By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] You can read about science all you like, but until you see it in live action you never grasp the little moments that fill you with wonder. Here is such a moment for me… This past semester my professor showed us the following video of a neutrophil (a […]
A man living in Santa Fe, New Mexico claims that his neighbor’s wi-fi is making him sick. According to CNN, Arthur Firstenberg believes that since his neighbor moved in next door, he’s been experiencing a sickness and side effects so severe he’s had to go homeless entirely to escape the discomfort. Firstenberg cannot go to […]
Everyone knows the story of how Isaac Newton came to develop his understanding of gravity, but now a contemporary account of the incident is available to read in its original form. It’s part of a series of documents published by the Royal Society, a British scientific institution. Unlike most such projects, this involved publishing scans […]
Courtesy of BBC news this morning, two particularly interesting stories that mix science, history, and… cosmetics. First up, let’s talk about eyeliner. Yes, eyeliner. There may be no look as timeless and as oft-copied as the Cleopatra eye, made famous in Egyptian art, culture, and mythology. And while it’s certainly aesthetically pleasing (I’m a personal […]
I don’t know about you guys, but as far as I’m concerned, this is going to be THE IMAX movie to see this year. Just imagine, a trip in space… to fix the Hubble telescope… in 3D! Through the power of IMAX® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to journey through distant galaxies to explore […]
At Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre. A few of the topics he speaks on include aggression, theory of mind, the golden rule and pleasure.
In the following video presentation, neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it.
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] In the world of microbes, genetic material is free to move from organism to organism. In more complex life, especially species that diverged on the tree of life long ago, this process becomes more and more rare. Scientists can now take genes and manually transplant them from one species […]
30 is the answer for all of today’s questions. That will be all. And here is all of them for the next 1011010 years: 01/01/10 01/10/10 01/11/10 10/01/10 10/10/10 10/11/10 11/01/10 11/10/10 11/11/10 01/01/11 01/10/11 01/11/11 10/01/11 10/10/11 10/11/11 11/01/11 11/10/11 11/11/11 Thank you!
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.