Why ligers are huge [Gene Expression]
Believe it or not, tigers are not the largest big cat. Ligers are (you might remember ligers from Napoleon Dynamite). Why? It has to do with the weirdness that occurs when you…
Improv Everywhere Takes 2,000 Invisible Dogs for a Walk in Brooklyn
Shared by Chris Tackett
mindfuckers.
photo by Allison
Improv Everywhere agents took 2,000 invisible dogs for a walk today in Brooklyn.
This is a blog post from Laughing…
KQED, UC Berkeley J-School Prepares to Launch “Bay Area News Project”
guest post by Violet Blue
photo by Scott Beale
In a completely non-ironic and potentially exciting move, KQED and the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism…
Pentagon Strategy
Near-Death In An Avalanche
An incredible video from the helmet of a back-country skier in Alaska. Full description here. A snippet:
He was only buried for 4 and a half minutes which is incredibly short. In that…
Dissent Of The Day
A reader writes:
I’ve been following your posts on theodicy and it dovetails with something that’s happening in my own life right now.
A cousin just died last Friday of ALS - Lou Gehrig’s…
Reclaiming the night sky: incredible astrophotography by Babak Tafreshi [SciencePunk]
From New Scientist:
Iranian photographer Babak Tafreshi has won the 2009 Lennart Nilsson scientific photography prize. According to the award panel, his images “reclaim a night sky that most…
Paintings by David Imlay
Room for Debate: What's Wrong With the National Parks?
How the parks should be managed in light of the threats they face.
High Tech Airships Making a Comeback
Airships are making a comeback with the US military, which could be good news for civilian applications. The military has the deep pockets for research and development, but then, once these…
Feathered Dino Predates Oldest Bird
Fossils of a feathered dinosaur may help scientists’ understanding of bird evolution.
Pandora: From Near-Death to Profitability in a Year
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summary: Pandora may just be hitting on that much-talked-about but mostly elusive online advertising Holy Grail: Ads that users actually want. If they pull it off, and…
Cursor kites fly over Brooklyn, pointing to what?
The Red Arrow Project, a kite installation by Jennifer Fisher and Christian Cerrito, made its debut at the Art Under the Bridge Festival in DUMBO this weekend. The kites are large red…
The Most Dangerous Nuclear Facility in the Middle East
There is no good evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It has offered to allow regular International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of the newly announced facility near Qom, which…
Thousands of Texans Attend ‘Largest Free Clinic Ever Held In The United States’ To Get Health Care
Over the weekend, thousands of Texans attended what is being called the “largest free clinic ever held in the United States” to get health care they otherwise could not afford. ABC-13, a local…
