Wow

Let's step into a brave new world...

Good Science

I found an oldish example of a WONDERFUL science article, illustrating (to me at least) why science can be exciting. So want to know how bees are connected to quantum fields?

Where are we going?

Wow, this sounds like so many science fiction books I've read

Virtual Twins

A good NYT article on the study of virtual twins (I had never heard of this before), a new thread in the nature-v-nurture debate.

AWESSSOOOOME

Wired's top 10 physics videos!!!!!!!!

I've been aware of this site for a while but haven't posted about it

If you like graphs check out this article and the site it links to.

Archeological Discovery

Mayan underworld "discovered" (I'll be looking for independent confirmation of this). I just have one questions: how soon will the Indian Jones movie arrive?

New developments in solar tech

I wasn't going to post about this because there's been some skepticism from the scientific community but I haven't seen an outright refutation of the science yet so I might as well post. From MIT a "major" new development in solar energy storage.

New diseases

I remember in my college biology class my teacher talked about new forms of disease emerging has demographics changes. I don't think contagious cancer will be a problem for us soon, but imagine how horrible it would be if it came. I've been following the Tasmanian Devil face cancer for a while and it's always deeply disturbed me. Just sit back and imagine what would happen if something like this happened to humans? Now Hapers has an excellent article on the subject.

Very creepy article about natural mind controling animals

This just gives me the shivers. I've heard about the parasite that controls sheep but I hadn't heard about most of the critters in this gallery. A critter that controls humans could make a great horror movie plot (and it sort of has, but most of them are about aliens controlling humans, not something from Earth).

I feel like this could be important but I'm not sure why

I feel like there's some opportunity for biomimicry devices or new technology after reading this but I can't see it yet. Anyone else?

LHC Comes online in August

I'll let an expert explain what the LHC's all about

TV linked to autism

Old post from Slate on a study showing the above. I haven't heard anything about this, has it been discredited?

Exciting developments in physics

So I've been keeping an eye on the debate over Garret Lisi's new theory of everything. It's been making waves in the popular science (not to be confused with the magazine) community. I think that's partially due to Lisi's personality and partially because his theory is cool. Unfortunately his talk at the TED conference does not appear to be available yet but I'm eagerly awaiting it. To slathe my thirst for more news I found this video on youtube. I also went and took a look at the actual paper that codifies the draft of his theory but couldn't make head nor tails of it. *sigh* I wish I could take a couple of years and learn enough maths to actually understand this but I think 'tis not to be.

Another disaster to prepare for, oh joy

From Sci-Am, who, along with Popular Science, occasionally publishes a scary article like this about some immanent disaster (during slow months I assume). Nonetheless a massive solar flare could really screw things up for our modern digital world.

Oil=dead dinosaurs right? WRONG

One thing that's astounded me for a while is the lack of knowledge about the nature and origins of oil. Check out KK's post on some of the current theories. I love his quote on bacteria: "In any case I am betting on bacteria as the creators of oil simply because I've learned to never bet against bacteria."