This summer, after being awarded a residency, I am going to be spending 19 days on Isle Royale National Park, on lake Superior. It is the location of the longest running study of a predatory mammal and its prey in the U.S. I will be on foot with no technology and likely will not be [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2011 by Ned
Filed under: Art, Beginnings & Endings, Hollow Men, Philosophical, Science | 3 Comments »
I saw this video on Nature on PBS several months ago, and PBS recently posted the whole thing. I want to order it so I can watch it with better resolution. I know you guys will likely not watch the whole fifty minutes, but you should consider it. Wow.
Posted on January 18th, 2011 by Ned
Filed under: Science, YouTube | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Tobias
Filed under: Science | 1 Comment »
Years, that is. It’s the anniversary of Galileo discovering Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto orbiting Jupiter. Read more about it here and here.
Posted on January 7th, 2010 by Tobias
Filed under: Science, Time | 1 Comment »
I got one. Anyone else? Care to muse and discuss? In this early stage with it, I’m finding the Kindle surprisingly readable and fun. In its way, it’s making reading "new." At the same time, I find myself gravitating toward nonfiction with it, rather than the more traditionally "literary" genres of fiction and (certainly) poetry. [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Shotts
Filed under: Books, Holidays, Science | 3 Comments »
There is an article about the Colony Collapse Disorder in the Times, here.
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Ned
Filed under: Science | No Comments »
Thanks Ned for posting the Story of Stuff. I think that it is largely preaching to the choir (with emphasis on “preach”) on this blog but still it is good to know that there are people out there fighting the good fight. I’ve been thinking about these issues over the last few days. I hope [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by J.E.
Filed under: Books, Philosophical, Science | 5 Comments »
With the HP fervor going around, perhaps there is no one out there to read this anyway. I have been haunted by a few things from a discussion we had on this blog months ago now, especially after reading Mountains Beyond Mountains. The first was Peters statement that everyting we do, we do to serve [...]
Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Ned
Filed under: Books, Ethics & Morality, Hollow Men, Science | 10 Comments »
I declare this the king of Goldberg machines: http://baynhamtyers.com/contraptionII.html Cocaine + Corn=http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=54522&in_page_id=2 Our childhood dreams are a reality: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4217989.html The little red spot: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=452130&in_page_id=1965 J.E.’s next clock: http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/18/modern-flip-clock-updates-an-old-standard/ The new Transformers movie is already obsolete: http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/more_than_meets_the_eye Nature already had it figured out: http://www.sycamorefan.com/fan/feature/features.html
Posted on June 28th, 2007 by Tobias
Filed under: Art, Engineering, Hollow Men, Nostalgia, Science | 1 Comment »
From BBC News: Female Chimps Can Become Killers Scientists in Scotland have discovered that female chimpanzees can be just as violent as their male counterparts. The St Andrews University psychologists found examples of female chimps killing the offspring of incoming mothers, previously regarded as a male trait. The Fife team has been studying chimps in [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2007 by J.E.
Filed under: Science | No Comments »
For the next few Mondays I’m going to try to post a science related. Today I’ve expurgated Salon’s review of Daniel H. Wilson’s “Where’s My Jetpack”. You can also read the complete review but if you are not a Salon subscriber you may have to watch an advert. Staring out of my window in Manhattan’s [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2007 by J.E.
Filed under: Books, Science | 1 Comment »
R.I.P.?
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Tobias
Filed under: Science | 15 Comments »
From Damn Interesting (one of my favorite ways of wasting time on the internet). I saw this for the first time two months ago and the images have set up shop in the same part of my brain that houses the 500 kV video I posted last month. I find these images sublime and hypnotic [...]
Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by J.E.
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OK, so here is my first post in a while- a two-parter. I have recently been thinking in systems theories, particularly as they partain to groups like ours. How closely does life imitate art, I ponder. In a system, each part of that system serves a function and hopefully the whole of the system is [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2007 by Pete
Filed under: Hollow Men, Movies, Philosophical, Science, TV | 9 Comments »
Stand back. This is what 500,000 volts looks like when it’s angry.
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by J.E.
Filed under: Engineering, Science | 4 Comments »
J. E. is watching