Posted in Animals, Comedy, Geek, Lolcats, tagged cat, engineer, Science, yodelling on June 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s been a very long time since a video made me laugh so much that I
(a) couldn’t breath
(b) cried
(c) almost peed myself
Background: I have a cat, and I’m married to an engineer. This video proves that cats are all alike, and engineers are also all alike…
Posted in Environment, Food, Latest world news, tagged food shortages, Science, viruses on June 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Looks like we might have to say goodbye to wheat products if the fears of a group of scientists are realized. These products include bread, cereals, cakes, and biscuits. A fungus that infects common wheat, Ug99, appears to be spreading around the world fast, and might quickly kill off one of the world’s largest cash [...]
Posted in Biology, Biotech, Human body, Science, Techno, tagged Human body, medicine, Science on November 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Philips–you know, the guys that make TVs–also happen to make hospital electronics, so it’s not just entertainment and lightbulbs. They’ve managed to invent a smart pill that is designed to not only release medication in certain parts of the body, but also monitor patients from the inside. The pill is still a prototype, but it [...]
Posted in Animals, Biology, Biotech, Fashion, Food, Insanity, Latest world news, Philosophy, Science, WTF, tagged coats, experiments, Fashion, Insanity, laboratory, Science, stem cells on November 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Scientists at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology have grown a leather coat from stem cells, which is all kinds “weird science”. They’ve even named the coat “victimless leather”. Despite the coat being so small, it’s…well…bizarre. We seem to have no problem in using leather from dead cattle (or other animals, for that matter), [...]
Posted in Animation, Biology, Human body, Psychology, Science, tagged Psychology, Science on October 28, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Try out this quick test at News.com.au to see if you’re left or right brained. Turns out I’m about as right-brained as they get (which by looking at the list they provide, I could have told you), but I’m still not certain how this works. The entire test consists of looking at an animation of [...]
Posted in Techno, tagged futuristic, GE, innovation, lights, OLED, Osram, Science on October 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Holy frak. It’s not every day you hear about something that makes you start dreaming up sci-fi inspired alternative realities and possible futures. GE’s OLED printing machine is one of those things.
The size of a semitrailer, the OLED printer coats an 8-inch wide plastic film with chemicals, then seals them with a layer of metal [...]
Posted in Biology, Biotech, Cool, Human body, Insanity, Latest world news, Science, TV, tagged biotechnology, cybernetics, cyborgs, doctor who, dr who, Human body, Science on October 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Scientists have found a way to create bio-batteries, similar to the electrocytic cells of electric eels and other such electric animals. The idea behind this is to power artificial limbs and internal machinery, but of course, the idea could be taken a step further and into the creation of “wetware”, or cybernetic implants. Mind you, [...]
Posted in Internet, Latest world news, Media, tagged Add new tag, behaviour, Food, Science on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
‘The big decisions in life are best made on a full stomach’, says this article in the Telegraph.
Skipping meals can lead to reduced levels of a brain chemical that helps to keep careless and impulsive behaviour in check. Equallly, a good meal can help prevent people behaving in a cranky, aggressive and unfair way by [...]
Posted in Cool, Environment, Science, tagged astrophysics, research, Science on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The brainy chaps at Lancaster University have managed to create something a lot like a universe the size of a marble. According to the article:
By placing helium in a state which most closely resembles the form it held at the beginning of the universe, scientists have created an opportunity for the gas to go through [...]
Posted in Animals, tagged Animals, Science on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
According to this Live Science article, scientists have discovered that insects use plants in much the same way that we telephones (What, you mean that they send incriminating text messages to each other?)
When a subterranean insect takes up residence below a plant, it settles in to feast on the plant’s roots. In order to alert [...]
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