I don't watch reality performance shows because the few I have seen in America are rather predictable, people dancing or doing weird stuff and whatnot.But today, via Google Plus, I got a chance to see Kseniya Simonova do sand art and animation on "Ukraine's Got Talent". The story she tells, in real time, using nothing but sand as her medium and then animating it...it's too ridiculously talented to describe. You don't have 8 minutes to kill, nor do I, but it is maybe the best 8 minutes you will spend today.
Ads for drugs today are kind of silly. Ads for erectile dysfunction, for example, are weird geological changes happening in real time that end up with a couple sitting in bathtubs in a forest somewhere, instead of being about what men really care about...Other products have 5 seconds of benefit followed by paragraphs of disclaimers about side effects ending with “see our ad in GOLF magazine”. Golf magazine must be read solely by really, really ill people. It wasn’t always like that. Ads used to be ridiculous exaggerations and downright funny.See the details here.
On the Internet, and certainly in science blogging, it may seem like biologists are more interested in culture wars with the religious fringe than talking about evolution.The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) and its Becoming Human outreach site instead conducts, interprets and publicizes scientific research and the sponsorship of scholarly interaction to advance scientific understanding of our origins and its contemporary relevance, which means it is a place people can get smarter. That's always good.Here's a screenshot on bipedalism but it's full of good stuff for people of all ages so give it a look:
On August 6th 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, posted a summary of the World Wide Web concept in the alt.hypertext newsgroup. It was a message that laid the groundwork for a new technology that revolutionized commerce and communication. You might also want to blame the WWW for spam but, no, the first spam message was in 1978 when Gary Thuerk, a marketing guy for Digital Equipment Corporation, annoyed 400 of the 2600 people on ARPAnet with an ALL CAPS message promoting a DEC seminar.
Wherever you are – anywhere in the world – on August 5th, contribute to science by taking a photo of a blank white piece of paper, outside in the sun, between 4:00 and 7:00 pm local time.Your photo will used to measure how much of the sun’s energy is reflected back from the Earth -- our planet's "albedo." It's one way scientists can monitor how much energy – and heat – is being absorbed by our planet.Read more at ScienceForCitizens.netHere is what you need to do:On August 5, 2011, take a photo between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm local time.Put a white piece of paper on a flat surface. The white paper should fill 1/4 to 1/2 of the total view.
The DNA profile of serial killer Ted Bundy will be uploaded to a national database today, good news for future episodes of "CSI" on television - and maybe some actual CSI people in the field.
What is the world coming to when a man can't even split atoms in his own kitchen any more? Richard Handl said he has always been attracted to physics and chemistry and so he decided to do a little citizen science. It was no secret, he even kept a blog about it. In it, he described how he managed a minor meltdown at home but there were no dangerous radiation levels.When he figured he might be doing something illegal - Sweden is progressive and tolerant but they are not the ACLU - he wrote the Sweden's Radiation Authority and they replied to the lovable scamp by sending the police. What did they find? Radium, americium and uranium so they arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material.
Scientists have discovered a fossilized skull of a tree-climbing ape dating back about 20 million years while looking for fossils in the remnants of an extinct volcano in Karamoja, a semi-arid region in Uganda's northeastern corner.Preliminary studies determined the tree-climbing herbivore was roughly 10-years-old when it died. Uganda's junior minister for tourism, wildlife and heritage said the skull was a remote cousin of the Hominidea Fossil Ape.
A drought has left the OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo State Park of West Texas almost empty, except for stagnant, dead fish that have made the water a deep red.Credit: Texas Parks and Wildlife Inland Fisheries--San Angelo, and it's a lot more red now.
A piece of debris from NASA's space shuttle Columbia has been discovered in Texas, eight years after the 2003 disaster that destroyed the spacecraft and killed its seven-astronaut crew during re-entry.The debris is a round aluminum power reactant storage and distribution tank from Columbia and was discovered in an exposed area of Lake Nacogdoches, in Nacogdoches, Texas, about 160 miles northeast of Houston.
