Tag Archives: Science and Technology
Preponderance of The Small
Pupil of a Macrobrachium amazonicum (freshwater shrimp) from a gallery of the 20 winning photographs from the 2006 Nikon Small World competition. This image is placed at #11, and appears on the second page of the article. Also from Discover … more…
God-spot discovered
I’m pretty sure I blogged about this at the first announcement of this experiment… yes indeed, in December 2003: Hard wired for God. Carmelite nuns had their brains mapped while they recalled experience of religious ecstasy. It looks as though … more…
Radical, efficient new engine design in the works
This looks like an extremely promising (and unexpected) development in the wonderful, wacky and probably doomed world of the internal combustion engine: Carmelo Scuderi, a Massachusetts engineer and inventor, started tinkering with the fundamentals of the internal combustion engine when … more…
Poincaré’s conjecture, Perelman’s prizes
As you may have gathered, the Poincaré Conjecture appears to have been proved by a reclusive Russian mathematician, Grigory “Grisha” Perelman, who failed to turn up to recieve his Fields medal – the Nobel prize of mathematics – on tuesday. … more…
Dark Matter ‘Official’, and The Pioneer Anomaly
This Slashdot post appears to announce some kind of empirical validation of the existence of Dark Matter, and (possibly) refuting the theories which held Dark Matter to be the result of misunderstanding the effects of gravitation at distance. The main … more…
Hard Wired For God
Also from Eliot, this article tells of Carmelite nuns agreeing to have their brains scanned while they attempt to recall the feeling on unio mystica in search of the neurophysiological seat of religious experience. A rather too-cute neologism has been … more…
Science and the Artist’s Book
I don’t remember who pointed this one out a week or so ago and I don’t have time right now to go trawling (apologies to whoever it was) but this online exhibition shows copies of landmark science texts along with … more…
A Fibonacci Fountain
A rather beautiful new fountain at the Maryland Science and Technology Center. Created as a mathematical sculpture by artist and mathematician Helaman Ferguson, the fountain is made up of more than 45 tons of Texas granite, layered in alternating colors … more…
The ElectriClerk
Ingenious retrofitting of a Macintosh SE with a 1923 Underwood manual typewriter (or should that be the other way around?)
Mitch Kapor’s Weblog: You’re Making a What?
Mitch Kapor’s Weblog: You’re Making a What? I realise I’m a few days behind the curve in blogging this now, but as you may have noticed I’ve been a bit busy with unruly code. Mitch Kapor (co-founder of EFF) has … more…