Science comedian Brian Malow with a great bit on evolution.
Chewbacca Can Bend Rainbows
•January 31, 2012 • 3 CommentsA lovely card, recently received from a dear friend.
Which was accompanied by a note that read:
Humans have to use science to bend nature to their will, wookiees do not.
Simply priceless.
Photograph by Metousiosis.
BCA Assay
•January 29, 2012 • 2 CommentsAnother addition to the #hipsterscience photography meme – A colorful BCA assay for total protein in clinical blood samples.
Photograph by Metousiosis.
A Pulseless Heart
•January 26, 2012 • Leave a CommentFocus Forward Films highlights the extraordinary vision of doctors Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, from the Texas Heart Institute, in their effort to show that “physiology can be supported without a pulse,” by replacing a dying man’s heart with a device capable of providing a steady stream of blood to the body, ”like water from a garden hose.”
[Via Texas Medical Center]
Aurora and the Largest Solar Storm in 6 Years
•January 25, 2012 • 4 CommentsAP provides this beautiful time lapse video, captured last weekend, of the Aurora over Trondheim, Norway, manifested from the largest solar storm since 2005.
Debunking 10 Common Misconceptions
•January 24, 2012 • Leave a CommentC.G.P. Grey shines the light of reality on 10 popular myths in merely 4 minutes.
Ferguson’s Unseen Doctor Who Opening
•January 22, 2012 • Leave a CommentAfter watching far too many episodes of Doctor Who last night, I simply have to re-post this . . .
It’s all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.
TED: Drew Berry – Animations of Unseeable Biology
•January 22, 2012 • Leave a CommentDrew Berry presents some of his advances with computer graphics, in this TED talk, in order to illuminate the unseeable biology occurring every second in every cell within your body.
Metousiosis 22Jan12 Links
•January 22, 2012 • Leave a CommentThe weekend link dumb:
- Marketers of acai products fined $1.5 million for false claims and unfair billing
- How Airplanes Fly – The Real Story (With Experimental Verification!)
- The rebranding of CAM as “harnessing the power of placebo”
- The Big Picture: Haiti slow to recover from 2010 quake
- The New England Journal of Medicine Sinks a Bit Lower
- Nobel laureate, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, takes aim at pseudoscience in India
- Chinese Government investing $1b to boost TCM industry
- Free Thought Event: Reason Rally March 24 IN D.C.
- Austerity For Dummies: A 3-Minute Guide To A Very Bad (And Very Powerful) Idea
- Craig Venter Explains How Pond Scum Will Save the World
- World Map of All Wars and Conflicts Happening In 2012
- Dr. Phil follows Dr. Oz’s descent into psychic woo
- Why skeptics should embrace political advocacy — and how they can do it
- NIH Director Francis Collins doesn’t understand the problem with CAM
- Facilitated Communication – Again – in the HuffPo
- Soapy: an even better anti-SOPA browser plugin
- Obama Administration Lost Big at the Supreme Court
- How the new ‘Protecting Children’ bill puts you at risk
- James Webb Space Telescope: A year of achievement and success
- 10 Stubborn Body Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science
Winter . . .
•January 22, 2012 • 1 CommentFinally, now in the later half of January, Boston was dusted with 1-2 inches of snow in what seems to be a rather bleak winter. Below is Evans Way Park with the new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the background.
Photograph by Metousiosis.
I Don’t Know…
•January 21, 2012 • Leave a Comment
The Nature of Phi
•January 21, 2012 • Leave a CommentVi Hart expands upon her pervious video on the Fibonacci sequence to explore the role of phi (1.618o3399… or The Golden Ratio) in nature.
Although there are a lot of myths out there regarding phi, it remains my favorite irrational number.
Dumpster Diving
•January 20, 2012 • Leave a CommentDaniel Klein highlights the life of someone who dumpster dives in order to sustain his family, and thus emphasizes the great abundance, waste, and inefficiency in todays US food market.
The Joke That Is The Super PAC
•January 20, 2012 • Leave a CommentJon Stewart and Stephen Colbert make a complete mockery of the US regulations concerning the coordination of Super PACs with their presidential candidates.
Given the power of Super PACs and that provided to corporations through Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission there is little question of the government’s progression towards the monetization of democracy.
The Voyager Probes
•January 19, 2012 • Leave a CommentTime Magazine provides this succinct overview of the fight paths of the two Voyager space probes, as they are destined to break the heliopause and enter interstellar space, on their now 34 year, 11-12 billion mile, voyage. These are the spacecrafts that contain those glorious golden records with extraterrestrial greetings from Earth.
