Primate Shame

mc.maricopa.edu

mc.maricopa.edu

Can’t we all just be primates?

The Periodic Table

I suppose we’re all familiar with this image:

periodic_table-familiar

But perhaps not with this one:

periodic-table-spiral-colors

What about this one?

periodic-table-circular

Or this one?

periodic-table-crookes

All of these and many, many more can be found here.  Tom Lehrer sings “The Periodic Table” here.

Obama Has Only 4 Years to Save the World

greencampus.harvard.edu

greencampus.harvard.edu

Tall Order for Mr. O

Dreams on Screens

dreamcollector.wordpress.com cartoon by toby

dreamcollector.wordpress.com cartoon by toby

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081211/sc_afp/sciencejapanbrainoffbeat_081211052641

When Is a Clone Not a Clone?

jang.com.pk
jang.com.pk

In a laboratory somewhere, an evil scientist is trying to create and grow viable human clones past infancy, and running out of room for the clone “rejects.”

Cure Cancer and Bury Big Oil at the Same Time

What is my body?

Body Swappers at Work

Body Swappers at Work

Body Swappers at Work

Body Swappers at Work

My favorite 18th century philosopher, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, defined his body as “That part of the world which I can change simply by thinking about it.”  Now experiments are underway to test this insight and replace it with a body of scientific laws.  Here is a paper about the results of one such experiment.  Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.

Relatively Obscure Emotional States

According to this article in Slate, brain scientists have recently begun to study an emotion they call “elevation.”  High-falutin’ rhetoric, like that associated with Barack Obama, can inspire it.  The closing paragraphs point out that when seen in other people, elevation can look ridiculous or disgusting.  Of course, the same is true of other emotions as well.  But we need all of them, if not always in the ways we get them.  So perhaps we need elevation too.

Wired with Sugar Water?

industryplayer.com

industryplayer.com

Is all life on Earth- known and unknown- “terrestrial”? Is all life not on Earth “extraterrestrial”?

Are we looking for other life or are we looking for other life as we know it?

MC2 = E

btinternet.com/~j.doyle/SR/Emc2/Basics.htm

btinternet.com/~j.doyle/SR/Emc2/Basics.htm

Quantum chromodynamics prove the theory of relativity in four dimensions.

So what’s all this about energy, mass, light, and Jim Doyle?