Top tiny creations – New Scientist
Nanoguitar! Party on! Excellent!
NASA – Saturns Strange Hexagon
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia09188.html Thanks, Paul (aka avmoor) for the link! This rocks my world!
Evolution quote on Starbucks cup
Link “Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is a scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America’s public schools? Yes, let’s do — not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism ans the Hindu idea that Earth rests on
Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting
Slashdot God gave rock and roll to everyone, but he gave metal to the gifted! *headbang*
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/299112 Rafflesia arnoldii is the largest flower on the planet; its blossom attains a diameter of nearly a meter and can weigh up to 11 kg. The rest of the site contains interesting facts and marvels about the earth.
Medieval Islamic Tile-Makers Were Master Mathematicians
Link no longer available. Historians have long assumed that sheer hard work with the equivalent of a ruler and compass allowed medieval craftsmen to create the ornate star-and-polygon tile patterns that cover mosques, shrines and other buildings that stretch from Turkey through Iran and on to India. Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math
Chinese Scientists Learn to Control Pigeons
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/chinese-scientists-learn-to-control-pigeons-239987.php From the page: “Who needs robots when you can control actual animals?”
Physics News Update
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/810.html From the page: “Heartbeat and breathing cycles can become synchronized, a new study shows. Looking for patterns in the sequence of human heartbeats is a much studied subject; evidence for pattern-revealing characteristics such as chaos and fractal or spiral geometry have been sought.”
Diatom Art
Diatom are single-celled photosynthetic organisms, one of several groups of algae that biomineralize silicate. They inhabit both fresh and marine water. Deposition of the silicate creates rigid cell walls which can take on a complex variety of geometric shapes. In victorian times, hobbyists and enthusiasts would create arranged slides, microscopic pictures only a millimeter or two across, made out of
The new, old alternative fuel – Algae?
via www.venturebeat.com/ Could algae be the alternative fuel source we are looking for?
World’s Thinnest DVD Discs
http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/article/worlds-thinnest-dvd-discs-04211420/ Let’s give it up for nanoimprint technology! Welcome back, floppy!
Diatom Art
Created with butterfly scales
Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery: The Anti-Cancer Agent Collection
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/pharm/cancer/cancer.html
SimpleSimulation
http://erik.rainey.name/applets/SimpleSimulation/ A reproduction of the experiments of Stephen Wolfram in “A New Kind of Science”… a simple 8 bit Cellular Autonoma Simulation.
Rudy Rucker on GigaDial Public
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rudyrucker Interviews and talks by author Rudy Rucker, who has a Ph.D. in the theory of infinite sets and is also a well-known science-fiction writer who enjoys painting.