Moonwalking Birdy
That bird has got it goin AWN! Go birdy! Go birdy! It's your bird-day! Go birdy! Birdy Diana, nah! Ok. No more groans. I'll stop now.
Another believer of Fractilism
http://kradeleet.com/?p=77 From the page: “Rudy (Rucker) is starting to think all this is more than just a nifty coincidence, that mathematics has just happened to stumble on a method of creating patterns that look just like so many natural patterns. In his latest post, he makes the suggestion that “God” could be a deterministic non-reversible class four paratime metaphysical cellular
A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science
via Union of Concerned Scientists From the site: “In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference
http://www.auri.org/news/ainjul01/05page.htm Electricity from cows? That’s right. Cow Power! Haubenschild Farms is the first Minnesota farm to produce “cow power.” The 760-cow family farm uses anaerobic manure digestion to produce methane for electricity. The waste digester supplies enough power to run the entire farm, plus 78 average homes.
Into the Autumn Fog
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SuperFractals
Michael Barnsley, a researcher and entrepreneur in fractal compression, has written the successor to Fractals Everywhere. The first edition of the book SuperFractals was published last month. The following is a quote from the editorial review on Amazon “Superfractals is the long-awaited successor to Fractals Everywhere, in which the power and beauty of Iterated Function Systems were introduced and applied
The Long Zoom – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08games.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Steven Johnson writes one of the most intelligent and interesting articles about Spore I’ve read so far. The beginning paragraph blows my mind and sets the stage for a fantastic description of the game we are all anxiously waiting for.
Biomedical Image Awards
Check out the Biomedical Image Awards gallery and vote for your favorite microscopic images. My favorites are this one and the image of aspirin crystals. Neat stuff!
At last: Just three cell types detect light in the eye
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-19196.html From the page: Putting to rest years of controversy, an international research team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has discovered that the eye’s job of detecting light is most likely carried out by just three cell types.
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Todd Siler
www.feldmangallery.com Todd Siler, trained in both science and the visual arts, will exhibit models and drawings derived from his studies and speculations on nuclear fusion reactor design. Delving into an area that science and technology so far have been unable to fully solve, Siler, in his new body of work, responds to one of the most monumental scientific challenges of