[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Friendly fungi could revolutionize rice farming [Mad Science]
- By engineering a strain of symbiotic fungus, researchers have massively increased the growth rate of rice, and may help stave off the specter of global shortages of phosphates, which are essential minerals for plants.
- And now, 1000+ vintage space photos and concept illustrations [Space Porn]
- Flickr user ParkerNow has alerted us to his massive collection of old-school NASA photos, drawings, and computer graphics. This is the motherlode of space porn. It's not unlike having Buzz Aldrin sing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to you.
- Why is total darkness colored blue in the movies? [Optics]
- Why do colors change as it gets darker? Why do we associate dark blues with pitch black night? For the answer, let's look at the Purkinje Color Effect.
- Six or so degrees of great geniuses…and Kevin Bacon. [Infographic]
- How is Mary Shelley linked to Buckminister Fuller? What tied Mark Twain to Pablo Picasso? What's Kevin "Hollow Man" Bacon's connection to Samuel Beckett? Consult this chart. (Say what you will, but Tremors was transcendent).
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