[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- New bacterial species discovered in the Titanic wreck
- A brand-new bacterial species has been found aboard the RMS Titanic, 3.8 km below the ocean surface.
- Secret US space plane lands itself
- After seven months in space, the US military's X-37B became the first US craft to land autonomously from orbit. But what was its mission?
- Bookslut | The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie des Jardins
- I have learned to accept my deficiencies in the area of science history, however I was pretty shocked recently by how very much I do not know while reading [this book...] Happily Des Jardins is here to enlighten on all the female scientists we likely have heard little or nothing about and she does it with style and panache…
All of these women are fascinating and their contribution to some of the greatest scientific and engineering achievements of our time can not be overstated. Her scholarship alone would be worthy of our notice (and the copious source notes are much appreciated) but it is the engaging style of The Madame Curie Complex that truly makes it sing. …She doesn’t tell us we must know about these women; she makes us delighted to learn about them.
- Invention Traps Mysterious Antimatter
- The trouble with studying antimatter is keeping it around.
- The Twitter Hulks
- There are an increasing number of Twitter accounts written as if The Incredible Hulk were passionate about topics other than anger and smashing. Here's a sampling of the Twitter Hulks and their tweets…
[Several choice quotes, but this is my quote of the day. -L]
Editor Hulk: "HULK LIKE OXFORD COMMA VERY MUCH. HULK WANT TO DATE, BUT OXFORD COMMA ONLY GO OUT IN GROUPS OF THREE OR MORE."
- Quality Hate Mail
- [Kung Fu Monkey - by Rogers]
Seriously, people, if you're going to do hate mail for a show, this is the GOLD STANDARD.
…I love you. Seriously. You'l be happy to know that the producers of the show are now addressing each other as "Fuckneck" in all internal correspondences.
- Bunnies On My Cat
- [Daily Squee - Cute Baby Animals]
Cynthia: ”Our cat Mister Gallager is so fat and neutral that he barely reacts to a bunch of baby rabbits piling up on him.”
- Google eBookstore Opens with 3 Million Titles, Free Android and iOS Reader Apps
- Google's made an effort to offer up lots of modern, popular books at reasonable price, but there are also a lot of free books in the collection, culled from Google's scanning of more than 15 million items in library archives.
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- Stickers That Remind You Where Electricity Comes From: Hamsters – Design – GOOD
- Hu2 Design makes these fantastic wall stickers that remind people where electricity actually comes from: Hamsters and pinwheels and coal.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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