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Bionic Rats Could Lead To Brain Implants In Humans
The psychology department of Tel Aviv University in Israel is attempting to replace part of the brain of rats with microchips. The chip would replicate damaged or destroyed parts of the brain....
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Job Opening: Personal/Technical Assistant for Stephen Hawking
Image via digitaltrends.com What capable geek wouldn’t jump at this opportunity? Digitaltrends reports that famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, posted an informal ad on his website last week...
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The World Of Tomorrow, Today!
Check this out. This is absolutely phenomenal. It’s a piece that was originally published in the Ladies’ Home Journal in 1900 and catalogues changes, both large and small, that the magazine believed...
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Study Reveals SpongeBob Will Rot Your Brain
We’ve all heard the phrase “television will rot your brain,” but now a study performed by Angeline Lillard from the University of Virginia seeks to provide empirical data that proves the phrase’s...
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Science Channel Explores Twisted Realities In New Show: Dark Matter
Image Discovery.com What do UFO’s, zombies, death rays, monkeys, mind control, and military experimentation all have in common? I’m not sure either, but it sounds like an interesting piece of science...
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Even more, Bonus Points 2.0!
Welcome back to Bonus Points, where we scrape the creme of yon frothing Internet to save you having to hunt down all the awesome yourself. This week was particularly fruitful with a metric ton of cool...
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Manga Guide to Relativity
What better way to learn abstract concepts than with an abstract art form? Geeky publisher No Starch Press has published this fun manga guide to learning Einstein’s theories of general and special...
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Bonus Points 2.0: The Scotsman Strikes Back
After a brief hiatus, I’m proud to announce the triumphant return of Bonus Points, your source for the latest and greatest tidbits of geek/nerd/gamer badassery from around the web. Exhibit A: the...
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Happy Pi Day!
Delicious math... Today is the 22nd annual day to celebrate the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. The first version of Pi was discovered as early as ancient Babylonia. March 14th,...
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Science Meets Art In Places & Spaces: Mapping Science
This would look great on my wall. Wired reports on this year’s winners of a scientific art exhibit spanning ten years. Places and Spaces: Mapping Science is a ten year running competitive art exhibit...
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Watch the Final Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery Live!
Today marks the final return of NASA’s most frequently used space shuttle, STS-133, a.k.a. Space Shuttle Discovery. Estimated time of landing is at 11:57:26a ET. Watch live via Ustream or NASA TV. If...
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She blinded me…with SCIENCE!
The Smithsonian Channel is having a month-long series of shows about Women in Science, to coincide with Women’s history month. The episodes will feature some of the world’s greatest female scientists...
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DIY Space Experiment: NASA-MAKE Space Technology Competition
photo courtesy of Makemagazine.com MAKE magazine, Teachers in Space, and NASA’s Emerging Commercialization Space Office (ECSO) are collaborating to hold the first MAKE Challenge. Students will submit...
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Be nerdy. Save the world.
Image courtesy of rpgnow.com In case you missed it, Christchurch, New Zealand got hit by a 6.7 mag earthquake on Tuesday. The city was in the middle of recovering from a series of pounding storms and...
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Super Bowl XLV: Madden Foresees Cheesy Tears
The Da Vinci Code can suck it. The 2008 Super Bowl was probably the best single NFL game I’ve seen in my adult life. It’s also the only time Madden NFL incorrectly predicted the winner. That’s right,...
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Stonehenge Answers?
Was Stonehenge built using carved wooden balls? Andrew Young, a student at Exeter University in the U.K. thinks so. Young notice carved stone balls near other Neolithic stone circles. Upon...
View ArticleTime Lapse Of the Week: Fungi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scPOQC_Lpgo&feature=player_embedded An awesome clip from BBC Planet Earth shows time lapse footage of fungi growing in the tropics. The video clip ends with the...
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Albino Redwoods
Albino Redwoods, or “ghost trees”, are very rare – there may be only 25 of them in the world. These trees lack chlorophyll and are thus unable to make their own food. They survive on the energy...
View ArticleMath Geek Fact Of the Day
The math geek in me is delighted to know that the first few power of 5 are really interesting! Apparently, their digits can be rearranged to show the formula for their value: 25 = 52 125 = 51 + 2 625 =...
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Holy Cow! Amazing Thunderstorm Image
There’s not a lot to say about this photo from National Geographic except WOW! Growing up in Wyoming, I know that weather in the mountain west can be intense. Thunderstorms roll through on a daily...
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