We hit double digits. Champagne all around!
In this episode: A timelapse video of the U.S.'s carbon footprint, a plan to turn pollution into DVDs (and fleece Al Gore?), a warning against nanotoxic socks, and a duel between two green-tech press releases.
Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez
We were down for a week there, but we're back, baby!
In this episode: The cutest animal ever to be trained to use tools in a laboratory setting; rogue Olympians whose genes may let them pass doping tests; suspended animation via sewer gas; and a another reason feel superior for buying that overpriced laptop (besides the fact that it fits in an envelope).
Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez
Somehow this simple comparison makes the moon landing seem so much more REAL on a human, experiential level. Brilliant move, NASA.
The map's gigantic - click here to view.
Kottke also has links to the moonwalks supered over a soccer pitch, and a movie backlot (for conspiracy-theorist types).
Yup, you read that right. If those fuzzy bastards get put on the Endangered Species List, it's bye-bye freedom, hello socialist police state.
...at least, that's what we learned a couple weeks ago at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change.
Thanks so much for all the name suggestions, everyone! However, we decided that this whole name-change plan was flawed from the get-go. Watch our rationalization below. And you can view all the name suggestions after the jump.
Also in this episode: the Hobbit controversy rages on, science+religion = new sins, and drugs in your tap water.
Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez
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It's true. You can even send a LOLcat/pi-punning e-card. That is, If you want to show what a colossal dorkasaurus you are.
The BBC has a fun article chock full of fun pi facts (e.g., today's also Einstein's birthday) and history (the current record for digits-computed is 1.24 trillion).
No seriously!
Just a few caveats: by "drink" I mean "inject", by "babies" I mean "umbilical cord", and by "your" I mean "rats".
(Oh, cut me some slack. How often does one get the chance to report science news in a death metal context?)
Hard details after the jump.
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Thanks so much for the massive outpouring of new name suggestions! Keep sending 'em. We're taking next week off, but then after that... a newly named show will emerge from the glistening chrysalis of the old.
And now, the all-apocalypse episode: a doomsday vault for seeds, tracking a killer asteroid, targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and contemplating a real-life Cylon attack.
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From the Inadvertent Findings Dept.:
Sony's robo-dog AIBO is just as good as a real dog at assuaging loneliness in nursing home residents. Could bona-fide robot caregivers be far off?
Here's my question: did the investigators control for the fact that most nursing homes are such soul-destroying places that residents could probably be "cheered up" by a #&*%ing pet rock, much less some cheesy plastic dog-droid?
Yes, let's find that sweet spot: the minimum possible threshold for maintaining our elderly folks' mental health combined with the mimimum number of biological beings involved. Hell, why not just swap out AIBOs for Roombas? Granny gets "quality time" AND the floor gets cleaned! She'll never know the difference!
Time to cue up The Who on my iPod.
The Nobel-prize-winning physicist and bestselling author might be the heir to Richard Feynman, but can the guy catch a break here people?
He was one of the most vocal supporters of the Superconducting Supercollider, that big, bad Texan atom smasher that, had it been built, would have made the LHC look like its prison bitch.
We all know how THAT turned out.
Well, thanks to NASA, Weinberg must have deja vu these days. Read on.
Welcome to a very special episode of BlossomThe Monitor.
This week: Rounding up of the best stories from the AAAS annual meeting, questioning social networks, and an open call to viewers-- help us rename this show!
No, really. "The Monitor" needs a new name--preferably one that actually shows up in a Google search. Send your ideas to help.SciAm@gmail.com !
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What's next, goldfish on LinkedIN? No, really, a company called Botanicalls (zing) has figured out how to port their "plants that can phone you" technology to Twitter.
The idea is that the plant hits you on your burner when it needs watering.
I'm torn about this. On the one hand, a service like this is probably the only way I'd ever keep a plant alive. On the other, having ambulatory, sentient beings in my friends-list is taxing enough already.
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Cambridge University physics prof Neil Turok impressed the folks at TED (and vexed the anti-string-theory contingent) by positing a new notion of the universe's birth - namely, that it never had one.
The Big Bang, he says, is just one of many "bangs" in an infinite cycle of expansion and contraction between string-theoretical objects called "branes." Dark energy pulls two branes together and -- Ka-BLAMO -- they "separate and expand to form galaxies and stars."
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Your weekly dose of science news, The Monitor, once again raises its ugly head. (No wait, that's just the Paul Janka lookalike in our second segment. Or the Predator in our third. Hey, it's that kind of week.)
In this episode: 3 new dinosaurs discovered (only 2 of which are cool), what hotornot.com tells us about the psychology of love, a disturbing map of human impact on the world's oceans, and a "virtual patient" that looks like Operation on steroids.
Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez
Actually they're red blood cells treated with an antibiotic. But isn't my description just so much more delicious?
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