September 2011
2 posts
Google Correlate →
livejamie:
Draw lines on an empty graph and Google will try to find search trends that match
August 2011
1 post
Assume Your Assumptions Are Wrong →
July 2010
1 post
The Creativity Crisis | Newsweek →
“With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.”
October 2009
1 post
“Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of...”
– Interview with Justice Ginsburg pre-Sotomayor confirmation, where she talks about women in law, in the workforce, and in society.
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
2 posts
Top 10 Scientific Music Videos | Wired Science →
“So many decades ago, it was words appearing letter by letter on a small computer...”
– Jon Carroll has Twitter now. Sees tweets apprering like “a ham radio tuned to 1,000 stations simultaneously.” Is nostalgic.
June 2009
3 posts
America's poor donate more, in percentage terms,... →
What’s more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does.
Wolfram|Alpha: Making the world's knowledge... →
Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
Search ideas:
structure of aspirin cos(2x) pka of acetic acid sun vs. moon weather in san francisco
March 2009
1 post
Search the 1828 Edition of Webster's American... →
COMPUTER, n. One who computes; a reckoner; a calculator.
February 2009
2 posts
AmericanRhetoric.com →
This website archives famous speeches and makes them available for free to the public. All those famous speeches you’ve only heard bits and pieces of? Find them here, and finish hearing them.
“Ironically, then, the belief in a just world may take the place of a genuine...”
– Essay explaining the social psychology concept called The Just World Theory.
January 2009
1 post
Waking up superbugs may destroy their drug... →
1/16/2009. New Scientist. “The protein that enables some bacteria to become dormant and avoid the effects of antibiotics has been identified – sleep may no longer be an escape option.”
December 2008
3 posts
AIDS - A New Disease's Deadly Odyssey →
February 6, 1983. New York Times.
This article details the medical knowledge of AIDS in 1983, and its history from its first appearance in 1979. If you want to see the news articles about AIDS before it even had a name, type in “Kaposi’s sarcoma” into the NYT search and start reading oldest first.
“The idea of using chemical isotopes to combat ageing may be new, but nature may...”
– “Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?” NewScientist Health. 11/27/2008.
That is weird.
November 2008
1 post
“Barack Obama, our sexy, hot-lady-marrying, jump-shot-making president-to-be is...”
– Washington City Paper. “Obama: First Trekkie President.” 11/7/2008.
This article amuses me. :)
September 2008
10 posts
Watch“Imagining the Tenth Dimension.” Flash video explaining multiple dimensions.
Stem cells block stroke damage, but not just by... →
Scientific American. 9/15/2008.
“The immature cells [the stem cells] trigger adult brain cells to switch gears and block a stroke-induced immune response that causes nerve damage.” They prevent further damage.
“Alright, so how does cancer avoid the internal clock? It stops time. The...”
– “Targeting Telomeres and Cancer for Dummies.” A concise explanation of cancer for the interested layperson by The Science Creative Quarterly.
How to Extract DNA from Anything Living →
Thank you, University of Utah! You need a source of DNA, water, table salt, a blender, enzyme powder (such as meat tenderizer), and rubbing alcohol.
FairVote.org | Who Picks the President? (2004...
Among our findings:
More money was spent on television advertising in Florida during the period covered than in 45 states and the District of Columbia combined.
More than half of all campaign resources were dedicated to just three states— Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Iowans are the most coveted voters in the country.
18 states saw neither a candidate visit nor recieved a cent of...
Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases... →
Science Daily. 9/2/2008.
The North Pole becomes an 'island' for the first... →
Daily Mail. 9/2/2008.
“Many scientists believe that the mass of ice that forms a jagged circle around the North Pole could vanish altogether in the summer by 2030.”
“The United States economy has grown faster, on average, under Democratic...”
– New York Times. 8/30/2008. “Economic View - Is History Siding With Obama’s Economic Plan?”
August 2008
2 posts
Scientists Say We Can See Sound →
LiveScience. 8/18/2008.
“Researchers trained monkeys to locate a light flashed on a screen. When the light was very bright, they easily found it; when it was dim, it took a long time. But if a dim light made a brief sound, the monkeys found it in no time — too quickly, in fact, than can be explained by the old theories.”
Judge says UC schools can deny science credit for... →
SF Chronicle. 8/13/2008.
Bad news for advocates of creationism and intelligent design; good news for the scientific community.
“A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution. “Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of free...
July 2008
10 posts
Licking your wounds: Scientists isolate compound... →
Biology News Net. 7/26/2008.
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender →
It estimated my gender with 92% likelihood, correctly.
“Even in liberal LA, however, there is an element of political antipathy in this...”
– TimesOnline.co.uk. 7/28/2008. “Pedal power challenges car culture as cyclists seize Los Angeles freeways.”
Mystery of Why Northern Lights "Dance" May Be... →
Scientific American. 7/24/2008.
WatchJibJab. “Time for Some Campaignin’.” Election 2008 comedy.
Comment: The developing world needs its own... →
NewScientist. 7/9/2008.
“The most vital debates at scientific conferences rarely take place during the formal sessions. At the World Health Organization (WHO) meeting of African health ministers in Algiers last month, the hot topic during the lunch breaks was the desperate need to improve the state of academic publishing in developing countries. This might seem a surprising choice, given...
“The Journal of Food Protection found, for example, that in the presence of...”
– New York Times. 7/1/2008.
Rising cost of food means shrinking packages →
TIME. “America’s Shrinking Groceries.” 6/27/2008.
“People are just more sensitive to changes in price than changes in quantity,” says Harvard Business School Professor John Gourville, who studies consumer decision-making. “Most people can tell you how much a box of cereal costs, but they have no clue how much is actually in it.”
Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public... →
The Onion: America’s Finest News Source. 11/29/2000.
“Expanding mass transit isn’t just a good idea, it’s a necessity,” Holland said. “My drive to work is unbelievable. I spend more than two hours stuck in 12 lanes of traffic. It’s about time somebody did something to get some of these other cars off the road.”
June 2008
19 posts
Everything seemingly is spinning out of control →
New York Times (AP). 6/22/2008.
“Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism…”
This article makes our problems sound so legendary. I kind of like it; it’s a bizarre sort of...
Guess what we got today?
Nintendo!
Wii!
Nintendo?
Oui!
Yay!
Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their... →
Princeton University. 6/9/2008.
“Lacking a brain or even a primitive nervous system, how is a single-celled bacterium able to pull off this feat? While higher animals can learn new behavior within a single lifetime, bacterial learning takes place over many generations and on an evolutionary time scale…”
“They even hired doctors to convince mothers that bananas were good for children.”
– New York Times Op/Ed. 6/18/2008. “Yes, We Will Have No Bananas.”
Obama on the Nile: Friedman comments on global... →
New York Times Op/Ed. Thomas L. Friedman. 6/11/2008.
Every interview seems to end with the person I was interviewing asking me: “Now, can I ask you a question? Obama? Do you think they will let him win?”
