February 2012
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“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete.
Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry.
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The Big Bang for Beginners →
Ethan Siegel, in typically wonderful fashion, lays out the basis for the Big Bang, beginning with the most basic astronomical observations of an expanding universe to the intricacies cosmic radiation.
If you want to know how the Big Bang theory came to be, start here.
Because we started here.
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - The Atlantic →
A tiny parasite called Toxoplasma gondii might be driving people crazy. That’s what Jaroslav Flegr believes, anyway. For years he has pursued the odd, yet increasingly realistic theory that this brain-dwelling parasite could be infecting humans via household cats and affecting the way they behave. Toxo literally changes the way you produce dopamine, a key neurotransmitter.
It’s not...
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jesusvelarday asked: Do you think time travel is...
scinerds:
Not at the moment, no. In the future, maybe.
Time travel is already possible. In fact, it exists.
We do a great job of moving forward, just as we are doing now.
But think about this: If time travel could be accomplished one day in the future, then it will have always been possible. And those future travelers’ ability to arrive in the moment we call today means that time...
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Stephen Colbert talks to Björk about her biophilia album iPad app and what inspired her interactive multimedia collection.
Biophilia previously here and here.
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What’s the weirdest or most interesting thing you’ve ever learned about biology, in fifteen words or less?
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accol reblogged your link: Santorum Calls Global Warming a “Hoax,” Suggesting a Full-Fledged Climate Conspiracy Theory
What would the motivation (of scientists? politicians?) to pull off a hoax like this? Money? I don’t know anyone getting rich off of climate change science, so…
Wait, you mean that climate scientists don’t all have Ferraris and bikini-clad models on every arm? Because...
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WatchHelp fund this PopView 3D Moon Map, a Kickstarter project to develop a moon map that will pop out with 3D glasses! This sounds amazing, we may never see the moon the same way again.
Well worth a few dollars.
(via Kickstarter)
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Santorum Calls Global Warming a “Hoax,” Suggesting... →
Which, of course, is completely bonkers. From Chris Mooney at DeSmog Blog:
A hoax, after all, implies nothing if not a coordinated effort to make people believe something that is known not to be true. So there has to be a cabal, a conscious effort at deception. And if the issue is global warming, then the cabal itself has to be global—for so is the scientific community and the international...
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closetospring reblogged your photo: After Recess, We’ll Be Inventing New Molecules …
hmmm clara looks like an old dude to me. (meaning: why is the featured picture not of her? if there’s video, i don’t…
Couldn’t find a picture of Clara and her molecule. If anyone does I will happily replace the old dude, as she deserves the mad props far more than he does :)
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630 →
Or … the number of pennies you’d have to collect, on average, to get a complete set of coins minted between 1959 and 1997, according to this research.
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Are You the Kind Of Person Who Hangs Out On... →
If so, now you don’t have to miss any posts! I’ve set up a Facebook Page for It’s Okay To Be Smart, so you have another place to keep up with the science. I know how frustrated people get when they miss posts, so this is another way to keep up with the blog, share it with your friends and talk with other lovers of all that is interesting.
So if that’s your thing and you...
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