The new Cadillac DTS will have a new windshield-wash system that shoots 176-degree (Fahrenheit, natch) washer fluid across the windshield, clearing snow, ice, bugs and what-have-you. I’m a big Volvo fan, myself, so…Volvo? The ball’s in your court. I expect to be buying a new car any decade now… (Via Gizmodo.)
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A mind-reading computer
And science fiction again turns into science fact. From Nature: “Computer scientists have created a hat that can read your thoughts. It allows you to stroll down a virtual street. All you have to do is think about walking.” (Via Responsible Nanotechnology.)
Yesterday redux
I wish I’d thought of this: Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of play. Now my chapters have all gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. I…pushed…something wrong What it was I could not say. Now my thesis is gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to …
A rocket racing league?
“Gentlemen and ladies, start your fire-breathing engines.”
A well-deserved Nobel
When I was a kid, my dad had an ulcer. At the time, everyone knew ulcers were caused by excess stomach acid and brought on by stress. We still talk about them sometimes as if we think that’s what causes them. But guess what? They’re not. They’re caused by bacteria, H. pylori, to be precise, …
I’ve noticed this!
When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in you room will still be visible, just slightly bluish. …and 39 other things that only happen in movies. (Via By The Way.)
Fantastic Voyage?
Not quite, but it’s the next bext thing. Either that, or it has the makings of the ultimate reality show.
Dolphins learn music…
…and it’s the theme to Batman. No, really. It’s the first time non-humans have been shown to be able to grasp the concept of rhythm, and that’s very exciting, but… Batman?!
You are a party of one
When you’re deeply asleep, the various parts of your brain stop talking amongst themselves. Consciousness, it seems, is just chemical-driven chatter–rather like the conversation at a cocktail party.
Miocenic Park
A University of Manchester scientist has discovered the first identified droplets of spider blood in a piece of amber up to 20 million years old. And yes, it might be possible to recover DNA from it. And then it turns out that spiders from the Miocene are both highly poisonous and diabolically clever and we’re …
We’re lucky!
Our universe could have had seven dimensions–and no planetary systems as we know them.
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