…but maybe not as much as I should have, thanks to my parents failure to play rhythmically challenging music for me when I was a child. It’s their fault I’m such a lousy golfer, too.
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Liver on a chip
No, that’s not some really disgusting high school cafeteria recipe–it’s this biotech chip that allows for rapid screening of potential drugs to weed out the ones that could prove toxic.
The virtual you
Wouldn’t it be nice if the doctor could poke and prod a computer simulation of you instead of the real thing–and only do something to you once he had everything figured out?
There’s always more time in the future…
People overcommit because they always expect to have more time in the future than they do right now, researchers say. Ain’t it the truth?
The Hope Diamond mystery solved!
Using computer analysis, Smithsonian researchers have determined that the Hope Diamond was cut from the French Blue, a 69-carat diamond that belonged to King Louis XIV of France and was itself part of a 115-carat stone found in India in 1668. The French Blue was stolen during the French Revolution, and the Hope Diamond first …
I think this is funny, and if you love me, you will, too!
This speaks for itself, I think: “Eric Bressler, a graduate student at McMaster University who is studying the role of humour in personal attraction, discovered in a survey of 150 students that to a woman, ‘sense of humour’ means someone who makes her laugh; to a man, a sense of humour means someone who appreciates …
"I’ll have a print-out of sushi, please!"
A cordon-bleu chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of edible paper that can taste like anything, from birthday cake to sushi.
Apollo panoramas
There are lots of great panoramas on display here, but for me the most moving are those of the Apollo landing sites. Just 20 years to get there, if I’m going to fufill my childhood dream of retiring on the moon… Although, actually, I’m beginning to think Mars might be better.
A public sculpture that can’t be photographed?
That’s what they’ve got in Chicago. And that’s just plain nuts. “The vilest display of human venality I’ve heard of all day” just about covers it, all right.
Brain changes
We’re all getting older. (As the saying goes, it’s better than the alternative.) And as we age, we can’t help noticing that our brains don’t work quite the same way as they did when we were younger. Researchers have certainly noted this, and whether it’s because the average age of the population is going up …
Diamonds are a planet’s best friend…
…especially when they’re layers of diamond kilometres thick.
Planets, planets everywhere?
The more we look, the more we find planets–or, in this case, potential planets–everywhere. What’s fascinating about this is that these incipient planets orbit a brown dwarf, a “failed star.” Nobody expected to find potential planets in that situation. What’s more, the brown dwarf is warm enough that any planets that form might even be …
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