It’s a floating dwelling, perfect for a water world like Marseguro. And it only costs $2.5 million! (Via Gizmodo.)
A 737 hitchhiker?
This is literally unbelievable: MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) – A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday. After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukovo Airport, the …
Watch for falling rock
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. As a kid I was always disappointed when we drove past “Watch for Falling Rock” signs in the mountains and no rocks actually fell. (I had a similar reaction to deerless “Deer Crossing” signs.) Obviously we were just driving in the wrong places, because …
Avert your eyes!
The singularity at the center of our galaxy may be naked…and through its corrupting wanton abandon could “leak lawlessness into the universe, destroying any concept of cause and effect.” Paging Dr. Who…
A nice mini-review of my story The Wind…
…turned up at G-Pop: The Wind by Edward Willett brought back memories of another ghostly tale by none other than Edgar Allen Poe, entitled The Tell-Tale Heart. At first you feel some sympathy toward this man who, once happily married and at home in his childhood home, finds himself alone, his wife gone and his …
Weather on the Web
Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… Audio version here. ***** The weather is perennially fascinating. We check the forecast first thing in the morning. We check the weather in cities we might be visiting on business or vacation. And northerners heading south for a bit of sun pay particular attention to the hurricane forecasts. Once …
One step closer to the return of the woolly mammoth?
Maybe. That’s the focus of today’s post at Futurismic; and thanks to Janet at The Walrus Said for the tip!
The best science images of 2007…
…can be seen here.
A few reader comments for Lost in Translation…
…from Paperback Swap: “Great story about two empaths from different species who must work together to find common ground and avert interstellar war. Enjoyed the character development (human and alien).” “This book was a very good read for me. The characters were good and well thought out. The author took the homage of walking in …
Photo of the Day that was Actually Taken Some Time Ago: Tobermory Light
Tobermory Light, on Lake Huron. More photos here.
If satellites can be used to find long-lost plane wrecks…
…why can’t they be used to search for Bigfoot and Nessie? See my post at Futurismic!
"You swollen-headed political dwarf, such a provocation will be regarded as a declaration of war!"
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