According to Italian researchers, great works of art, such as Michelangelo’s David, can trigger, aggression, nausea and even a desire to destroy the work. Not my reaction when I saw it. I think my first thought was, “Wow, it’s bigger than I realized.” Prosaic, perhaps, but there you go.
The ongoing Gizmodo quest for the world’s most useless USB peripheral turns up a strong contender.
In the immortal words of Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, “Work, work, work, work, work, work, work.”
Harry Taube, born in Neudorf, Sask., educated right here in Regina at Luther College, then in Saskatoon at the University of Saskatchewan, and winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1983, has died. From his acceptance speech: “Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture and is in itself ennobling. Each new insight into …
…but Dream Chaser will take people not just on suborbital hops, but all the way into orbit. And, of course, once you’re in orbit, you’re “halfway to anywhere.”
Or is this column decrying the conspiracy-theory mentality itself part of a great conspiracy to hide the truth? I link…you decide.
It’s called alagebrium, and it looks promising. I find myself far more interested in medical anti-aging advances now, at age 46, than I remember being interested in them when I was, say, 26…
Powdered metal is the automotive fuel of the future.
…the headline “Armoured Grizzlies in Sudan within days: Ottawa” makes you think of Philip Pullman.
There’s an obvious cheap joke here, considering how people tend to think of opera singers as being, um, large individuals…but I think I’ll just point you to the story without further comment.
I didn’t know they existed, but they do: and thanks to space-age know-how, they may be reaching the point where ordinary water heaters will become obsolete, saving energy and expense and ensuring the hot water never runs out.
From The New Scientist: “A new microscope sensitive enough to track the real-time motion of a single protein, right down to the scale of its individual atoms, has revealed how genes are copied from DNA – a process essential to life.” From me: “Cool!”
