Tag: science
Bee shared this one with me, from 10 years ago: a quietly furious tale of prejudice where pride — in one’s self-appointed expertise (in this case, junk science about arson investigations), in one’s convictions (the failings of eyewitness testimony), whatever it may be — comes before truth and justice. #link
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I shouldn’t find this funny but I do. #link
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This must have been a heavy situation. Heavy, get it? #link
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The worst consequences of monoculture and monovorism (and of post-colonial proxy war). #link
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Leaving aside the pseudoscience of plants ‘hearing’ music (though it’s worth musing on the notion that we humans are not that far removed from vegetable matter), this here is a great selection of ambient music inspired by our photosynthesising, CO2-respiring friends. #link
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Amazing what the body can do to compensate for changing circumstances. #link
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Had this issue for a couple of weeks over the summer; interesting to know the probable culprit. #link
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Black holes could delete the Universe, apparently. But they’re also the ultimate hard drive. My head is spinning. [c/o Kottke.org] #video
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Who didn’t have this on their computer around the turn of the century? And the project is still going! Best of the web, no doubt. #link
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Bees are the best. #link
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What an incredible story; might this be only step one towards helping unlock such people’s minds from their prisons of their bodies? #link
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Wired tasked a neuroscientist to explain a new concept in his field at five levels of understanding — from a peer to a five-year-old. [c/o Kottke.org] #video
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Ross Andersen on a fascinating project in Siberia, already decades old, that’s attempting to resurrect the Mammoth Steppe ecosystem. It’s not just the scale of the biome itself in terms of both the space and time required (it’s a ‘Long Now’ kind of deal, for sure, when we’re talking about “a global land war” between grasses and forests over tens of millions of years) but the mind-boggling accelerated futurism involved in creating the approximation of an extinct species that might be the key to such a biome thriving beyond human hands. That’s not to mention the intersections of and implications for climate science and geopolitics and biotechnology and ethical philosophy. Wow, just wow. #link
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An amazing breakthrough if it scales. #link
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Here’s one I’ve had in my blogfodder folder forever: Deerhoof making a racket at CERN. #video
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Adds a whole new dimension to seed theory. [c/o 5it] #link
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Way too much overthinking here, since the function of the craft doesn’t factor into the story of the film whatsoever. But the fact that these things are thought about? That’s good. [c/o Pinboard/infovore] #link
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