Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Twitching frog server gets called “art”
Similar to the previously seen Text-o-possum, someone’s bad art project has spread, virus-like, to the internet, where we have to be subjected to its heavy-handed proclamations on the role of technology in modern society. This time it’s “Experiments in Galvanism”, a tiny server embedded in a dead frog, submerged in mineral oil, which is remotely ...
3 Things Global Warming Could Change Forever
1. Great Barrier Reef may be gone in 20 years The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognizable within 20 years. Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, told The Times: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef ...
Weird Science puts its mice in the air
Magnets + mice = levitation: Apparently, water and other substances have very, very weak magnetic properties that resist any external fields. Given the strength of magnetic fields we normally encounter, this fact never comes into play. But, given a powerful enough magnet and some people at the Jet Propulsion Lab who are interested in zero ...
The Weird Side Of Flickr
