Solar cone power art
Solar art. V3Solar has a spinning blue crystal prototype that has many advantages over flat-panels. Some details on costs. Via GizMag.
View ArticleDuck pond
"For the first time in their lives two dozen recently rescued ducks get their first taste of life in a pond."
View ArticleOED appeals to professors and madmen
Has anyone seen a blue-arsed fly? Someone must have cooties. This is no FAQ, can you make a make a defining contribution to the OED?
View ArticleCO2 make dumb
Have you ever been in a room with lots of people and not great ventilation. Or even a room with normal ventilation. You may be cognitively impaired due to elevated levels of CO2 once considered safe...
View ArticleLiquid-metal battery holy grail
A few nights ago MIT scientist Donald Sadoway (Time 100) was on Colbert Report to discuss a new cheap high-capacity liquid-metal battery that could be the holy grail for solar and wind power to store...
View ArticleRandom Harper Penguin
The book publishing world is merging into behemoths in order to better negotiate with Amazon. Rupert Murdoch (HarperCollins) has made an offer to buy Penguin for $1.6 billion. This just hours after...
View ArticleExtreme climate predictions the most accurate
A new study in which researchers have compared the last 10 years of actual climate data with the world's most sophisticated climate simulations and found the models predicting the most extreme global...
View ArticleThe greatest sandy disaster of our time
October 2012 is the 332nd consecutive month with an above-average temperature. If you were born in or after April 1985, if you are right now 27 years old or younger, you have never lived through a...
View ArticleClassic Sci-Fi and Fantasy, the literature of Reactionism
In 1978, Micheal Moorcock wrote an essay Starship Stormtroopers published in Anarchist Review which said that most popular science-fiction and fantasy is deeply Reactionary (authoritarian conservative...
View ArticleHistory's most influential people, ranked by Wikipedia reach
History's most influential people, ranked by Wikipedia reach (jpg version).
View ArticleMANPADS proliferation
Surface-to-air missile proliferation in Syria has become something to watch.
View ArticleFranz Kafka anime "Doctor, let me die"
Franz Kafka's hallucinatory A Country Doctor anime by Kōji Yamamura. The original text is very short.
View ArticleSyrian music of protest and war
Syrianmusicofrevolutionandwar. The first song is by Ibrahim Qashoush, a fireman and amateur poet from Hama, he was called the "nightingale of the revolution".
View Article128 pair-wise coupled superconducting flux qubits
The D-Wave OneTM is the world's first commercially available quantum computer. "Our superconducting 128-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded...
View ArticleNobel Prize Library
We introduced UNZ.org before but it's probably worth revisiting for a vein of gold, the Nobel Prize Library (1971), which contains full modern translations of significant works of 20th century...
View ArticleThis one goes deep purple
It's so hot in Australia they've added a new color to the weather map, a Tasmania-sized deep purple blob 50 degrees or more (123 F). In the USA 2012 was the hottest yearever recorded, smashing through...
View ArticleIn Russia ___
The sport of zorbing (previously) originated in the 1990s in New Zealand and is now done around the world. In Russia, zorbs have been adopted as a symbol of the 2014 Winter Olympics, which is being...
View ArticleShotgun wedding
Shotgun wedding (video) in Bir el Ater, Algeria. I don't know anything about this video, but discovered that Bir el Ater was cradle of the stoneage Ateriancivilization between about 80,000 and 40,000...
View ArticleGreenland melting
Melting Point Greenland has some sublime hi-def video of, well, Greenland melting. The summer 2012 melt was unprecedented, it alone rose global sea-levels by 1mm. The scientist-run blog Greenland...
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