images Proof that football is a global(ised) game. Look at this cool visualisation of world cup 2010 footballers, at the top they are grouped country they play nationally for, at the bottom by then country they club football in. 2010 World Now compare it to the same graph for 1994 That's globalisation for you. via Flowing
images Napoleon illusion. Long before the Margret Thatcher illusion there was this double image of Napoleon the captions read: bu?u?n??? ??nbu?p?q ??? o? bu?ob ??nbu?p?q ?u?u???? ??nbu?p?q - ????nb ?? ? ?u???? ??nbu?p?q Badinguet Allant a la Guerre - Badinguet Revenant Badinguet Going to
images Atheist scum, 1871 vs 2007 Artist George Cruikshank, 1871 via BibliOdyssey: 1870s Caricatures. Artist Martin Rowson, 2007 via New Humanist magazine
others Buzz Aldrin on space poo. Twelve short years ago I was a little obsessed with Buzz Aldrin wetting himself... http://www.onemonkey.org/casparhttp://www.onemonkey.org/caspar/apolloxi.htm But it seems life is odder than anything I might ever call art: Buzz Aldrin Is Not All That Impressed With Walking on the Moon
good Meaning of Life returns I am delighted to say that I have finally got my Meaning of life project back online. Back in 2003, I wrote to every (professional) philosopher in the country (all 643 of them) to ask them about the meaning of life, the universe and everything. This is what I said.
science Velcro ants can hold down moths 10,000x their weight If you don't yet subscribe to Not Exactly Rocket Science then you may not have seen these amazing pictures yet. Teams of teeeny-weeny ants gripping hoooge insects on fluffy leaves using teeeny nippers and the 'velcro principle'. [caption id="attachment_787" align="aligncenter&
good Congratulations, Mrs & Mrs Sigurdardottir-Leosdottir The best wedding I ever went to had two brides. And that is probably why it was the best wedding I ever went to. I imagine two grooms would do okay too but only because they be homosexual. I can't imagine what a wedding with two straight grooms
words Efforts to save endangered languages I clipped this from the web six months ago, clearly intending to say something about it. Never quite got round to it at the time and now I have completely forgotten what that was. But I will post it up here anyway in case I do ever remember. I don&
good You can't do that.. just think of Health and Safety [youtube W4o0ZVeixYU] Fast lane at Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Uncategorized Hello brave new world! Apologies if your rss feeds just went a little mental, I've just migrated my blog from b2evolution to wordpress. I had been meaning to do it for a while (approx. 6-18 months). Never quite got round to it. I thought during the England game would a nice quite
psycho xmas tip - looking at kittens improves your chance of winning Operation (or Buckaroo) Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. via neurocritic
good (S)-N-[1-(4-Cyclopropylmethyl-3,4-dihydro-2 H-benzo[1], [4]oxazin-6-yl)-ethyl]-3-(2-fluoro-phenyl)-acrylamide http://www.plosone.org/ar...al.pone.0008251 Or (S)-2 for short. The Acrylamide (S)-2 As a Positive and Negative Modulator of Kv7 Channels Expressed in Xenopus laevis Oocytesfrom PLoS ONE Alerts: Neuroscience by Sigrid Marie Blom et al.
god Irish bishop is first to quit over child sex abuse scandal - Europe, World - The Independent http://www.independent.co...al-1836062.html The heads are finally starting to roll in the Irish church.. An Irish bishop flew to Rome yesterday to hand in his resignation after days of angry and intense pressure over his handling of cases of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Donal
good Gaydar - Fitted as standard http://mindblog.dericbown...t=Google Reader Scientists have previously shown that everyone's got gaydar and now they show we've all got lesdar as well. From the random samples section of the Nov. 27 issue of Science: Can you guess a woman's sexual orientation just
science Higgs in Space! http://blogs.discovermaga...t=Google Reader A new paper uploaded to the arxiv physics preprint server today: Higgs in Space! via cosmic variance
words Inherent Vice [video:youtube:RjWKPdDk0_U] PEnguin have produced a trailer for Thomas Pynchon's latest novel. The voice-over is provided by the man himself. [via Cosmic Variance]
science The Reverse Brazil Nut Problem http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v86/i15/p3423_1 Reverse Brazil Nut Problem: Competition between Percolation and Condensation Daniel C. Hong, Paul V. Quinn and Stefan Luding Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3423 - 3426 (2001) In the Brazil nut problem (BNP), hard spheres with larger diameters rise to the
words Kings II K-edgeree http://blog.newhumanist.o...whats-your.html My old mates at the New Humanist tried and largely failed to interview Genesis P-Orridge for their last issue but it's not all bad news because it has spawned a new game and competition: combine your favourite book of the Bible with
psycho Blood cools brain not other way around. http://brainstimulant.blo...modynamics.html Rather tickled to discover that contrary to the belief of some ancient greeks, it seems that the brain isn't an organ for cooling the blood: Increasing [cerebral blood flow] in a specific deep brain region can cause a resultant decrease in brain temperature
science The human body literally glimmers. http://www.plosone.org/ar...al.pone.0006256 Image: Laura Cone Imaging of Ultraweak Spontaneous Photon Emission from Human Body Displaying Diurnal RhythmPLoS ONE: Neuroscience by Masaki Kobayashi et al. B-)
