Archive for October, 2008
October 31, 2008 at 11:20 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
What strange things happen in the lab on Halloween? Read part I and part II to find out what’s going on. (Reposted in honor of Halloween)
“All those beauties in solid motion
All those beauties, gonna swallow you up
Hi hi hi hi hi hi
One time too many
Too far to go
I - we come to take you home”
- Swamp by the Talking Heads
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Original post by Sandra Porter none@example.com
October 31, 2008 at 11:09 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Artist Brendan Jamison creates awesome sculptures out of sugar cubes. If you think the picture above is awesome, wait till you see the whole sculpture: Link - via grow-a-brain
Now, if only he used the sugar cube cinder blocks …
Original post by Alex
October 31, 2008 at 9:50 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
With the U.S. presidential election just a few days away, many of us are in a frenzy to get information about the polls and who might be the winner. And everyone has an opinion about who’ll win. Today, you can test yourself against other CogDaily readers and see who’s the best.
But we also want to know something else: Does a person’s interest and involvement in the race affect their predictions? Will Obama supporters predict a wider margin of victory for their candidate?
And does being well-informed help? A relatively new phenomenon this year is poll aggregation websites, which collect the results from hundreds of polls to predict the election result. So, are the people who visit these sites better at predicting the results than others who don’t? Does reading one site better prepare you to predict the results than another? With this week’s study, we’ll try to find out!
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Original post by Dave Munger none@example.com
October 31, 2008 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
In the latest issue of Science, an article on grass-roots efforts by scientists in the last weeks before the election brought up a startling point, that there have been a lot of letters to the Editor and OpEds published in newspapers either endorsing Obama or pointing out the errors of the McCain campaign rhetoric on science. What is absolutely amazing, is that there has not been a single letter or OpEd by a scientist endorsing McCain. Not ONE? Here is a partial list of OpEds and letters that have appeared. This is by no means a comprehensive list. In fact, these are almost all in battleground states. This is a really unusual thing to happen in an election and should be appreciated for sheer volume, not to mention the amount of thoughtful time put into writing these things.
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Original post by Michael Stebbins none@example.com
October 31, 2008 at 8:03 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Elke Wisbey of Bearsted, Kent, England was born with brain damage. Now 6, she has never been able to walk, feed herself, or even communicate with her family -until now. A £17,000 MyTobii Smartbox machine tracks her eye movements with lasers and sends messages to a programmed voice that speaks for her. Elke took only a few days to learn how to use the machine, faster than her family members. Her parents noticed she was constantly looking at the “I love you” symbol.
Mrs. Wisbey, 43, who also has a son, Galahad, aged nine, said: ‘I thought it was stuck and then I realised what she was saying.
‘She was looking at the “I love you” icon and I couldn’t believe it, she kept doing it.
‘I said to Elke “are you telling Daddy you love him?” and she pointed at the icon “yes”.
‘It really choked me up, made me really [...]
Original post by Miss Cellania
October 31, 2008 at 7:45 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Elder offspring: I read about a house where the 17th stair on the staircase creaks because a man who was shot died on that stair.
Dr. Free-Ride: Oh, really?
Younger offspring: Why did it creak?
Elder offspring: Because the house is haunted.
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Original post by Janet D. Stemwedel none@example.com
October 31, 2008 at 7:39 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Halloween is here and so is our collaboration with the bestest
video aggregation website there is, VideoSift. Here are five Halloween
video clips you gotta see! (Links open in a new browser window/tab)
Stone Golem Costume
The coolness factor is off the chart with this one! Check out the
Stone Golem full suit costume, constructed with about 5 foam mattresses,
over 50 sticks of hot melt glue and 8 cans of grey and black spray
paint.
Link
Trick-or-Treater Pwns Scarecrow
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Original post by Alex
October 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
That’s a knitted motorcycle "cozy" by Washington DC artist Theresa Honeywell. For her artwork series titled KNIT!, Theresa uses the traditionally feminine mediums of knitting to um, embellish "macho" subjects like a motorcycle and a jackhammer. Oh, don’t miss her embroidered lace tattoos artwork!
Link - via Reuben Miller, Thanks Reuben!
Original post by Alex
October 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
If you’re not tired of political ads, take a gander at Nerve.com’s neat post of the 20 greatest political campaign ads of all time (yes, the Wazzup 2008 ad made it to the list, but the neat stuff are all the past campaigns. Oh, and by “great” they mean “effective” - some of the best are very, very negative.)
I was delighted to see this one, "Mrs. JFK" 1960:
John Kennedy had commercials starring Henry Fonda and Harry Belafonte, but his best booster may have been his Missus, who in her public appearances was eager to show that she wasn’t just a pretty face: she was a pretty face who’d managed to retain some of her finishing-school Spanish. It may not be possible now to fully understand what a jolt it was for the country to see a future First Lady looking fairly hot while signing off with the announcement, "Viva Kennedy!" [...]
Original post by Alex
October 31, 2008 at 7:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Photo: zerega [Flickr]
Actually, it only looks like a Soviet death ray gun. The rusting structure is actually part of the Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory near the Great Almaty Lake, Kazakhstan. Environmental Graffiti blog has more: Link
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