Tag Archives: Science

Blackboards in Porn

By shirty | Published: April 4, 2012
Blackboards in Porn: Critiquing the background set décor in those skeevy teacher/student porn scenes. This is the reason the Internet was invented.  (NB: Surprisingly worksafe, though the illustrations still feature skeevy teacher/student actors.) Education cutbacks are clearly hitting hard – this establishment can only afford a periodic table with four elements, and a hand-drawn one [...]
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TED Talk: A blood test without bleeding

By shirty | Published: March 27, 2012
Fantastic. Myshkin Ingawale is the co-founder of Biosense Technologies, which has built ToucHB, a portable, non-invasive device to test for anemia. Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding | Video on TED.com.
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Life as a Scientist of Life Sciences

By shirty | Published: February 23, 2012
Neat article by the National Post about a spider expert. I particularly loved this little aside: Erigonines are so small that Nina has to handle them using a combination of a fine-gauge pipette—with which she sucks up a bead or two of spider-containing alcohol—and an even finer insect needle—with which she spends long minutes positioning [...]
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“Research”

By shirty | Published: November 17, 2011
I imagine the images from this study will provide many, many men with their first glimpse at a real female orgasm. Scientists have used brain scan images to create the world’s first movie of the female brain as it approaches, experiences and recovers from an orgasm. The animation reveals the steady buildup of activity in [...]
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Pan sapiens

By shirty | Published: October 31, 2011
Initial genetic studies characterised the DNA of chimpanzees (common chimpanzee and bonobo, collectively) as being as much as 98% (99.4 in one study) identical to that of Homo sapiens… In the seminal Nature paper reporting on initial genome comparisons, researchers identified thirty-five million single-nucleotide changes, five million insertion or deletion events, and a number of [...]
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Soap Bubble Burst ~ Fun zone

By Shirty | Published: August 23, 2011
http://dreamsivaraj.blogspot.com/2010/10/soap-bubble-burst.htmlI found this page while searching for those Roland Flexner works the other week. Three cheers for high-speed photography!
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The Most Unforgettable Space Shuttle Pictures

By Shirty | Published: August 23, 2011
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110720-best-unforgettable-space-shuttle-pictures/Seeing this picture amidst the shuttle program memories triggered one of my own. I have a very early memory which, for a few years, I assumed I was remembering badly: In 1980 or ’81, in Grade 1, our teacher spoke to us about this new Space Shuttle Columbia, which was doing a pre-spaceflight tour of [...]
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Balloon Travels Through Bladeless Fans is Todays BIG Thing in Technology – JUN 02, 2010

By Shirty | Published: June 16, 2010
http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2010/06/02This is why you need to keep your engineers on a tight leash (and a tight budget).
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The Bushmobile is Todays BIG Thing in Technology – JUN 09, 2010

By Shirty | Published: June 16, 2010
http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2010/06/09The Bushmobile. Inspired by MacBeth, or Monty Python, at the very least. I totally want one of these, if only because you could park it anywhere without the risk of getting a ticket.
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The Dead Fly Artwork Of Magnus Muhr

By Shirty | Published: May 12, 2010
http://io9.com/5531140/the-dead-fly-artwork-of-magnus-muhr/gallery/I don’t like this, I loooooooove this. There’s something very Far Side-ian about these little comics, though I may just be thinking of Gary Larson’s drosophilia-philia. (Couldn’t resist, sorry.)
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