Friday, September 25, 2009
get into a good restaurant
Bruce Feiler explains how to get a table in any restaurant in the world (via Jason Kottke).
Monday, September 21, 2009
Technique
The justification for technique is being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it.
Ansel Adams, via Jack Shedd.
Some of our assumptions may be wrong
Ants looking for aliens: we’ve searched dozens of these floor tiles for several common types of pheromone trails. If there were intelligent life up there, we would have seen its messages by now.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Things that you don’t understand
The Royal Society (a national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth) issued a study concluding that it is now feasible to start geo-engineering the climate.
The same week, researchers at UCLA reported the discovery of previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere in the earth’s upper atmosphere.
“It’s like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun.” said Larry Lyons, a co-author of the research.
To paraphrase Stevie Wonder: when you mess with things that you don’t understand, you suffer.
Monday, September 07, 2009
What happens when something bigger than a testicle attacks you?
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