Remember when you were young…
- Robert Bigelow (the man behind NIDS) successfully launches his inflatable space hotel prototype. More at Space.com.
- Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd, dies aged 60.
- Study finds that magic mushrooms can induce mystical effects and have positive life-changing effects. Not to mention they negate the need for a high-fidelity stereo. MAPS has a handy summary of links and statements on their website.
- Take five dried grams and then check out Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log post on the geometry of music.
- The Cosmic Log is always worth the daily stop-over. Check out these explosive links Alan has to the recent Space Shuttle launch also.
- Another meteorite hits Norway. Are you Norwegians getting a little nervous now?
- Smart Orbs are NASA’s worker bees in space.
- Sploid.com has a good round-up of the Phoenix Lights redux from July 4th.
- The monster detectives. Inside the world of the Center for Fortean Zoology.
- Newly unveiled Einstein Letters give a high-res picture of the famed scientist’s life, including how he blew his Nobel prizemoney, and how he liked to play up with the ladies. You naughty Einstein you…
- Must be a scientist thing, because Francis Crick was a flirt and experimented with marijuana and LSD. Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code is available from Amazon US.
- Brain chip allows paralysed man to control objects through the power of thought. Just be careful he doesn’t say “screw you”.
- Researchers hope to restore sight in two common varieties of blindness.
- Werner Herzog creates a sci-fi mashup with his ‘documentary’ The Wild Blue Yonder.
- 4-year-old boy survives fall from 11th story building.
- Scientists question Nature’s (supposedly) fundamental laws. Is God pulling the rug out from under our Enlightened feet?
- Transgender professor defends female scientists.
- Evidence for ancient killer kangaroo found.
- Archaeologist backed on Dilmun calendar theory.
- European Alps could be ice-free by 2100, according to GW study. That would make skiing difficult (at the very least)…
- Scientists shed new light on how ballooning spiders can fly epic distances.
- Is ethanol not so green after all?
- A Brilliant job: meet the guy who gets to give away $1billion of Google’s money.
- All aboard! An Apple Mac powered by steam. I was wondering why Sub Rosa designer Mark James Foster was asking me for a coal allowance…
- With his purchase of MySpace, Rupert Murdoch is set to become an Internet playa. It’s all part of the new user-created web. Get typing you TDG monkeys!
- And a little mind-altering video to finish the day, for those that want to avoid the magic mushrooms (broadband probably required). Take a look at someone’s face after watching that…aieee, there’s a bad trip!
Thanks HeartsGuy and Kat.
Quote of the Day:
Life, so-called, is a short episode between two great mysteries.
Carl Jung
