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Bees have Face Recognition
Last week I was stung on the face by a bee. Sadly, the bee died. I am still going strong. Image credit: Robert W. Matthews, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org Had the bee survived, and had I given it some kind of sugary reward, then according to scientists at the Université de Toulouse, it would have remembered…
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Queue Reality Distortion Field!
Apple giveth a new toy for dicking about with.
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Meet ‘The Back-Up’ shotgun rack
“enabling access to your shotgun while in the lying position in your bed”. Yes folks, it’s real. The theme here is obviously home defence, but I guess if you can’t live with the fear any longer, your gun is also conveniently located for a suicide attempt.
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Dog Restrainer
c. 1940 from LIFE Magazine’s ‘30 Dumb Inventions‘
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Mobile Phone Radiation Used To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease (in mice)
As links between mobile phone usage and brain tumours become more evident there is some good news, mobile phones may also enhance your memory and prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Via LiveScience
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Freeze-Wait-Reanimate
Yesterday was the 43rd anniversary of the death and subsequent freezing of Dr. Bedford – the worlds first successful cryogenics patient (successful in the fact that he is still frozen and, unfortunately, also still dead). Quoting from the 1967 issue of Freeze-Wait-Reanimate, there may be some hope for reanimation in the distant future when reanimation techniques have…
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The Age Online Is A Horrible Publication
Breaking News from The Age: But don’t just take my word for it. (ed. 15th Jan. Link now broken – or fixed, depends on your point of view) Via Backstoryesque
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Space Elevator II
Tomás Saraceno, Space Elevator II (working title), 2009. © Tomás Saraceno Via we-make-money-not-art
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LOL (LOL)
Confused? over 30? see Rocketboom
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David Harvey on the right to the city.
David Harvey speaks about ‘the right to reshape the city in a different image’. He presents the city as a manifestation of our heart’s desire; ‘In remaking the city we remake ourselves. The question of what kind of city do we want cannot be divorced from questions about what kind of people do we want to…