Diamonds Made From Tequila I’ve seen — and experienced — tequila fuel transformations of varying kinds (most of which hurt a lot the...
private visit to the new California Academy of Sciences aquarium close-up on 12seconds.tv I was very lucky to be invited at very short notice yesterday to get a...
death threats to scientists plague tomorrow’s largest particle accelerator activation Tomorrow the world’s largest circular particle accelerator — 17 miles (27 kilometers) long — is set to be switched...
live falcon 1 launch fails, scotty’s remains still on earth Image of engine test via SpaceX. Yesterday I was at CalPoly hanging out in the satellite lab, and one...
Mystery Meat (Eaters’ Molecule) I sincerely hope that the bacon bra does not cause cancer, no matter how much nibbling one does. Mystery...
100 Weirdest Amphibians List New Scientist has an article and awesome gallery about the 100 Weirdest Amphibians List, as designated by the Zoological...
Visible Barbie Project Creepy *and* Fun I can’t remember how I stumbled across this page (oh, maybe it was this NSFW HTML nightmare; I’ve had...
O Hai: The Glow Cats Yes, Gizmodo posted about them yesterday and Wired hit them today (with an *annoying float ad*), and MSNBC has...
Genetically Fearless Mice I’m still trying to figure out what the benefit of this genetic mod could possibly be: in Japan, scientists...
Monsanto v. Schmeiser, Schmeiser v. Monsanto Among the 2007 winners of the Right Livelihood Award, presented annually on December 9 to honor those “working on...