Great piece by Anthony Gottlieb over at The Economist on one potentially big upside for e-readers over books–the ability to correct errors in real time, without the expense of pushing…
We begin with death today, specifically the smell of it. Apparently, insects all emit the same blend of fatty acids when they die, and that smell sends them scurrying. High…
Morning everyone. Here are some truffles I rooted up for you. Well, truffle-shaped at the very least. Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson has hired a professional tweeter. I may have…
My family was recently out of town for a five days, leaving me home alone with over 800 pages (no exaggeration) of student work to read and comment upon. My…
Scott James, who writes under the pen name Kemble Scott, has a new book out: The Sower. Scott originally self-published The Sower on Scribd, an online “social publishing” site that…
Twelve things left on the moon. Grace Kim’s Love Hotel series takes you inside pay-by-the-hour hotels. Wikipedia has a list of inventors killed by their own inventions. A new twist…
Speaking of evolution, it turns out that many common fairy tales are older than originally thought. Dr Jamie Tehrani has studied “35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood” and has…
Have you been trying to find someone to date who shares your love of Sean Hannity? Despite all of our advances in technology, sometimes pigeons are the way to go.…
We live in a time where fake DNA has a place in the market! Nucleix, a company specializing in forensic DNA analysis, has uncovered the possibility of falsified DNA evidence…