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Sending Vibes Through Squids
BoingBoing documents the research of Backyard Brains, which, as of late, has consisted of monitoring how playing Cyprus Hill affects a squid’s chromatophores. The results look not unlike an iTunes Visualizer: “Greg Gage of the DIY neuroscience company Backyard Brains stimulated the axons…
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Alternative Medicine
Xeni Jardin cautions against the use of alternative medicines at BoingBoing. “Green smoothies are great, but they alone cannot cure cancer. Oncology isn’t guaranteed to cure us, but quackery is guaranteed to kill us. What doctors like my rad-onc practice…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to the weekend, everyone. Make it a good one. For those of you (like me) who will be watching a little football this evening and tomorrow, it’s time to admit that there’s not much action in an actual game…
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Saturday Morning Links
Morning, everyone. Let’s get our geek on. Get out your checkbook, members of the nerdcore. You can buy Gene Roddenberry’s Mac 128 computer, given to him by Apple. Erik Loomis wonders why Henry Ford is so revered when he was…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday everyone. Warning: following this link might make you question humanity for the rest of the day. Hint–it involves Twilight and a dildo. Via Slog the Stranger. More Edward Cullen madness at Geekologie. For crying out loud, some…
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Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. The “Don’t Worry Be Happy” guy plays an audience like a musical instrument at the World Science Festival 2009. Via boingboing.