Playing Any PC game on your Phone? Coming Sooner than you think…

The application is called Kainy and was brought to our attention in a comment on the Minecraft: Pocket Edition update article we wrote yesterday. This application is a 2 part program, one part being the actual application for your Android device (the client), and the other being for your PC which streams your games to [...]

Climate Scientist stoops to using Denier tactics (i.e. lies) to expose Heartland Institute conspiracy against Climate Science

“At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute’s climate programme strategy. It contained information about their funders and the Institute’s apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy. I do not know the source of that original [...]

Now *that’s* what I call a money shot

Some great pics of stuff you simply (and literally) can’t see every day are right over here. The title/joke should be apparent when you scroll down a couple pics… I’m very much looking forward to the day when we have scanning electron video-cameras.

The Latest Bit of Evidence To Be Dismissed by 40% of the American populace….

…. Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute last month discovered another striking instance of human genetic change. Among Tibetans, they found, a set of genes evolved to cope with low oxygen levels as recently as 3,000 years ago. This, if confirmed, would be the most recent known instance of human evolution. [full story] The difficulty [...]

I’ve been using one of these for years

I hadn’t realized this technology had come so far.  This makes a few scenes in Mission Impossible seem pretty dang probable.

Bringing an Asteroid back to Earth

Here’s the sciency goodness… Just in case you thought the re-entry of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft couldn’t get any better, NASA has just released an aerial video of the speeding sample return capsule followed by the break-up of the rest of the probe as the whole lot tumbled through the Earth’s atmosphere. And, of course, [...]

Impact and size of Gulf oil spill still in question

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9FO17L00 Oil has been spewing since the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 people and sinking two days later. The government shortly afterward estimated the spill at 210,000 gallons — or 5,000 barrels — a day, a figure that has since been questioned by some scientists who fear it could be far more. [...]

Jokes About Miami Airport Worker’s Body Scan Lead To Beating, Arrest

Jokes about wee wee-wee lead to beating Rolando Negrin, 44, was charged with aggravated battery after he used a police baton to beat Hugh Osorno on Tuesday. According to a police complaint, Negrin was upset following a training with whole body scanners with other co-workers. “The x-ray revealed [he] has a small penis and co-workers [...]

Clearing off the desktop…

…sometimes I fall behind.  So to catch up, I just dump a lot of stuff with short commentary and reboot the browsers so my computer can think again. Here goes… First up is an acknowledgement of the change to Arizona law.  This took away the worst of it, but I’d expect the rest to be [...]

A high-fructose corn syrup researcher answers his critics

http://www.grist.org/article/interview-with-princeton-hfcs-researcher-dr.-bart-hoebel “Dr. Hoebel points out that previous research has firmly established that if you give rats access to a 10% table sugar “drink” in addition to their normal feed, they do not gain additional fat. In other words, their bodies are able to metabolize the extra calories without creating more weight. This previous research is [...]

The Audacity of a New Hope

The Audacity of a New Hope — The Audacity of a New Hope This post is more just a general clearinghouse of some of the more interesting articles I’ve come across lately, and a bit of a call for a ray of hope, somewhere along down the line. First up is this diatribe by Camille [...]

Charles Darwin biopic having trouble finding American distributor

Charles Darwin biopic having trouble finding American distributor – Paul Bettany plays Charles Darwin in Creation The next round of the war on culture is coming soon (or not) to a theatre near you. From the Telegraph: Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of [...]

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