July 2010
43 posts
Shameless plug #2 →
When I put this link up last time I hadn’t actually left for this trip, but now I am actually on the road and having fun. Check out the link if you are at all interested in bikes, traveling, or people doing crazy things.
American Fixed Gear →
The website for our trip. Under construction, obviously, but I if I happen to have any followers who might be interested in what it’s like to ride a fixed gear in a 5,000-mile loop around the Southwest, this site would be a good one to keep track of.
Canada: 4600-Year-Old Skeleton Discovered in... →
fuckyeahanthropology:
katiepithecus:
A team of archaeologists, working with the Kitchenuhmaykoosik Inninuwug First Nation, has discovered a 4,600-year-old burial at the mouth of the Bug River, on the south side of Big Trout Lake in Canada.
littleboneslou:
Guys
Guys
I want this Milky Way necklace so bad, but it’s 125$
BRB CRYING FOREVER
Agreed. Let’s cry together.
Image of the only nuke ever detonated in space →
greg2point0:
via Toby Bartlett
Archaeologists Begin Dig on Buried Stone Circle... →
heartmindspirit:
Archaeologists have begun a major dig to unearth the hidden mysteries of a buried ancient stone circle site that is ten times bigger than Stonehenge. The enormous 4,000 year old Marden Henge, in Wiltshire, is Britain’s largest prehistoric structure stretching for 10.5 hectares, the equivalent of 10 football pitches. English Heritage is carrying out a six-week dig hoping to...
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
– Albert Einstein (via richardsimonbaker)
Cancer caused by DNA repair gone haywire →
mapboy:
This is good news for cancer research. Researchers have identified the cause of cancer, which occurs when cells mess up their attempts to repair damage to their DNA. While there is still no cure for this dreadful disease, this is a huge step forward to finding one. The American Cancer Society estimates over 12 million new cancer cases were diagnosed and 7.6 million cancer deaths occurred...
I am Jack's brain: Tooth regeneration gel could... →
Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, according to a new study in the journal ACS Nano. This technology is the first of its kind.
The…
Best Science Teacher Ever Tricks Students Into... →
fuckyeahchemistry:
DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM:
When Japan’s Hayabusa space probe returned home from a sever-year odyssey this month, we got to see the amazing video as it broke up in a brilliant flash in the atmosphere and deposited its sample container (hopefully containing asteroid material) in Australia. Three high school students from Massachusetts, however, got a much better view. They...
June 2010
272 posts
Implicit Learning || The Frontal Cortex →
hilaryrakestraw:
[T]he dual process model of cognition … [divides] the mind … into two general modes. There is Type 1 thinking, which is largely unconscious, automatic, contextual, emotional and speedy; it turns out that most of our behavior is shaped by these inarticulate thoughts…. And then there is Type 2 thinking, which is deliberate, explicit, effortful and intentional…. Needless to...
Off the Record: TIL - June 30 →
I just helped a man born in 1932 set up his first email account. Its weird thinking of how much life this man has been through, and that I had the honor of helping this awesome man set up his first email account. I mean, email is such an important part of today’s society that it was great to…
“The general pattern is that religious stupidity exists for millenniums,...”
– Robert Anton Wilson (via commondense)
