A little more on that silly rumor (mentioned yesterday) that the Obama administration has started handing out free cell phones to poor people: The program they’re talking about was introduced under President George W. Bush (not Obama) in order to … Continue reading
This three-dimensional recreation of one of artist M.C. Escher’s best-known drawings is best viewed full-screen so you can clearly see the water flow. (Click the little symbol at the lower right of the video.) Notice anything odd? (If not, you … Continue reading
The remarkable Antikythera mechanism is a device more than 2000 years old apparently intended to compute the positions of the classical planets, predict eclipses, and perform related astronomical calculations. The website of Britain’s Guardian newspaper published an interesting article today … Continue reading
In July a New Yorker named Brett Cohen hoaxed a bunch of people in Times Square into believing that he was a celebrity simply by adopting the trappings of celebrity — body guards, Paparazzi, and hanger’s on. It was apparently … Continue reading
From a high school student’s class project: by … Continue reading
As an aid to morale, U.S. Army infantry troops in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, put together their version of a music video based on the song “Call Me Maybe,” sung by Carly Rae Jepson and written by her and Tavish Crowe. … Continue reading
Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio has been mentioned as one of the more likely possible vice presidential running mates for Mitt Romney. It turns out that his family owns the oldest hotel in the state, the Golden Lamb Inn … Continue reading
This starts off moderately interesting, then gets quite a bit more interesting about a minute and 14 seconds into the clip, when you see why this is not just snazzy technology: Google says its self-driving cars have never been involved … Continue reading
If you regularly check NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day you probably already saw this yesterday, but if not it’s definitely worth a couple of minutes of your time. It’s a series of night-time time-lapse images of the moving night … Continue reading
Dr. William Bell holds the world’s record in the pole vault for his age group. He trains three times a week at a facility operated by his son, former Olympic silver medal winner Earl Bell, in Arkansas, where two of … Continue reading