Blow The Mind: The Science of Gremlins and Mogwai
The adult or “gremlin” mogwai. (Image courtesy of Mike Corriero) Mogwai and Gremlins might SEEM the most unrealistic little monsters ever to crawl out of the 1980s, but nothing could be further from...
View ArticleBlow Your Mind: Big Science of 2012 (with videos)
As you leave 2012 in the dust, join Julie and I as we take one last look in the rear-view mirror at some of the truly mind blowing science that went down in the past year. Oh yes, and those videos we...
View ArticleRed Snow is Falling Down (seriously)
Dante and Virgil witness the of Torture of Fiery Rain. (Gustave Dore) So I’m currently reading an excellent article by Professor Randy Cerveny on the meteorology of Dante’s Inferno and he mentions...
View ArticleFuturistic Surgical Blade Can Taste Cancer
(©Sagel & Kranefeld/Corbis) They say a man’s only as good as his tools, but what would “they” say about the cancer-detecting iKnife? The smart surgical instrument is the work of Dr Zoltan Takats...
View ArticleThe Keys to Narnia
Through the eye of a child. (Christina Kilgour/Flickr/Getty) If we learned anything from the tales of our childhood, it’s that only the young see the world as it really is. After all, who spoke with...
View ArticleAstounding 1983 Bioluminescence Research Photos
Making science look cool, Staff Research Associate Charlie Arneson uses a Bunsen burner to inoculate and then transfer cultures of Photobacterium NZ11-D. (© Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS) As a science...
View ArticleBehold the Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko
Satanic gecko action! (REUTERS/J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester) Our recent episode “Autotomy: Nature’s Dismemberment Plan” dives into the tail-dropping world of lizards, geckos and skinks, so...
View ArticleIs God a highly-evolved extraterrestrial being?
“Lamentation over the Dead Christ” by by Antonio Canova, 1799 (DeAgostini/Getty Images) Before I begin, let me preface by saying this post isn’t about ancient astronauts. It’s about the God of the...
View ArticleMeet The Real-Life Cthulhu
Cthulhu is dreaming. (Art by Richard Falla) “A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most...
View ArticleToo Sweet: Where Hinduism Meets Pro-Wrestling
Is too sweet too healthy? (Zohaib Hussain/Getty Images) Yoga and professional wrestling have an interesting relationship. A growing number of performers turn to yoga to help maintain their physical...
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