"We always knew it but now it’s official – pet owners have rose-tinted views of their animals. People even become defensive on behalf of a triangle if told it’s “theirs”."
"Give college students less instruction and more freedom to think for themselves in laboratory classes, and the result may be a four-fold increase in their test scores." Hoodathunkit?
"Rather than encoding signals in high and low voltages, the circuits encode signals in high and low concentrations of short DNA molecules. The chemical logic gates that perform the information pr
"The Father of beatnik, William Burroughs, devised a technique by which one's writing may be cleansed of its cultural and semantic bias." The Huge Entity has been at the Bug Powder Dust, met
"The Ministry of Defence reportedly stockpiled bought thousands of [Modafinil] pills ahead of the Iraq war but they have never been given to combat personnel." Sounds a bit low-key compared
In »Design Probes« Philips is exploring future applications for technology that are not just an enhancement of the status quo but rather tries to incorporate completely new ways of thinking.
Great post showing a safe way to realize the "Elephant toothpaste" experiment. Not as spectacular as the original one, but it's done with stuff we can easily find at home.