Tag: research

“Ah, Garlick, you jeered me when I came to your house to call my husband home. You laughed and jeered me, and I went crying away. Oh, you are a pretty one!…Send for Garlick and his wife…I would tear her in pieces and leave the birds to pick her bones!” And it went on and on. The women tried to cure her of the witchcraft that befell her with oil and sugar. They gave her some cough syrup. Soon after, a metal pin fell out of her mouth.

via Boing Boing

The resulting microscope (iMicroscope?) was able to detect parasite eggs in stool samples with nearly 70% accuracy (the normal microscope gets it right 87% of the time), and was able to detect some worms with up to 80% accuracy.

The marine animal tunicate can be used both as biofuel and fish food, according to prize-winning Norwegian research.

Those who suffer from it are “cortically blind”, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing. Failing to accept being blind gets dismissed by the sufferer through confabulation.

Fuzzy ears that theoretically respond to your mental exertions.

Interactive map showing the keywords for porn searches from around the globe

via Mr Church

Via the onion knight

Hitchcock talks MacGuffins

Reference: FLIP flipping. Note size reference at end of clip.

Freedom has many definitions

It’s a bike, it’s a car, it’s – the future!

A inelegant weapon from a less civilized age.

John Nagy, author of Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution, discusses the codes, ciphers, chemistry and psychology of spying in the American Revolution, in a talk recorded by podcast host Steve Mirsky at the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

Fantastic list from AMMI

British troops are using a nano drone just 10cm long and weighing 16 grams on the front line in Afghanistan to provide vital information on the ground,

Cannibalism primer: “I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives.”

“A K-9 alerted and responded to one suspect’s mid-section. The other suspect walked with an “awkward gait.””

“Someone has placed a job placement notice on a controversial online classified ads site seeking “beautiful, sophisticated ladies” to seduce businessmen in hopes of “extracting key pieces of information.””

Consider this against The Seasteading Institute’s platform efforts – Piracy? Transport? Automated boat fleets?