Thanks to Shannyn Moore for resurrecting this clip!

What the heck happened to Sarah Palin?  Yesterday, July 3rd she resigned as governor, surprising everyone, including even those closest to her.Her resignation speech was a rambling incoherent mess explaining neither why she’s quitting nor what her vision of her future is.  She seems to have just thrown up her arms and given up.
This has [...]

US start up Ambient Corporation has a neckband able to pick up the nerve signals the brain sends to the muscles in the voicebox and have a computer decode them. They realised that those signals are sent even when a person thinks about speaking without actually making a sound. As a result, a person wearing [...]

The year was 1912, Shizo Kanakuri was running for Japan’s very first Olympic team at the Stockholm games. During the race, Shizo dropped out from heat exhaustion and spent the next hour in a nearby garden enjoying refreshments and visiting wih the owners. Embarrassed, he never completed the race and disappeared back to Japan. [...]

A story from Not Exctly Rocket Science describes the discovery that mosquitoes not only hear (it was assumed that they didn’t) but that they also harmonize in mating love songs with their wing beats:

To our ears, the buzz of a mosquito is intensely irritating and a sign of itchiness to come, but to theirs, it’s [...]

Truthout has a great article by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship summing up the travesty that was 2008.  They liken it to the old Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup. And amazingly, the comparison is very apt.  Go read the article.

The famous Marx Brothers movie “Duck Soup” offered comic relief in the darkest of times. (Photo: [...]

Scientists monitoring at Mount Moreland - South Africa’s largest Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica roost - have captured their first overseas ringed bird from a festively snowy location. The young Barn Swallow had flown all the way from Finland – a total of 11,000 km! “This is an amazing Christmas gift”, said Hilary Vickers of the [...]