The Fount of Useless Information
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Octopuses can ‘see’ with their skin – completely bypassing their eyes and brains
The same light-sensitive pigment found in their eyes exists in their skin
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/octopuses-can-see-skin—5733629
This is not unexpected to me, I have seen videos of octopi moving onto …
Team Designs Liquid Metal Antenna Twice as Powerful than a Regular One
http://www.wallstreetotc.com/team-designs-liquid-metal-antenna-twice-as-powerful-than-a-regular-one/218388/
Interesting idea. I was intrigued to note this passage: “NCSU researchers have long shown a special interest in liquid metal devices…”. I guess they just think the …
I recently learned that the ‘punchline’ often required a mouse-over, give it a try…
Even after reading the mouse-over text I still had to think about it for a few more seconds (I was clueless entirely until the mouse-over), but, …
This is a follow on to a previous post…
Over the weekend I discussed the positioning of my writing as ‘erotic romance’ with my wife. I was not sure how I felt about the sex scenes I had written …
In the off chance that any of my reader(s) are interested, I thought I would throw out a request:
Anyone want to be a ‘beta reader‘ for my erotic romance thriller?
At the beginning of this year I …
A handshake can reveal how long you will live
How likely you are to die in the next few years could be judged from your handshake, new research shows.
http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/health/mens-health/a-handshake-can-reveal-how-long-you-will-live-20150515-gh273d.html
I doubt this is causative, almost certainly correlative (meaning a …
I have to imagine everyone has seen it by now, the dress that appears to be blue/black to certain people and gold/brown to others, well it seems it has to do to what kind of light you are most used …
How to demolish the oligarchy in 3 easy steps
American democracy has been tainted by lobbying and corporate interests. How do we fix it? Blow it all up
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/24/how_to_demolish_the_oligarchy_in_3_easy_steps/
This is a nice clean summary of some of the pivotal …
Semantic battle among physicists forces a restatement of their stance on climate change
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060016675
Semantics is very important in science and I agree that the 2007 version was non-scientific:
…The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating
Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/
This is sort of a re-tweet, but having studied a bit of the science behind cryptography over the years (I once ‘invented’ an encryption algorithm and …