Flares into Darkness

Above is a video of a digital adder that uses water instead of electrons. I know Boolean logic and binary math so I understood how the bin...

For your amusement on this hump day Ma and Pa Kettle do some math.   

Why we dream . The joy of mephedrone . Vix doesn't seem to be worth much . Electromagnetic armor. Where's the missing oil ...

Real lives in North Korea . Quark soup at 4 trillion degrees Celsius. Japan's Mengele experiments . The mathematical formula for ...

The proud and sad history of the Detroit oligopoly . Now we know: almost all matter is nothing but quantum fluctuations in the vacuum. Mass...

(Apologies for today's tardiness.) Which Obama will we get? Dubhe is not in the moving group . Iran's new naval base . The end of e...

Democracy won. Rescuing children from forced marriage —in England. Carbon nanotubes was the secret of Damascus steel . China's secret A...

Impossible fractals . The world's fastest train . Easy to gain, very hard to lose . A Stasi for England . /Honey_of_a_discovery"...

Is the Taleban winning ? Your dog is smarter than a wolf . 45 beautiful motion-blur photos . Totalitarian games . The next President will di...

Can Betz's Law be broken with cleverer technology? Hitchcock redux . Incarceration reduces crime . What is it doing with all that infor...

Introducing Bored . Tuning out news of American success . Eight years of wrongness . Their time has almost come. More human feet washing on...

The rise of the rest . Women to avoid . Paul Nylander's differential equations blog. Robobugs coming to a war near you. More women to...

For 10 pts: If Ling-Ling is wearing a short skirt, and Bao Yu is sitting 160cms from her, then how long must her skirt be to prevent a Bri...

The year in robots . The shrinking of the Chinese economy . Why knots are so common . The rebirth of Timisoara . Fashions of the future, as...

Invisible solar nano-cells to the rescue? 55 must-see movies for 2008 . The most expensive college coach in America. North Atlantic cod mi...

Bacteria like space . The Minneapolis of southeast Asia . Ambisinistral's and Skookumchuk's piracy and maritime links . The end o...

Software radio . Simpson's movie scenes . Happiness is a warm electrode . Mashups for the masses. Birth of a sunspot . 6 days are show...

... or it proves the universe is sufficiently wonderful on its own. Either way, watch.

I've just added a new blog to our blogroll, Kings and Cabbages , run by "moscowgrumbler" (Sergey). He claims to be a mathemati...