So I think I decided what I want for Christmas… A Scubacraft (I saw it in Wired magazine).
It’s basically a boat that you can hit a button, and it will go underwater (up to 100 feet). It would be pretty awesome to go scuba diving and instead of leaving your boat at the surface, […]

So there was that astronaut chick a couple days ago that tried to murder and kidnap someone, and I guess I missed this part the other day, but it makes the whole thing a whole lot funnier.
…the sordid detail that Nowak drove 900 miles from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper so […]

Sweet… how would you like to be isolated on the International Space Station with a murderer?
NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak was ordered released Tuesday on an additional $10,000 bond on an attempted murder charge in Orlando, where she allegedly tried to subdue a purported romantic rival with pepper spray and kidnap her from […]

Hmmm… concrete that eats pollution. That’s pretty slick if you ask me.
The results so far are astonishing: A street in the town of Segrate, near Milan, with an average traffic of 1,000 cars per hour, has been repaved with the compound, “and we have measured a reduction in nitric oxides of around 60%,” says […]

“It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,” Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions […]

I can’t wait until you can just cut off your own arms and legs and get some of these things by choice.
Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic” arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her […]

On August 25, 2006, I published some information that turned out to be entirely false. I sincerely apologize to those of you that I inadvertently mislead with this post.
In that entry, I stated that I didn’t get stitches from my surgery. But new information has come to light this morning that now leads […]

I changed my little bandage thing today and uhm… I have no stitches. I have a 3 inch incision in my abdomen and I have no stitches. Does anyone besides me think that’s a little weird? What if my guts came spilling out or something if I cough too hard? […]

I ended up taking 4 Vicodin last night, and it doesn’t do a God damn thing for me except make me feel like I’m about to puke. Certainly didn’t help with the pain.
So I don’t think I’m going to take anymore pain killers. Which I guess is a moot point because as long […]

I had my incisional hernia repair surgery today, and it was quick and easy…
But now after the surgery, it straight up feels like I was stabbed with an 8″ blade in my gut, and then someone jammed it around in there just for good measure. Thank God I waited until after Costa Rica to […]

I’ve had to give lots of blood lately. 2 vials were taken before I went to Costa Rica, a stone wall took some of my blood in Costa Rica, and then someone else wanted 1 vial of blood today.
Too bad we haven’t perfected human cloning yet. Then I could have myself cloned and […]

They aren’t the first to do it, but these guys took it to a whole new level.

That’s so much Diet Coke that the chemicals in it are probably going to kill the grass and trees behind them.
http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html

Hmmm… alien microbes that fell in India? Odd but (maybe) true…

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics […]

Hmmm… John Quincy St. Clair has filed an interesting patent with the US patent office back in 2004. A “Full body teleportation system”. He must have also invented a time machine and traveled back from the future to file the patent.
View patent filing here
(via digg)

Some interesting stuff here… light traveling at speeds other than the speed of light (slower, faster and backwards)…
Boyd, along with Rochester graduate students George M. Gehring and Aaron Schweinsberg, and undergraduates Christopher Barsi of Manhattan College and Natalie Kostinski of the University of Michigan, sent a burst of laser light through an optical fiber that […]

Cool.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Technology/story?id=1796227
There’s a new product in development that could change your nightly ritual forever.
The Wrigley Gum Company has paired up with the U.S. military to create an anti-bacterial chewing gum that actually cleans teeth so soldiers wouldn’t have to stop what they’re doing to brush their pearly whites.
If the military signs on to […]

Can someone please try this and tell me if it really works?

I saw this a couple weeks ago, and just now ran across it again. Dammit, I forgot to post it the first time around… oh well… better late than never.

An extraordinary family who walk on all fours are being hailed as the breakthrough discovery which could shed light on the moment Man first stood […]

Those crazy Russian scientists… always doing interesting/werid stuff.
Apparently back in the 1940s they were running experiments where they were bringing animals back from the dead…
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=316

I’m not sure why, but the video oddly makes me want to try it myself to see if it really works.

UpdateWe confirmed that this does work. We didn’t quite have as good of a technique for getting the Mentos into the 2 liter bottle as quickly, but it […]

If you are feeling rather dorky, and have about 5 minutes, this is an interesting video…

I saw a commercial for some drug to help combat “restless leg syndrome” where you have a tingling feeling in your legs, and you have the urge to move/shift your legs. Is this a real thing?
Why do I feel like maybe a drug manufacturer made up this “disease”?
Maybe if your body is telling you […]

Some dudes at UC Riverside think they may have created molecules that meld matter with antimatter…
Allen Mills of the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues say they have seen telltale signs of positronium molecules, made from two positronium atoms1.
Positronium is an other-worldly mimic of hydrogen. In a hydrogen atom, a negatively charged electron moves […]

Stare at the center of this image for a couple seconds and watch the pink dots turn green.
Stare at it a bit longer and the pink dots totally disappear and you are left with one rotating green dot.

Last night there was the craziest thunder and lightning storm I’ve ever seen. I swear it seemed like it was right outside my window. The thunder was like an earthquake and every time it hit you could hear car alarms going off everywhere in the neighborhood.
Scripps pier is the closest pier to me […]

This picture is about a week old, but it’s still pretty cool. But I forgot about those two rovers that NASA has cruising around Mars (Spirit and Opportunity). They landed in January of 2004, and were supposed to be operational for 90 days. More than a year and a half later, both […]