Thursday, July 3, 2008


All possible universes exist.
Findings, December 2007

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

sun tsunami


A giant tsunami was observed passing across the face of the sun.
Findings, February 2007

Friday, June 27, 2008

hmmmm.


A survey of old skulls revealed that Neolithic Britons had a one in fourteen chance of having their heads bashed in; most of the attacks were apparently carried out with blunt objects, though some skulls showed evidence of being hacked by stone axes and having their ears cut off.
Findings, July 2006

Thursday, June 26, 2008

vigorous convective activity in the southern hemisphere



Astronomers were surprised to discover that Uranus, previously thought to be somewhat boring, is actually quite stormy. "We have never seen such vigorous convective activity in the southern hemisphere before," said one. "Whatever is happening," said another, "has to be well lubricated; it has to be a low friction environment."
Findings, January 2005

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

dirt


The world's dirt was disappearing faster than ever before.
Findings, April 2008

Thursday, June 12, 2008

mediation


"And yet our seeing of things is always mediated by corneas, retinas, optic nerves, and some neural machinery that takes the information from the optic nerve and propagates it into our minds."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson pg. 994

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

extremely cold clouds.



Physicists at Harvard succeeded in capturing a light pulse by beaming it into an extremely cold cloud of sodium atoms; they then transferred some of the atoms into another cloud and shot it with a laser beam, whereupon the light pulse reappeared.
Findings, April 2008