From Kottke via 37signals, trap-jaw ants that use their jaws to fling themselves high into the air:
Pretty darn cool.
The Archives: Science
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My brother-in-law told me about The Itch today at dinner, and holy smokes, that’s fascinating. In a morbid sort of way. (Just wait till you get to …
According to National Geographic (thanks to Sally for the link), “nearly all of today’s Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to …
Alas, the Internet connection at our apartment was down when I got home late last night, so my daily posting stride has been tripped up. :P (Not that it …
Yesterday I was talking with my friend Hilary about a quote I found in Lewis Thomas’s The Medusa and the Snail the other day, and I realized that it’s actually …
Many of you may have heard of Einstein’s famous quote: “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit …
Ben: Hey, it’s you again.
Plato: You did summon me here.
Ben: I did?
Plato: Sure. It’s an easy way out when you don’t know what you’re going to write about. …
I miss science. True, linguistics is a science of sorts, but I mean physics and chemistry and biology and math and all that. The hard sciences. Looking …
Yesterday Meridian Magazine came out with an excellent article by Orson Scott Card that tears global warming to shreds. Everyone needs to read this. Everyone. Card …
Came across an interesting post on if:book about A Million Penguins, which is Penguin’s attempt to write a novel collaboratively through a wiki.
So is the novel immune from …
Over at The Edge last year, they asked the question “What is your dangerous idea?” to the world’s leading thinkers, and got quite a lot of answers. …
12. USBcell
From Read/WriteWeb, a battery that charges through a USB port:
Ingenious.
[tags]USBcell, USB, batteries[/tags]
From information aesthetics, check out this sweet animation of life inside a cell:
Biology has never …
14. Inside out
From Thought Provoking Message of the Day, I read about the “Worm Whisperer” this morning. Quite interesting — Kelly Dorgan “has challenged a century-old theory, endorsed by …
It’s been a few months since I last played around with Google Earth, and I read in the Google blog about engineers using Google Earth to move a …
16. Twenty feet up
I am Bach. Er, back.
Going two days without the Internet was interesting. I was fine as long as I didn’t think about it, but when I did, I …
I don’t often touch on the sciences here (and even Outside the Box is mostly programming), which is a pity. So today I ran across Jeff Han’s work …
While reading The Origin of Species, I got to thinking more about the existence of classics in any given field. By “classic,” I mean the seminal books that virtually …
Evolution.
So now that you’re ready for a comment-hungry post, we’ll begin. :P
Yesterday in our C.S. Lewis Society meeting, we briefly touched on evolution (along with a handful of other aspects …
