This is an awesome little Flash thingie that helps you get a sense of the scale of things in biology.

Leading politicians in the U.S. are more and more anti-science. This is a terrifying trend for the most powerful nation in the world.

Today the Atlantis will be the last Space Shuttle to launch. Here's looking back at thirty years of the Space Shuttle.

This is a cool video from Bell Labs (1968) that explains the basics on how computer works and whether they can think of not. Forty years later we can see how the principles apply, the challenges are the same - but a lot of progress has been made on all these fronts. Very well made.

Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.
Very interesting read.

With an iPhone, Droid, and Flip

Cool photos!

I had never heard of this island. Very interesting.

Interesting stuff, but what do people with a flat foot do?

Excellent 19 page strip about homeopathy. If you know anyone who believes in this shit, this is a quick way to educate such person, presented in an easy to digest comic strip format.

Great article on how altitude affectsnthe physics of soccer and the physiological effects on the players.

Pokes into the psychology of people that deny scientific facts when it clashes with their beliefs.

This is impressive. I hope I live to see these things fully cloned.

What he says I've wanted to say to so many "reasonable, educated people" but I'm not as eloquent.

Awesome bubble graph (with link to source Google doc).

Cool cool cool video.

This was done by some Application Engineers at work using equipment we make. It's a very neat demo. I stared at that old car from my window for months. Congratulations!

How green is your pet? - environment - 23 October 2009 - New Scientist