From the “rise of the machines” department, and coming to a fake news story near you comes this troubling development that blurs the lines of reality and fantasy even further.…
Category: Curious things
Atmospheric Monthly Moisture Waves for the Full Atmosphere – or something else?
Guest essay by Michael Wallace, Hydrologist I’m sharing something which likely has been observed and perhaps even written widely about, yet I cannot find examples in the popular or peer…
Spectacular UFO reported in Siberia
The Siberian Times reports: Reports of spectacular UFO – a giant glowing ball lighting the sky – in Siberia Fears from locals of ‘aliens arriving’, but there is a surprising explanation…
Can a Napa winery run on a generator, not PG&E, forever?
HT/care5health, who also posed the following questions. I’m not a Californian, and this raises questions. 1. The stated reason for the generator is the high cost of running power lines.…
Northern Journeys
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I just got back from going up north to see my friends, to investigate core drills for gold ore sampling … oh, and to see…
The last survivors on Earth
From Eurekalert Public Release: 14-Jul-2017 University of Oxford The world’s most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies,…
Cutting The Grass
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Sufi stories of the wisdom of the foolish Mulla Nasrudin have been around for a thousand years or more. One of them tells how the…
Cool science: Watch water droplets navigate a maze
From the American Chemical Society. WASHINGTON — Have you ever seen a drop of water navigate a maze? It’s possible thanks to the same phenomenon that lets you know if…
New Tech: US flag could act as a speaker to play the National Anthem
This is curious new technology; imagine the US Flag being able to play the National Anthem from the flagpole! How scientists turned a flag into a loudspeaker MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY…
Mysterious flashes of light from Earth captured by NASA satellite
WASHINGTON, DC — One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet. The homeward-facing instrument on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory,…
Finding: tropical storms produce radiation bursts
NASA’s Fermi Catches Gamma-ray Flashes from Tropical Storms About a thousand times a day, thunderstorms fire off fleeting bursts of some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. These…
Researchers solve the century-old mystery of Blood Falls
From the UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, and the “at least they didn’t blame climate change” department: A research team led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Colorado College has…
Science is making killer (tasting) tomatoes again
From the “Day of the Killer Tomatoes” department comes this curious story from the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY about food science and making tomatoes great again…at least the store bought ones.…
Film “The Martian” was right, experiment suggests potatoes CAN grow on Mars
From the INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER / CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE LA PAPA and the “do you want fires with that interplanetary travel” department comes this interesting finding that I thought worth…
A medical case for 'hotness'
This came up in my feed today, and while it isn’t our usual fare about “heat”, but given the benefits touted by the study, I thought it was a good…
Eat Chocolate. Save the Planet.
Guest essay by Charles Rotter aka “Charles the Moderator” (Note from Anthony: Working behind the scenes all these years, Charles has earned the right for a little self promotion here,…
New nano-scale sensors may sniff out terrorists
From the MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY Nanosensors on the alert for terrorist threats Scientists interested in the prospects of gas sensors based on binary metal oxide nanocomposites Scientists from…
I wonder how John Podesta missed this alert email from Google? #podestaemails @wikileaks
There’s been lots of claims that “Russian Hackers” were at work in the hacking of Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. While I can’t verify this one way or the…
Seeing death skulls in hurricane #Matthew
I couldn’t help but notice this headline on the Drudge Report today: Here is the actual satellite image of Hurricane #Matthew, as Tweeted by The Weather Channel’s Stu Ostro: This is a…
The Sinkhole – Our Descent into the Next Ice Age
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Back in May, Climate scientist Ed Hawkins published a scary spiral graph which appeared to show global warming leaping out at you. As a homage…
You must be logged in to post a comment.