I've been meaning to create a thread on this for a while, but never seem to get around to it. I was reading the NYT today and finally got inspired.

Check out this article on slime molds. On the surface, they seem completely uninteresting, but they are actually pretty crazy.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/scien ... ef=science

I was hoping that would be the first post

Lions and crocodiles and water buffalo, OH MY!!!

Soren wrote:I was hoping that would be the first post

lol

alien shit here

I think I dated her once. I recognize the teeth.

This is pretty fucking neat

amazing. freaking science.

CalvinBall wrote:amazing. freaking science. HOW DOES IT WORK

I can edit posts!

As an aside, dry ice is pretty much the best stuff ever. We used to fuck around with it all the time in labs in college. I'm like a cat with one of those little mouse toys when I'm around it. All I do is bat it everywhere. Glad I was never around it drunk or I bet I'd have some frostbite by now.

Here are some pictures of neatass clouds:

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-unusual-b ... ations.php

as i looked through that and read each one, i kept thinking, "wow this one is awesome looking, it might end up being the best one." then i would scroll to the next one and then think the same thing.

Cyclops shark

A post in another thread reminded me I have some Michio Kaku stuff bookmarked.

How to Stop Robots From Killing Us

Soren wrote:your DNA remembers how you grew up

I think I posted something about epigenetics at some point in another thread. The really amazing thing is that DNA may remember what our parents and grandparents did in childhood. This information then gets passsed on and can actually influence our health beyond what is normally passed down genetically. For example, diabetes may be at least partially influenced by how much access to food our grandparents had as children.

The 19th century is sometimes referred to as the century of chemistry, and the 20th century as the century of physics. The 21st century will be the century of biology. I'll post a movie tonight if I can find it. It's called "What Darwin Never Knew." The first half of the movie just recants his life and the evolution (see what I did there) of his theory, but the second half talks about some cutting edge stuff in terms of how we are formed. All that DNA that people used to think didn't do much, it turns out, does do stuff, important stuff.

SO, thats how the BORG started

now i want to be a Trill

here it is. If you have a little under 2 hours and are into such things, it's a really interesting overview of where we are and how we got here. This is the first part. Like I said, it starts out with an overview of Darwin and how he came to believe what he believed, and then it switches gears and reviews what we now know about the development of species diversity.