House Dust Yields Clue to Asthma - Roaches - NYTimes.com
Some crazy scientist decided to study what's actually in people's houses, giving them allergies, and found it was bits of roach. Cleanliness is important!
Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory - Series - NYTimes.com
This is simultaneously creepy and awesome. Pro: perhaps memory can be improved with this drug. Con: your memories can be erased. Some people think erasing bad memories would be beneficial, but I disagree. How would we know what to avoid, what to work for, if we didn't have our memories of how things were?
Category:Nephila pilipes - Wikimedia Commons
I've been meaning to show a picture of one of the spiders we've got here in Taiwan. These things are huge - when they walk on the wood of my closet, I can hear their feet thumping softly.
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Araneomorphi
You can also see some more pictures if you click here:
Nephila
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
This is something I've been meaning to link to for a while. The government tells us to greatly fear these people...but...I think we should be more concerned about them harming themselves.
Oh, and something somewhat related:
Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
A series of eight essays, proposing different reasons why we haven't been attacked, ranging from the "terrorists are idiots" theory, all the way to "they don't need to right now - they are waiting until they can do the most possible damage again."
Some crazy scientist decided to study what's actually in people's houses, giving them allergies, and found it was bits of roach. Cleanliness is important!
Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory - Series - NYTimes.com
This is simultaneously creepy and awesome. Pro: perhaps memory can be improved with this drug. Con: your memories can be erased. Some people think erasing bad memories would be beneficial, but I disagree. How would we know what to avoid, what to work for, if we didn't have our memories of how things were?
Category:Nephila pilipes - Wikimedia Commons
I've been meaning to show a picture of one of the spiders we've got here in Taiwan. These things are huge - when they walk on the wood of my closet, I can hear their feet thumping softly.
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Araneomorphi
You can also see some more pictures if you click here:
Nephila
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
This is something I've been meaning to link to for a while. The government tells us to greatly fear these people...but...I think we should be more concerned about them harming themselves.
Oh, and something somewhat related:
Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
A series of eight essays, proposing different reasons why we haven't been attacked, ranging from the "terrorists are idiots" theory, all the way to "they don't need to right now - they are waiting until they can do the most possible damage again."
