I grok this.

On June 2nd the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) mission will finally launch, after multiple delays. This is supposed to be the first step of NASA's plan to return to the moon permanently by 2020.

However, what really excites me about this mission isn't the LRO! I am far more interested in a piggyback mission: LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation ( Read more... )

Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning:
Using DNA taken from these skin samples, the scientists were able to replace the genetic material in eggs from domestic goats, to clone a female Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as they are known. It is the first time an extinct animal has been cloned.

Of course it wasn't exactly Jurassic Park:
Sadly, the newborn ( Read more... )

It appears that global warming can have an upside, if you live in Greenland.

What he said.

Atheist and evolution blogger P.Z. Myers was ejected from a screening of a pro-creationism film because the director didn't want him to attend. The punch-line is delicious!

Five months ago I wrote a futurism essay about a possible technology which would change picture taking forever: Capturing a perfect moment.

Today Immersive Media publicly announced their Dodeca 2360 camera. Yeah, pretty close to the first generation of the technology I predicted. No, I didn't know about this beforehand ( Read more... )

This is a kind of reverse futurism: 'How Sputnik changed your life'.

As always with Ken, the essay swerves all over the epistemological map; pushing memes before it into a gigantic, tangled heap that somehow looks like a patchwork temple to Athena when he gets to the last sentence. (How does he do that?)

End result? A case study in the Lancet. Of course...

We've all been there. That perfect moment that you want to last forever. Maybe it is a sunset and a lover watching it with you. Maybe it is a child's first steps, a box of puppies on a sunny day, or a steelhead taking the hook at your favorite fishing hole. Maybe it is hearing an old song in a new way at a rock concert. Maybe it is simply standing ( Read more... )