Things I've seen on the web over the last two weeks that are far more important than either Kate & William's marriage or Osama Bin Laden's death. (Since when did the births, deaths, and marriages section become the headlines anyway?)

• Angela Belcher of MIT describes "growing" better batteries and solar cells with no toxic by-products using viruses ( Read more... )

Just followed a ling from Digg to Brainsturbator, where there is this capsule article on the Japanese inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu, or Dr. Nakamats as he's known there ( Read more... )

I suspect ferrouswheel will have already heard this first hand, but Wired points out James Miller's comments that whether The Singularity happens or not, it will change our world Long before there is a singularity, people will come to expect it... If you think there will be a machine-driven future then your top priority is to survive long enough to make it to ( Read more... )

Neil pointed to Ella Edmondsen's My Space account saying "She's going to be a star". I enjoyed it. She has Imogen Heap and The Mighty Boosh on her top friends page, so she's got some taste :)

Watched this TED lecture today by Theo Jansen. He's not much of a speaker, but he doesn't have to be, his art speaks for itself. More pictures and ( Read more... )

A new study has found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. Further analysis revealed that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation was greater for the vaginally orgasmic women.

• Scientists stop the ageing process in entire organs
• Green tea stops cancer

Well, maybe LED's light bulbs aren't the answer!

A technique known as electron stimulated luminescence (ESL). They work by accelerating electrons to stimulate a phosphor coating on the inside of a standard glass light bulb design. First prototypes are estimated at being able to produce 40 lumens per watt with a lifetime of about 6,000 hours ( Read more... )

Duplicating the water-splitting energy storage mechanism used by photosynthetic plants will allow any energy source to be stored in a rechargeable water based fuel cell.Basic process : Electrical energy, from any source, in, hydrogen & oxygen out and stored in fuel cell. .Fuel cell burns and combines hydrogen and oxygen into water and produces ( Read more... )

I'd welcome those off you out there who know more about this than I to validate whether the following text, recently published in American Physics, in a paper written by one Viscount Monkton, is a reasonable description of the facts or not :

"It is of no little significance that the IPCC’s value for the coefficient in the CO2 forcing equation ( Read more... )

Spandau Ballet's Through the Barricades just happens to be one of my favourite songs. Maybe because it makes me think of my first love, and the problems we had with her family and living in what, for a little white boy like me, was a war-zone. You saw 8 Mile? That coulda been something like me if the family hadn't moved from Porirua. At that time ( Read more... )