Tuesday, October 17, 2006
The brain is just like your body, if you don’t use it regularly, it will lose efficiency and will decay. This project is not going to help as people we’ll rely more and more on devices rather their own memory.
I thought toes will be the part of the human body that will disappear progressively as a result of the modern life but it looks like the brain is a good contender too 
Microsoft researcher wants to back up your brain.: “‘The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that’s as good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and will remember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears, eyes, whatever,’ Microsoft’s Bell said of his experiment.”
(Via digg.)
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The screwworms are really scary. The tongue-biter is amazing.
Six horrifying parasites: “Mark Frauenfelder:
Neatorama has a nice article about six sickening parasites.
A female sacculina begins life as a tiny free-floating slug in the sea, drifting around until she encounters a crab. When that fateful day arrives, she finds a chink in the crab’s armor (usually an elbow or leg joint) and thrusts a kind of hollow dagger into its body. After that, she (how to put this?) ‘injects’ herself into the crab, sluicing through the dagger and leaving behind a husk. Once inside, the jellylike sacculina starts to take over. She grows ‘roots’ that extend to every part of the crab’s body — wrapping around its eyestalks and deep into its legs and arms. The female feeds and grows until eventually she pops out of the top of the crab, and from this knobby protrusion, she will steer the Good Ship Unlucky Crab for the rest of their co-mingled life. Link(Thanks, Frank!)
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(Via Boing Boing.)
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Good morning,
A little fun to start this hot day:
Garage door remote triggers man’s erection: ”
Hard luck for implant chap
An anonymous Merseyside man who had an implant to ‘help with erection problems’ has found he becomes uncontrollably aroused every time his neighbour pulls up in his 4X4, the Scottish Daily Record reports.…
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(Via The Register.)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Is he going to be the real-world DareDevil, or one of a mutated (with superpower) form of human being 
Life is really amazing.
Boy uses sound to see: “David Pescovitz:
People magazine profiles Ben Underwood, a blind 14-year-old who apparently uses echolocation to ’see.’ Ben, sightless since the age of 3, makes loud clicking noises with his tongue and then listens for the echo. According to the article, he can not only detect distance but sometimes the material of an object based on how soft, dense, or sharp the echo is.
Link to People, More on human echolocation here and here
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(Via Boing Boing.)
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
This map is supposed to represent the quietest and loudest places in London.
Interesting? not at this resolution, as it kind of states the obvious: the quiet places (black) that can be easily noticed are … the parks and gardens. What a suprise.
It would be more interesting if the statistical data could be mapped on Google Earth which allows you to zoom in. That way you can really spot the quietest urban areas and maybe follows the noise trails.
read more | digg story
Friday, May 12, 2006
Yellow Dust on BBC Weather
Yellow Peril on BBC news>Yellow peril on BBC news
On lunchtime news on BBC1, they were talking about “pollen cloud from Scandinavia” 