latest poll analysis

well, due to a crummy turnout at the polls the results are pretty much worthless, not enough data to produce statistically significant conclusions. so go fly a kite. look at this, it's more russian stuff, can't get enough really, from a festival called "Arch stoyanie" that I first read about in PROJEKT magazine.
but you have to look at this slideshow it's beautiful.

http://www.arch.stoyanie.ru/eng/project/11/pr.html

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SPACE ANGELS

there's a part 3/4 of the way through this odd video where, you see....

"Just as sound bounces off walls of a canyon, so too can light waves create an echo by bouncing off dust clouds in space. The light from these echoes travels a longer path than the light that travels straight toward us, and so can be seen hundreds of years after the supernova itself."

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/snr0509/E509_lg_web.mpg

!!LLOP WEN GNIGAGNE

THANK YOU MEGANOM!!!!!

i have a lot to blog about

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self sustained backpack vegetable garden
enclosed = source of oxygen in polluted atmospheres
outputs = inputs
calories/square inch

drawings soon


Bring Quantum Reality

Time established for transfer

Questions Paths to More

Mars a new place to hunt

Mantis shrimp vision reveals new way that animals can see

Scientists say early Americans arrived earlier

Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands

Children with healthier diets do better in school

Death of massive star creates brightest burst ever seen

Good Marriage Equals Good Blood Pressure

Mars, Earth, Moon Grew Up In Unique Planetary Nursery

"mind-control headsets will be on shelves later this year" - EMOTIV INC.

READING DREAMS

meteorite impact... or something else?

last year in a dry riverbed in peru an object struck the surface of the earth, gouging out a crater 15m in diameter. People up to 20 kilometers from the crater reported hearing an explosion – presumably the impact. Windows were shattered at the local health center a kilometer from the site. Locals who visited the hole complained of headaches, nausea, and a foul sulphuric smell. a cloud of dust and vapor released by the impact drifted downwind and was blamed for the death of livestock.

the news media speculated wildly until a seemingly unsubstantiated consensus was reached that the back-woods Peruvians were afflicted only with mass hysteria. the story was shuffled off the front pages. but it turns out that the mystery goes deeper.

most meteorites that actually make it to the surface of the earth are metallic objects that are able to deform into more aerodynamic shapes as they plummet through the atmosphere. however, a team of researches who were dispatched to the site found evidence that this crater was not caused by a metallic meteorite but a stony meteorite.

essentially big space rocks, stony meteors always break up in the atmosphere, and if a small piece makes it through it has usually been slowed down by the thick air. the impact has the force of a bowling ball dropped from an airplane. a divet, not a crater results. based on how far dirt was thrown and the shape of the crater, this object was traveling at approximately 15,000mph when it hit. at those speeds any stony meteor would have fragmented and incinerated as it passed through the atmosphere.

Peter Schultz a geologist from Brown University investigated the site. “This just isn’t what we expected,” Schultz said. “It was to the point that many thought this was fake. It was completely inconsistent with our understanding how stony meteorites act... this meteorite kept on going at a speed about 40 to 50 times faster than it should have been going.”

So what was this object? too fast and too big to be a stony meteor, not enough iron to be a metallic meteor, and apparently the cause of illness and animal death. a scuttled spy satellite? an errant missile? the first volley of attack from an alien force unleashing a new strain of microbe?

we don't know

kwiki poll results

well the waiting is finally over, and the results of the new poll have been analyzed.

it turns out that the majority of the world, a full 60%, is NOT SURE if they are in a band, however, a healthy 40% answer a definitive yes, they are playing soon AND have a CD for sale, and a whopping 40% insist that they are affiliated with a band of merry thieves... so hold on to those wallets you capitalistic pigs! and.... interestingly enough, only 20% of the world are not in a band but play guitar.

this has been really informative, thank you

NEWS ALERT!!! UPDATE!! WE MADE A BRAND NEW POLL FOR YOU TO VOTE ON!

hello everybody!
To begin, thanks for making the first few weeks of blogging a BIG HIT! just to recap, in the first two weeks we:

-made content bigger
-zeroed all waiting time for polls


YES!

and now we have a new "KWIKI-POLL"(C)(TR)(R)(PCR)

only two days left to vote! click all the good looking boxes you want!

“they suddenly noticed each other, synchronized their motions, and danced together indefinitely,”

Microbiota, the bacteria, archeae, and yeasts that cohabit with us in a commensal union around a shared table. there are 10 times as many bacterial cells in our bodies than human cells.

We know so little about them that the estimated number of bacteria species in the body ranges from 500 to 100,000. every square inch of our skin, mouth, stomach, and digestive tract are slicked with another scale of life.

while we can survive without their assistance it would not be pleasant; 30% of our useful calories come from carbohydrates bacteria have broken into simple blocks our pedigreed cells can stomach, the hormones they secrete direct our cells where and when to store fat, bactera synthesize vitamin k, folic acid, and B7.

we can be considered obligatory mutualists with this zoo. yet there are hordes of microorganisms that can make us ill or perhaps just change our behavior (Taxoplasma gondii may makes men insecure while giving a warmheart to the women... HERE)

one of the most important functions of our native flora is to keep the pathogenic types from setting up shop and giving us health troubles. we are large vessels that maintain optimal conditions for bacteria, fungus, and archaea, three of the oldest organisms on the planet. we are their habitat and just as we depend on them they depend on us. the wars they wage on our behalf, the mental clarity of health they give us, go unnoticed and we shovel in sugars and they prosper. like automatons programmed to spread & multiply, providing innumerable guts & hands that share beds, have sex, exchange money, stay warm, and continually engulf food. the perfect shell.

SURVERY RESULTS ARE INN!

Congratulations to everyone who voted in the last survey, your IP address has been entered to win a brand new 1-P0D. sorry for the delay, i know the poll closed over a day ago, but i had some statistics i wanted to run on the data.

based on the data, it looks like the overall attitude of Americans is positive, despite the coming hard times. so that's good news. and let's hope that the yes's win.

it turns out that moths remember being caterpillars

plastic recycling appliance

Everything should either be a technical or biological nutrient.

Think about all the plastic items we may be using every day. Some of it we recycle, some of it we donate when we’re done, and some we just throw away where it’s buried in the ground or thrown in the ocean and never goes away. But what if we kept all the plastic we got, and reused it in our own home?

In any household there are large appliances. I think there should be another appliance to buy. A recycling bin, an oven, and a 3-D printer in one. All the plastic items we’re done using can be fed into this machine, where they’re melted down and used as the raw material to print out new objects. Programmed presets would satisfy most needs. Coat hangers, bowls, cups, planters, boothbrushes, bottles, buckets... you could print out pieces of a chair and bolt them together. Enough bricks to make a house. When you were done with an object, feed it back into the appliance and make a brand new thing

The technology is there, currently looking for investors.

plants moving

plants moving with the sun from Nathan Hodges on Vimeo.

SEEDS JUST GROW.

THE BASIL CONTINUES ITS AMAZING JOURNEY OF LIFE from Nathan Hodges on Vimeo.

ant trap

Untitled from Nathan Hodges on Vimeo.

SURVEY UPDATE!

Hello everybody,
thanks so much for making the survey so far a GREAT success, we have had FIVE votes, which is way more than I expected so THANKS! We still have three days to vote so please vote again.

THE MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY OF TRAFFIC FLOW

"If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred.

electricity EVERYWHERE

this is a corn root growing in a gel medium under the influence of a very weak DC electromagnetic field. normally the root would grow straight down. A is taken 3hr after the field started being applied, and B was taken 24hr after the field stopped being applied. note how the B root has just started growing downwards again. FROM:

Influence of a Weak DC Electric Field on Root Meristem Architecture
Wojciech Wawrecki and Beata Zagórska-Marek
annals of botany, august 2007.