What does the undersea world of the internet look like? This:
Click the image to see the full size version at The Guardian.
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For example, I knew you would click on that.
Oh how coy.
Anyway, an article in The Guardian ("The brain scan that can read people's intentions") reports on this: "A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and…
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." -Ambrose Bierce
The most common emails I get about this blog are questions about physics, astronomy, and some very speculative theories. But second most common are questions asking where I get my pictures.
Well, except in rare…
"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves." -Antonio Tabucchi
It's one…
Have you been keeping up with The Boston Globe's Hubble Advent Calendar? Today's picture is totally worth talking about, and gives me a chance to tell you about these little guys that just hang-on to our galaxy: globular clusters. When you look out at a galaxy -- pretty much any galaxy -- you'll…
Remarkable "coincidence" that three cables to the Mideast were cut in one week, eh? (wink, wink)
See http://technocrat.net/d/2008/2/3/35548
Four now.
The sequential breaking of submarine submarine cables in 1929 led to the understanding of turbidity currents (triggered by an earthquake off Nova Scotia). Perhaps curious sedimentologists are trying to learn something in the Mideast.