Today’s dose of self-medication. (Happy Hawkeaster!)
- DNA transistors are one example of how future computers will take many different forms.
- The aliens beat us to it: does the terrestrial genetic code contain a “Wow! signal” (pdf)?
- Richard Smoley and Mitch Horowitz discuss the state of the occult: 2013.
- 12 million Americans believe lizard people run the country.
- Why rain smells so good.
- Can music be more effective than drugs?
- How to produce a 3D printed skeleton from a CT scan of a living animal.
- Robot dragonfly takes to the air.
- Astrophysicist uses statistics to seek Shakespeare‘s identity.
- How parallel universes actually work.
- The cursed ring that may have inspired Tolkien.
- C. S. Lewis and H. P. Lovecraft on loathing and longing for alien worlds.
- English farmer makes vodka from cow’s milk.
- Ham press turns out to be $5M meteorite.
- A couple of days late for this but: Conspiratorial cosmology – the case against the Universe, from the Journal of Comparative Irrelevance (pdf).
Quote of the Day:
“Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change… If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual’s circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don’t have life after death; you just have death.”
Iain Banks, Look to Windward
