No. Really. “After the investigators got the ultrasound field going, they used tweezers to carefully place animals between the emitter and reflector. The scientists found they could float ants, beetles, spiders, ladybugs, bees, tadpoles and fish up to a little more than a third of an inch long in midair. When they levitated the fish [...]
…that I almost beat the shit out of a Greenpeace proselytizer this afternoon? Because I don’t think it is. It wasn’t about Greenpeace; it was about her pushiness. She tried to schmooze me, which got her the look. We all have our own version of the look. When she told me this pitch would only [...]
“Using advanced imaging techniques, an Anglo-Greek team probed the remaining fragments of the complex geared device. The results, published in the journal Nature, show it could have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses. The elaborate arrangement of bronze gears may also have displayed planetary information.” Ah, interesting. They’re been speculating wildly about this [...]
While looking through the Needless Markup Neiman Marcus catalog today, I spotted this perfume bottle. There’s something about it that is just a tiny bit …unnerving: I can’t quite put my finger on it. … I don’t want to put my finger on it frankly.
“Furniture behemoth Ikea is to begin trials of an online service in Nottingham this week. If the experiment goes well – and there’s no reason to think it won’t – the service could go nationwide within a year. This is the beginning of the end of what has become known as the Ikea Experience, a [...]
“Missing from the report is a sensitivity to the ennobling nature of knowledge: to the inherent value, with consequences too far-reaching to enumerate, of understanding how the world works. For one thing, it is a remarkable fact that we have come to understand as much as we do about the natural world: the history of [...]