Two minutes of wonder

Amazing piece of animation made from NASA pictures. Also, thanks Trent Reznor, for releasing Ghosts under a Creative Commons license. Your music works well here.

CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.

Bit o' TMDR

Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson, that is.

Game. Over.

Be still my nerd heart.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider Webcam

Not as directly informative as some other sites on the subject, but still worth a peek.

I promise.

Geeking Out

If there's one thing I've been anticipating for years now, it's the new James Cameron science fiction film set for release in Summer 2009.

Here's a big long geeky interview with the King of the Assholes about the 3D technology used for the film.

Get those 3D glasses ready.

Happy Pi Day!

3/14 - The logical day to celebrate everybody's favorite transcendental concept relating the diameter of a circle to its circumference.

Which makes it the perfect time to post this video, which is one of my favorite net finds EVER:



And for Hex, the "You're the Man Now Dog" treatment.

The Only Thing We Have to Fear is... Well... Nothing

Those crazy MIT scientists are at it again, this time identifying a molecular basis for fear and subverting it in mice.

They isolated a protein-changing enzyme called Cdk5, the inhibition of which "facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context".

Li-Heui Tsai, resident extremely smart dude, says this of the research: "This data points to a promising therapeutic avenue to treat emotional disorders and raises hope for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or phobia."

Possibly related - an alarming number of MIT grad students ask for dates. With GIRLS.