There are no hover boards yet, but there is this

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/

Shaming the "day moon"

I think this new Pete Holmes show got some potential. Lots of off the cuff riffing and funny time moments.

In this clip Rory Scovel (eventually) does his bit about the day moon.
"Get out of here! You don't see the Sun coming out in the nighttime do ya? Show some respect"

A sci-fi playlist, for sci-fi people

Here are a few songs with a science fiction feel to them, you know what I mean?

Effective population

I came across this idea here. The effective size of a given population is, from what I understand, the minimum idealized number of individuals you would need from that population to reproduce the genetic diversity of the actual population. It's not easy to find an explanation of this stuff in layman's terms, but this article at genomena.com seems relatively understandable. Actually, here is one in Scientific American that goes over all this stuff, and very briefly.

Up close

real close. All of the following images were obtained using an electron microscope.

Beard hair. On the left is a hair cut with a straight blade, and on the right with an electric shaver

And what we had imagined we believed.

It was always a goal of mine to write here just what it is that I believe. To commit it to the cloud and be done with it. When you think about it, it's a very vague question to answer - "what do you believe?" - I mean, there is so much I believe about so many different things! But everyone knows what that question is asking, so lets get to the point: when you boil life and existence down to their fundamentals what do you believe is left? What of God and all that?

Ancient Aliens

I had heard of Ancient Aliens before last night, mostly through the alien guy meme,

Exhibit A:

But I had never witnessed the profound silliness of it firsthand...

Utopia

A couple of weeks ago I picked up this book called "A World Elsewhere" by Bernard Levin at a used bookstore. It was slim pickings there at the time, and though I had never heard of the book it was only 4 dollars, so why not? Plus it really sounded interesting, having to do with the various incarnations of Utopia throughout the ages. So, like, what's the deal with Utopia?