January 22, 2012
From the notes:
Seismometers from the EarthScope project Transportable Array measured the up-and-down motion of the ground from the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that occurred in Virginia on August 23, 2011. You can see the waves move across the country! Red is upward motion; blue down. The height of the wave was only 22 microns!
January 21, 2012
This was created by Matt Might, a computer science professor at the University of Utah. We contacted him, and he gave us permission to post it here.
As an intro, Matt writes:
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is.
It’s hard to describe it in words.
So, I use pictures.
Here is “The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.”
Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:
By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:
January 20, 2012
Here’s how this conversation might have gone among these kids:
Kid 1: Oh look – a mobile phone!
Kid 2: Cool! Let’s look and see if there are any photos on it!
Kid 3: Wait, what the…
All Kids Present: OHMYGOD!!!!
British police are investigating the discovery of macabre pictures on a mobile found by children including one of an embalmer laughing as he holds up a severed head.
The picture features a man named as David Amor smirking at the camera.
Children found the mobile phone in a ditch.
There are three images on the phone showing the body, the Daily Mail newspaper reported.
The person is believed to have been hit and killed by a train.
January 20, 2012
Etta James has left us at the age of 73. Here’s a nice writeup from the newspaper of her original hometown. That was one big, hard, beautiful life.
This is a nice video, for the haunting song and performance, and for the slow display of wonderful images. Really nice job.
January 19, 2012
This premiers tomorrow, and it’s based on a story that has needed a major motion-picture for a long, long time.
January 17, 2012
And it’s a doozy:
Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard was “heavily involved” in “murder, car-jackings … and the sale of drugs [and] illegal guns”, according to a newly released FBI report. The FBI’s 93-page file on ODB, revealed in a Freedom of Information request, connects the rapper with a litany of serious crimes in the late 80s and 90s.
The documents were obtained by Rich Jones of the Gun.io blog, who filed a formal request for information on Russell Tyrone Jones, aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2004. It took the FBI less than a week to respond with its file, consisting of redacted police reports, court proceedings and news clippings. All have been posted online.
January 17, 2012
It is time to prepare for the Super Bowl again. While we are still not sure which teams will be playing in the big game, we all know that Super Bowl XLVI will be played in Indianapolis and there will lots of parties. To help you prepare for the big day, we are giving away a book gift packet complete with The NFL’s Top 100, a cookbook with mouth-watering recipes, a pictorial history of Indianapolis, and of course, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Sports Spectacular.
