Aug
15th
Fri
15th
Wow! (reblog)
This is incredibly cool technology. Watch the whole thing, because it gets progressively crazier over time.
Aug
14th
Thu
14th
Physicists at the University of Geneva achieved the weird result by creating a pair of ‘entangled’ photons, separating them, then sending them down a fibre optic cable to the Swiss villages of Satigny and Jussy, some 18 kilometres apart. The researchers found that when each photon reached its destination, it could instantly sense its twin’s behaviour without any direct communication.
Aug
13th
Wed
13th
But what was to be made of the music choices blared out during the many pauses in this morning’s play: Blitzkrieg Bop, by the Ramones? Burning Down The House, by Talking Heads? Sex Bomb, by Tom Jones? If there is a gold medal for crass insensitivity this week, then the rest of the field might as well pack their bags and go home.
Aug
11th
Mon
11th
When considering a sport’s fitness to be an Olympic event it’s useful to apply the “does it really deserve to be here ahead of darts?” rule. The 800m is clearly better than darts. The javelin is free-range darts, darts in its most grandiose dreams of escape. A perspiring Austrian in a top hat doing horsey trot-trot to a supermarket music soundtrack is, let’s face it, some way short of darts.
