National Geographic: The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know, according to study leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

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NASA Image of the Day: "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields, say researchers. These filaments are the only visible-light manifestation of the intricate relationship between the central black hole and the surrounding cluster gas. They provide important clues about how giant black holes affect their surrounding environment."

This is great!!!

YouTube: "A non-Newtonian fluid that changes from a liquid state to a solid state when stress is applied (ie shaking of the metal sheet with sound waves)"

The song is "Club Sickness" by Slantize

Oobleck on Wikipedia

Video: Oobleck Experiment - Jon Tickle walks on custard just like the title said!!

"This creature was found by Russian soldiers on Sakhalin shoreline. Sakhalin area is situated near to Japan, it’s the most eastern part of Russia, almost 5000 miles to East from Moscow (Russia is huge). People don’t know who is it. According to the bones and teeth - it is not a fish. According to its skeleton - it’s not a crocodile or alligator. It has a skin with hair or fur."

Englishrussia.com has more pictures.

"You could order something on the internet and pick it up in your cellar the next morning"

"The German Ruhr University of Bochum is conducting experiments with a large-scale model for an automated subterranean transport system. It would use unmanned electric vehicles on rails that travel in a network through pipelines with a diameter of 1.6 meters, up to distances of 150 kilometers."

Via Slashdot

SPON: "Erstmals bekommen Deutsche die Chance, ihr eigenes Erbgut auf Krankheiten oder Vorprägungen untersuchen zu lassen - per Post und Internet, für 999 Dollar. Was steckt hinter dem Angebot der US-Biotechfirma 23andMe, die unter anderem mit Google verwoben ist?"

• Steckt wahscheinlich nix Gutes hinter....!

Excerpt from the 1939 movie "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" belonging to the Collection "1939-40 New York World's Fair". Elektro, the "Westinghouse Motor Man" filmed inside the Westinghouse Pavillion at the Fair.

From UnknownWW2InColor, a great little YouTube-Channel .

This is a really strange one... Is this real or is it just another SETI Institute? Isn't this what The Riddler, played by Jim Carrey, tried in "Batman Forever"? Controlling people via TV? Isn't that what "Lost" is all about as well?

Have a look:

Pravda: Russians have psychotronic weapon to zombie people

Russian Scientist Igor Smirnov Describes Russian Psychotronic Technology (Transcript of German TV Documentary (ZDF, 1998)

Wired: The Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind a DHS Contract

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Plastic.com: "By the time it became clear that steroids could cause a range of health problems, a lot of damage had already been done.

But what if there were drugs that could make someone more intelligent for a while, that could make him get the right answers more often on tests, that could make him remember where he left those vital papers he needs for his project? "

Parasite hijacks brains with surgical precision - life - 02 April 2007 - New Scientist

"Es gibt auch Männer mit XYY – sind das überhaupt Männer für Sie?"

The Top 10 Weirdest Things in Space

CNN: Scientists teleport two different objects Ich verstehe zwar überhaupt nix von sowas, aber das klingt schwer nach einem wissenschaftlichen Durchbruch. Könnte ich doch nur sofort das Altglas wegbeamen...

"24 college student volunteers, paid $15 a day, are divided by a flip of the coin into prisoners and guards. In just a few days, the 'prisoners' stop thinking of themselves as people but instead as numbers, and the 'guards' stop treating the prisoners as humans." Stanford-produced 50 minute film on the aborted prisoner/guard experiment carried out there in the 70s.

Keine Ahnung, wie es Ihnen geht, aber ich hätte verdammt gern so einen praktischen Carebot vom Frauenhofer-Institut. Dürfte der einzige MP3-Spieler sein, der gleichzeitig Musik spielen und Bier holen kann.

ABC: "Woman in coma plays tennis - When the researchers asked the woman to imagine she was playing tennis, her brain scan lit up in virtually the same places as the brains of healthy volunteers asked to do the same thing."

CNN: "China and Russia plan to launch a joint mission to Mars in 2009 to scoop up rocks from the red planet and one of its moons, a Chinese scientist said on Wednesday"

Yahoo: "Cows have regional accents, a group of British farmers claims, and phonetics experts say the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds."

Wie kann man sowas "verlieren"? Da werden die Freunde der Verschwörungstheorien ja wieder 'ne große Klappe haben!

How Video Games, Multitasking And Blogging Are Shaping The GenTech Brain.

Guardian: "Drinking as little as one cup of coffee a day could help protect you from liver disease caused by alcohol, according to research published today. People who drink one cup of coffee are 20% less likely to have alcoholic cirrhosis than those who abstain from doing so.

And the protective effect increases with the more coffee you drink: People who drink two or three cups a day are 40% less likely to contract cirrhosis, while those who drink four or more cups are 80% less likely to suffer the disease."

"Werner von Braun worked with Walt Disney to produce this section about how we might get to Mars. (...) Rare Walt Disney Space series from 1957, speculating about Mars. Remember, almost 50 years ago, only Sputnik had gone up 2 months earlier!"

Also: "FIREBALL XL 5 - The 1962 Gerry Anderson predecessor to the Thunderbirds TV series! Filmed in 'Supermarionation' (Puppets!)"

All that and more rocket fun on YouTube

Via Cartoonist

Heute wieder geiles Zeugs!

New pictures sent by the Mars Rover.

"The ideal soldier of the future knows no fear or fatigue, coolly picks the optimal way out of mortal danger and can even survive explosions with nothing but scratches: meet the military robot.

The German army took a close look this week at potential robot recruits, inviting inventors to an infantry training ground at Hammelburg, 85 km east of Frankfurt, to demonstrate what land robots can do."

Full story in the Hindustan Times

"In recent years, members of the clergy have begun competing with MTV, video games and the Internet by jazzing up sermons with image magnification systems and large-screen video displays, a la Apple Computer's Steve Jobs at a product launch. The trend has evolved, and churches now are Webcasting to distant parishioners with sophisticated multicamera operations and pumping up the volume inside worship areas with state-of-the-art sound systems." Cnet

Cnet: The next generation of weapons in the U.S. arsenal could be straight out of science fiction: laser beams and heat rays. And they could be ready for action before you know it.

"The robot kicking butt is called OmniZero.2. The video comes from www.robot-fan.net. Find other cool robots at www.robots-dreams.com"

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is investing close to a million dollars in an obscure Russian scientist's antigravity machine, although it has failed every test and would violate the most fundamental laws of nature. The Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 6,362,718 for a physically impossible motionless electromagnetic generator, which is supposed to snatch free energy from a vacuum. And major power companies have sunk tens of millions of dollars into a scheme to produce energy by putting hydrogen atoms into a state below their ground state, a feat equivalent to mounting an expedition to explore the region south of the South Pole.

There is, alas, no scientific claim so preposterous that a scientist cannot be found to vouch for it. And many such claims end up in a court of law after they have cost some gullible person or corporation a lot of money. How are juries to evaluate them?"

Chronicle.com: The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science