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Month: January 2007

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Great Googly Moogly!

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Holy bloody huge! Check out this “colossal” squid. Calamari jokes aside, the article mentions they think this thing is only two-thirds is full size. Yowza. Suddenly some those sea monster stories start to make sense. BBC [via Neatorama]

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Pimp My (Ice Cream) Bowl

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Terrible pop-culture reference, check. Informational follow-up post, you bet. Back in May, I wrote about Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, the best ice cream I’ve ever had. I incorrectly said in that post that they did not have a website. Linda Parker, owner of MDIIC posted a comment pointing out that, in fact, there is […]

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WP: New Orleans repeats mistakes – washingtonpost.com Highlights – MSNBC.com

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The WaPo weighs in. “It’s terrifying: We’re doing the same things we have in the past but expecting different results,” said Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a former New Orleans resident who served as a member of the National Science Foundation panel that studied […]

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Why we're so good at recognizing music – Culture – International Herald Tribune

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“You hear only one note, and you already know who it is,” he said. “So what I want to know is: how we do this? Why are we so good at recognizing music?” Short on science but long on interest, this article explores the work of Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist at McGill University. Link […]

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