How to Evolve a Watch

Meet the Steves

Since the early Twentieth Century, evolution deniers have been fond of creating lists of "scientists" who do not accept evolution. This tactic is an attempt to give the erroneous impression that, among scientists in general, support for evolution is in decline or that evolution is a "theory in crisis."

Project Steve is a parody of these lists conducted by the National Center for Science Education.

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Ig Nobel Awards 2007

The annual awards for quirky and off-beat science research with handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research at Harvard University.

Some of the winners included:

• Spanish scientists who found that rats sometimes could not distinguish between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards.


• An Australian woman who documented the indexing problems caused by the word "the."


• A Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung.


• A Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers.

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The 11 mile wide web page

It's incredible just how much empty space exists in an atom.

The Hydrogen atom

"as you can see here, (atoms) contain so little actual material that they can barely be said to exist.
We are all phantoms. "

absolutely mind boggling.

Interview with Dr Michio Kaku

Fascinating interview with Dr Michio Kaku on parallel universes, the matrix and superintelligence. I particularly liked his explanation of the multiverse idea:

Now, this can be compared to sitting in a room, listening to radio. When you listen to radio, you hear many frequencies. They exist simultaneously all around you in the room. However, your radio is only tuned to one frequency. In the same way, in your living room, there is the wave function of dinosaurs. There is the wave function of aliens from outer space. There is the wave function of the Roman Empire, because it never fell, 1500 years ago.

All of this coexists inside your living room. However, just like you can only tune into one radio channel, you can only tune into one reality channel, and that is the channel that you exist in.