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Cory's Sense About Sciencelecture

I gave the annual Sense About Science lecture last week in London, and The Guardian recorded and podcasted it (MP3). It's based on the Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine talk I gave at Re:publica in Berlin the week before.

Movie studios send fraudulent censorship demands over Pirate Baydocumentary

You'll remember last month's news that Fox had sent fraudulent takedown notices regarding my novel Homeland. This is hardly an isolated incident: the studios routinely exhibit depraved indifference to the inaccuracies in their automated censorship threats to search engines and webhosts.

Poop transplants meet FDAbureaucracy

The good news: Fecal transplants work well enough as a treatment for patients with Clostridium difficile infections that the Food and Drug Administration has decided to take them out of the grey area of legality in which they were previously being performed. Poop transplants for C.

History of the cuckooclock

Over at Smithsonian, Jimmy Stamp shares a brief history of the cuckoo clock, likely invented in 17th century Germany.

What a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption would actually mean forhumanity

It's kind of a "That's no moon" moment in real life — a series of discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s led geologists to realize that most of Yellowstone National Park was one giant volcanic caldera.

Centipede is beautiful,crazy

Entomologist Piotr Naskrecki found this fantastic centipede hiding under the smushy bark of a fallen log in Mozambique. You can see more photographs of it, and read more about its discovery at his blog, The Smaller Majority.

Amanda Visell's Ren & Stimpy carved woodfigurines

Amanda Visell hand-carved an excellent collection of Ren & Stimpy sculptures. To give you a sense of the scale, Ren is 2" x 8" x 3". The set of five is $2,200 from iam8bit.

How far did PBS go to avoid offending conservative funderKoch?

Conservative industrialist and Tea Party godfather Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, a documentary critical of Koch and other "one-percenters." So critical, it was referred to as "Citizen Koch.

Nicky Da B "Go Loko": music video, dir. Clayton Cubitt (NSFW, SeizureWarning)

Clayton Cubitt directed this new music video for New Orleans Bounce artist Nicky Da B. He writes, It's with great pride that I debut "Go Loko," the insanely fun new music video I directed for Nicky Da B.

How to get cinematic video from a point-and-shootcamera

The first step, unfortunately, is that you have to have Sony's remarkable but rather expensive RX100, whose larger sensor makes much of the difference.

Fortunately, the rest is all menu settings to get a flat image profile and 25fps.