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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Outstanding Dylan Covers

Steven Stills, The Ballad of Hollis Brown Jimi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower Nanci Griffith, Boots of Spanish Leather Byrds, Chimes of Freedom Lucinda Williams, Positively Fourth Street Joan Baez, Daddy You've Been on My Mind Judy Collins, Mr. Tambourine...

Sizeable Complaints of Average Men [organ]

Some men like to complain. Some people think about how to respond to those complaints. Thus this study: “Position Paper: Management of Men Complaining of a Small Penis Despite an Actually Normal Size,” Hussein Ghanem [pictured here, below], Sidney Glina, Pierre Assalian, Jacques Buvat, Journal of Sexual Medicine, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2013, pp. [...]

The Political Economy of IQ, Or Tilting At Windmills with Steve Hsu (and Jason Richwine)

President Obama's New E.O.: Open Data, Not Government Transparency

Jim Harper There’s a powerful irony lurking underneath the executive order and OMB memorandum on open data that the White House released in tandem today: We don’t have data that tells us what agencies will carry out these policies. It’s nice that the federal government will work more assiduously to make available the data it collects and creates. Show More Summary

"Project 1640" --New Space Technology Analyzes the Molecular Chemistry of Alien Planets

Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars beyond our sun -- and more than 2,700 other candidates. What are these exotic planets made of? Unfortunately, you cannot stack them in a jar like marble...

Researchers Love Bears

The Movies Are Dying: A Video Poem

The Movies Are Dying: A Video Poem. (Futzing around, I made a thing.)

Batman, (a) psychoanalyzed and (b) fallen

Witold Gombrowicz's Kronos

Among the books I've slowly been making my way through but which I haven't reviewed yet is Witold Gombrowicz's Diary, recently re-published in a one-volume edition by Yale University Press; see their publicity page, or get your copyShow More Summary

Can't get to Australia? Get an online look at the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse

If you can't make it to the South Pacific's eclipse zone in time to watch the sun turn into a "ring of fire" on Thursday, you can still get in on the spectacle online. The annular solar eclipse begins at 6:33 p.m. ET (22:33 GMT) with the touchdown of the moon's shadow in western …

15-year-old Astronaut Abby fuels her outreach mission with social media

"Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew — and if Facebook and Twitter count for anything, it just might get her to …

Tesla Wardenclyffe laboratory bought for museum

Last year’s hugely successful Indiegogo campaign to raise $850,000 for the nonprofit Tesla Science Center to build a museum dedicated to the genius inventor Nikola Tesla at his Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham, New York, has borne fruit. The 15.69-acre laboratory site and all its buildings are no longer the property of Belgian multinational Agfa. As [...]

The performing black folks next door

INTERNET memes rarely hit and then provoke counter-reaction to this fast. First, watch this video, whether or not you know the context. Now, the context. Three women had been missing in Cleveland for a decade. The man here, Charles Ramsey, rescued them after hearing a cry for help from a front door in his neighborhood. Show More Summary

Engage! Astronomers need your assistance to detect space warps

Think you can find space warps? Astronomers have recruited thousands of citizen scientists to look for exoplanets, galaxies, moon craters and other cosmic curiosities — and now they need your help to go after one of the weirdest phenomena in space-time: gravitational lenses …

Ig Nobel at The University of Geneva (and webcast) tonight!

#TEDlessons – Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

Talk Summary: In his famous speech to Stanford University graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs talks about three different stories from his life: Connecting the dots, Love and loss, and Death. English Trackers highlights some of the notable vocabulary Jobs uses in his speech. Show More Summary

Psychological Projection and its Dangers

I have found that it is dangerous to assume that others are essentially like oneself. Psychologists speak of projection. As I understand it, it involves projecting into others one's own attitudes, beliefs, motivations, fears, emotions, desires, values, and the like....

Life Could Have Evolved in Frigid Underwater Ice Gardens

New evidence indicates that chemical gardens which form beneath the Antarctic ice could be the origin of coldwater life. Brinicles, first captured forming on film by the BBC in 2011, are hollow tubes of ice that descend from Antarctic sea ice. They look a lot like icicles, but aren’t. As sea water freezes into ice, [...]

AMAP: Arctic ocean acidification (video; complete version)

AMAP (via Vimeo), 5 May 2013. Videos.

Return of The Physics Bus

My parents have a DVD of the Bacon Brothers singing “The Wheels on the Bus” over an animated scene, which The Pip loves and insists on watching over, and over, and over, and over… As the parent sitting through this on Sunday morning, I got a little punchy over on Twitter, and invented some quantum-physics-themed…