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Usually when we think of “art”, things like sculptures or paintings come to mind; in other words, stuff you can hang on the wall or keep in your atrium to be the envy of your neighborhood’s upper crust (everyone is lower-upper class, right? That’s what TV tells me). But there is a new form that [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, Entertainment, Misc, Science · Tagged 3-D, Carbon nanotube, David Dietle, Elisabetta Comini, Energy, Fanny Beron, Johns Hopkins University, Nanoelectronics, Nanowire, National Taiwan University, Pac-Man, Solar cell, Tata Nano, technology, University of Brescia in Italy
The most creative I have ever gotten with gummies is when I pretend that the worms are actually snakes, or I bite off pieces of the bears and pretend they’re screaming in agony. I tend to eat them more than I create with them, is what I’m saying. But, as it turns out, there are [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Food · Tagged Confectionery, David Dietle, FDA, food and drink, Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company, Gummi bear, Gummi brains, Gummi fetus, Gummi worms, Gummies, halloween, Jell-O, Knox-Blox Legos, Legos, Mount Olympus, Nicolas Cage, pseudo, Zombieland
The modern ocean is a scary place, filled with barracuda, sharks, super-squids, and possibly Cthulhu. However, no matter what we find in the depths these days, none of them seem to come close to the giant terrors that roamed the seas in Earth’s past; giant sea-lizards, monster sharks and even “hypercarnivorous” whales. For most of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Science · Tagged Australia, Basilosaurus, Biology, Cetaceans, David Dietle, Discovery Channel, echo-locating equipment, fish, food, herman melville, King, Lamnidae, large prehistoric sea creatures, large sea creatures, Liopleurodon, Mauisaurus, Megafauna, Megalodon, mekong river, New Zealand, pointy-toothed head, power tools, Predators, Prehistoric fish, prehistoric sea creatures, River Monsters, scary prehistoric sea creatures, sea creatures, Zoology
Extreme has (luckily) lost most of its buzz-word status. It’s mostly back to meaning things on the fringe, way out near the edges, where they blow our minds with their extremeness, rather than simply having 3 times the corn syrup and colors nature never intended. That being said, for every type of substance, there is [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Science · Tagged Alexander Litvinenko, Botox, Botulinum toxin, cancer, Carbon nanotube, Chemical elements, Chemistry, David Dietle, Electronics, Energy, Germany, Helium, Ionizing radiation, Japan, Matter, Neurotoxins, Nuclear physics, optical tools, Physics, potential applications, radiation, soviet spy, spy, Substance theory, thermal conductor, Toxicity