Blue balls’ new meaning…. could they be neuroprotective?
FD&C blue dye #1… what is found in Gatorade and other unnatural blue foods we eat. Turns out this dye is very similar to a compound that can block nerve inflammation…. and… it can expedite recovery from spinal cord injuries in the rat…. with only detectable side effect being that the rats turn blue.Bluerats. Serendipity strikes again!
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Thanks to Mr. Call, who pointed out that the folks that brought us A Glorious Dawn, featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawkings singing, have a few other songs available in video and audio formats at Symphony of Science. I have to admit, I really like this stuff…
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This is a pretty cool experiment that is being carried out as I type. It started this afternoon at UCSD. The project is part of this lab’s repertoire.
If only one suggestion would be that they need audio commentary… “And here comes the first slice of the temporal lobe… touchdown!” … enjoy!
Thanks H.M!!!
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This is real stuff… published on PlosOne… what really tricked me out was the “time spent licking penis” on the axis of one of the chart figures… A first for me.. at least on that! ;p
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Have you ever wondered how small a human egg is, or mitochondria, or a cold virus? This brilliant site has a slider that let’s you go from a coffee bean down to the size of a carbon atom. Pretty freaking brilliant. Thanks Wang!
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Mookee sent a pretty cool, animated link showing the assembly of the International Space Station. While I wish it went a little slower and had more detail, it’s pretty cool to see the thing coming together.
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Serge Brunier has taken an amazing picture of the night sky. Each of the 1200 pictures, capturing 300 fields, were made with a Nikon D3 camera with a 50mm lens at f5.6 for six minute exposures. You can view the picture here, and can zoom and pan (Mac users should use the shift and z keys to zoom) and view just how many stars and galaxies there are up there. It’s humbling.
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In this tribute to Carl Sagan called A Glorious Dawn, his voice was synthed into singing. I thought this was going to be pure cheese, but it’s so freaking good I went and downloaded the song.
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