EXTREME SCIENCE LIVE
1: Being shot by a firework
AIM: To discover what happens when someone is shot by a cherry bomb style firework at a distance of five metres.
APPARATUS: A “Five Stars” Firework, some slighly softer ground than expected[…]

TRUTH STILL VALIANTLY STRUGGLIN TO GET BOOTS ON:
“Despite long lines and registration snafus, voters under age 30 clocked the highest turnout percentage since 1972. The good news is that America’s young people are more engaged in politic[…]

THAT OVERWHELMING MANDATE IN VISUAL FORM
(via pandagon)[…]

What Just Happened
As with any election, the noble art of market research has taken a knocking. The nationwide US polls were wrong and the exit polls were even more wrong (sadly not wrong in the ways most – all? – of this site’s rea[…]

More on “Flores Man”
Nature has now set up a special section on the Flores hominid discovery (or Homo floresiensis — impress your friends!) that Mark UNLEASHED on Proven By Science a few days ago. You know it’s a big discove[…]

Titan – a profound mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a significant nitrogen atmosphere
NASA Cassini-Huygens home page, Press Releases
On Christmas Day, a small probe (Huygens) will separate from the Cassini spacecraft and head towards Sat[…]

Javascript on Freakytrigger’s Front Page
I just want to flag up that i’m concerned that the front page isn’t very “low tech”. It’s mostly javascript to dynamically update the lists of blog items and (recently) essa[…]

Rational yet Irrational. Part 1 – Eric S Raymond
I don’t think we’ve ever blogged a link to madman Eric S Raymond’s Armed and Dangerous blog – so drink up, it’s bonkers stuff. Eric was the author of the famous The […]

“teaching our grandmothers to suck… EGGSES”
“I headed off to a village in central Flores where we heard the most amazing tales of little hairy people whom they called ebu gogo: ebu meaning ‘grandmother’ and gogo &[…]

ACTUAL REAL LIVE HOBBITS DISCOVERED IN INDONESIA!!!:
ok they are not live, they lived there “at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world”, as the BBC rather weirdly puts it (ahem if the world is our colony where are we s[…]