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The mythical AC car
Do you feel that an AC engine is possible or feasible?
:: STARTED BY Nocturne
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:08 11.03.06
Windows Vista... won't suck?
Extremetech has pictures of the key new features in Microsoft's new operating system, and they look good.
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:09 09.03.06
DHEA?
What is it and is it safe?
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:49 09.03.06
Western Energy Policy...
A thread on changing energy policy in the UK and the US...
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 37 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:39 27.02.06
Cafe Scientifique
Explore and debate the latest issues in science in a cafe over a glass of wine and some cake.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:32 24.02.06
Smart Drugs
A thread to discuss smart drugs.
:: STARTED BY Axolotl
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:04 23.02.06
If time were metric, what would it look like
seeking imaginative speculation on a more eloquent measure of hours, days and years
:: STARTED BY nyarlathotep's shoe horn
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:38 20.02.06
Scientists use Marine Mamals as Roving Sensors
Researchers are enlisting seals, sea lions, tunas, and sharks to serve as ocean sensors after attaching next generation sensor tags to them.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:25 19.02.06
Science History
Your favourite bit of science history, favourite old scientists, the Royal Society etc. and the evolution of scientific theories in general.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:08 17.02.06
Brain switching
fast switches, slow switches and all psychopathologies in between... a mechanism that relate's to richard feynman's idea that we have a master clock regulating everything in our body...
take half a minute and find out, how does barbelith stack up - are we dancers or math nerds??
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:27 16.02.06
Real Transformer
A veritable thing that can change form.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:44 15.02.06
Many new species discovered in Papua
New birds and Tree Kangaroo among others.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:01 07.02.06
The Placebo Effect
People believe themselves well given inert medication. How does that work, then? Mr search function, I say to you Placebo effect nocebo meaning response psychosomatic healing cancer cures medicine and finally magic.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:44 06.02.06
What is the Shape of Time?
Alexander Franklin Mayer of Stanford on 'The Many Directions of Time', it goes over my head, what about yours?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:05 06.02.06
Water
H20. Two Hydrogens, One Oxygen. Every living thing doesn't live very long wihtout it. Our bodies are 75-80% made of it. Our planet is 66-75% covered in it. Lets talk about it, the science and politics.
:: STARTED BY Scrambled Password Bogus Email
:: 70 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:45 05.02.06
Instinct
Who said that instinct explains nothing?
:: STARTED BY CyberChimp
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:42 05.02.06
Robots as manifestations of a nation's racism
Articles on the very different application of robotics by the Japanese and US, and what is implied about their respective cultures.
:: STARTED BY waxy dan
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:07 31.01.06
The Revenge of the Brains!
A study has shown differences in brain activity between men and women when they experience schaudenfraude.
:: STARTED BY Evil Scientist
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:46 27.01.06
Nemesis: The Black Sun
It turns out that there may well be a second, dark sun in our solar system.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:17 27.01.06
Usenet. Repalced by Barbelith(and it's varied brother and sister message boards)?
A discussion about Usenet, and what the heck it actually is. Throwback to an older time, or the underlying future of the Intarwub?
:: STARTED BY Digital Hermes
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:54 23.01.06
Galileo, Glonass, GPS and the politics of global positioning
A thread about global positioning technology and the politics thereof...
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:05 16.01.06
Nature and nurture and separating the two
The difficulty of attributing affects in studies.
:: STARTED BY lord henry strikes back
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:20 13.01.06
Stalin was building secret ape/man army, builders say
Bones discovered in Georgia
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:41 29.12.05
Machinima: video games meet DIY filmmaking.
Kids are using videogames to make movies -- and they're getting global audiences and industry attention.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:56 22.12.05
Mars!
Mars rover lands safely on Mars, much rejoicing.
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:32 20.12.05
Self-assembling medicine-delivery cubes
A possible new way of sending medicine to certain parts of the body.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:22 15.12.05
Artists and schizophrenics are sexual dynamos
A new study shows that people who come up with "unusual interpretations" tend to have more sexual partners.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:33 13.12.05
Baby born with tail hailed as Hanuman
A baby has been born with a 4 inch tail and is being worshipped.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:51 05.12.05
I don't know where I'm going and I can't write down directions!
Is there a link between spelling and sense of direction?
:: STARTED BY lord henry strikes back
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:46 21.11.05
Soy Milk
Great white hype or milk of the Gods?
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:53 17.11.05
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