Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School. (via Metafilter) Unlike adult networks where there are hubs of sexually active people, a high school network is more like a chain. This is probably due to the fact that most teenagers are not as promiscuous and they don't swap partners like trading cards. And there is, of course, those unspoken high school social rules about cliques, dating, etc.
Monkeys Pay Per View. In a recent article in Current Biology, male rhesus macaques were willing to give up juice to view pictures of the behinds of female monkeys or pictures of high ranking monkeys. However, they demanded more juice if the researchers wanted them to look at pictures of low ranking monkeys. I'm sure some guy is going to use this as an excuse when somebody finds his extensive stash of pr0n.
Homemade Nuclear Fusion Reactor. I can see someone using this concept for a movie like Real Genius, but exactly how safe is this?
Revenge of the Right Brain. Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion. Blech. If it's going to be only artistry, empathy, and emotion without any sort of logic--it's going to be a scary thing. Any sensible person will realize that you can't have one without the other.
Blog Overkill. A Slate article arguing that blogging is being overhyped and that it'll fizzle out before most people realize its potential.
Color Fields. An interesting color picking utility that also uses images.
Blogging 'a paedophile's dream'. Well, the bad news is, if some pervert is really determined to find you, he'll get the info no matter what you try to do. I guess the advice is not to make it too easy to tempt anyone who might be borderline.
Comparative Morphologies. At first glance these pages look like drawings of biological miscellany like a page out of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, but those objects are just computer parts.
How this one works: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
From Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome by Henry Gee:
"To backtrack slightly to before the birth of genetics, cytologists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century suggested that the consistent behaviour of chromosomes during processes such as recombination had parallels with the laws of inheritance."
