Let’s say you’re thrust headlong into a dogfight engagement in space. Era and galaxy of your choosing. What would the real-world physics look like?

Sara Robinson refutes various points about the Candian healthcare system. A short but more balanced view of how the healthcare system in Canada differs from America and how that’s a GOOD thing.

A revenant in the Middle Ages was an animate corpse which rose from the grave to haunt the living

Slate link explains the real cost of movies..

Site containing info about watercolor painting; material, techniques, color theory etc, etc.

A passenger on New York’s subway system has been attacked and injured by a man wielding two hand-held power saws.

Not ONE power saw but TWO. What the hell is wrong with people these days? Mugging is bad enough but the power saws, that’s something….

A group of seventh graders describe and draw scientists before and after visting with actual scientists. The before and after is striking.

These are photos taken a few microseconds after an atomic bomb blast, originally from here. These pictures scare the hell outta me, though they’re beautiful. Can’t help but think that we’ve been playing with fire messing with this stuff and eventually we’ll get burned. What’s happening to reality in the midst of that fireball?














Here’s similar pic, with a link detailing what the “rope tricks” are.

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There is book collecting photos of nuclear blasts, 100 Suns 1945-1962. Worth checking out.

Web suicide pacts surge in Japan
The number of Japanese who killed themselves in suicide pacts made over the internet rose sharply last year.


Transforming Robot, via the Japanese.

Yes, the second most powerful man in the world accidently shot someone. Now there’s questions about how long it took for the story to become public.

The Washington Post has put together a site on every congressional vote back to 1991. Hot damn, this could be useful.