Awesomest research manuscript title ever?

November 16th, 2009

At least in terms of its sheer randomness:
‘Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time’

Click here for the article. Figure 3 might be NSFW, assuming you are employed at a place that frowns on either sketches of bats caught in flagrante delicto or bar graphs.

SOURCE: PLoS ONE

(Thanks Brad!)

There are two twilights!

November 9th, 2009

Perhaps this betrays the ignorance of the staff at FILTER Labs, but we really didn’t know that there were two twilights. No, not this one and that one. We mean each day:

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SOURCE: The fount of information that is Wikipedia.

“How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to colorblind people”

November 2nd, 2009

How colorblind people perceive colors:
HowColourblingPeopleSeeColour

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SOURCE: J*FLY data depository for Drosophila researchers.

(Thanks Brad!)

Fortune cookie DNA helix

May 25th, 2009

’nuff said.

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SOURCE: National Human Genome Research Institute

42 grams of celebrity DNA!

May 21st, 2009

noltenick

Okay, I don’t know if Nick Nolte is available. Any excuse to post that picture though.

From ThinkGeek:

Wanna Be More Popular? Smarter? Better Looking? We really can’t help you there (other than to suggest you floss regularly and stray from harmful inhalants.) But what we can do is let you purchase the DNA of your favorite celebrity (geek or otherwise) and hope that at some point in the future you can put that DNA to good use!

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SOURCE: ThinkGeek. (NN mugshot via The Smoking Gun.)

Why is Science Important?

May 18th, 2009


Why is Science Important? from Alom Shaha on Vimeo.

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SOURCE: Alom Shaha

Do you love bacteria and credit cards?

May 14th, 2009

Well then…

coli

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SOURCE: Germusu (single celled pouches).

(via fashionablygeek)

Not quite a thumb drive…

May 11th, 2009

finger

link (to the picture), link (to the news story)

SOURCE: This practical digit replacement brought to you by a Finnish computer programmer called Jerry Jalava.

Not really a lot of scientific merit in this vid…

May 7th, 2009

…but it’s pretty freakin’ cool nonetheless!

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SOURCE: SSI Shredding Systems.

Iron Chef SNP Guru

May 4th, 2009

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SOURCE: Applied Biosystems.