Category: Science

  • Zombie Genes Thursday Open Comments

    When do we actually die? Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit have stumbled on a very strange case – when life support was turned off for four terminal patients, one of them showed persistent brain activity even after they were declared clinically dead. For more than 10 minutes after doctors confirmed death through a…

  • Friday Open Comments

    I just finished reading the first book of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series – Foundation. In it, a man who specializes in the field of psycohistory – the prediction of human behavior en masse over long periods of time, not the study of any of a select group of Comfy Couch denizens – sets up conditions…

  • Wednesday Wave Open Comments

    A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element. Waves from Daniel Palacios on Vimeo.