NPR reports MIT Researchers Transmit Wireless Electricity, no more looking for your cell phone charger, or that 23rd Chromozone.

Wi-tricity

Dear god I just can't see how he pulled this off but some 17-year old has built a fusion reaction device in his freaking basement.

I know exactly how far that would have gotten with my mom, encouraging soul or not. "There is no way you're blowing up the house."

He built a WHAT?!?! His parents are mad!

For those of you who are wondering why Congress has such a problem with understanding the concept of Net Neutrality, well...

Here's Ted Stevens "explaining" things to Congress.

With a beat and visualizations.

I kinda want this thing as an mp3.

Ted's Tubes (extended play edition, apparently)

Soon... Glow in the dark bacon!

If they can do this for pigs, SURELY they will be able to do this for human hair soon.

(In retrospect, I probably should have mentioned that this article is about transgenic pigs--pigs which have been genetically modified with jellyfish genes so that they actually glow.)

ONE STEP CLOSER TO MUTANTDOM!

OKay, my head is still spinning a little from this and I think I'm really going to have to go back and read Flatland (http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/flatland/) again to really be able to wrap my mind around (heh) it, but I suspect that while it may have been wild speculation that allowed them to reach these conclusions, that they may be exactly right.

It really explains a great deal about subatomic particle behaviours.

Dark matter highlights extra dimensions

TOPEKA, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

i heart the onion.

'Intelligent Falling' challenges Theory of Gravity