Justine sent me this link to the blog Street Anatomy: Medical Visualization past, Present, and Future.
Amazing.
It's a slow-loading page. The blog authors would be wise to have only a couple of these big images and movies on the front page and put things down in the "read more" section after they've been up a few days. Fascinating images, though. Worth the wait.
The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
Some gems:
Photographing air
Foreign Accent Syndrome
The Blind Photographer
Jim Bumgardner's Time Graphs
Animals in the Womb
Alternate Alphabets
The Automatic Mapper
Gallery of Scale Model cities
The Frog Museum
A Guide to Hyperbolic Space
Publis Aeolian Harps
Wonderfold Squares
Plaster Casts of Harvester Ants
Bigfoot Casts
Frozen Dandelions
Whew. I'm giddy.
Mefi member jmhodges posted his science blog aggregators in the projects pages. Recombinents, the biology blog aggregator, is my favorite.
It's amazing what you can do with a laser beam and a watermelon.
You want an aquarium, but you don't want to feed the fish? Robot fish, of course.
Name statistics are always fascinating. "Tristan" was the 45th most popular boy name in France the year Vigo was born. There are bo-koo of French name sites offering statistics. This one is easy to use. I didn't find anything quite so good for America.
How popular is your first name in Norway?
I'm slowly reading a very interesting book called The Measuring of America by Andro Linklater. In this early chapter, the author is talking about the inexactitude of measurement in the olden days. My favorite inexact measure so far is the French hupee, which is the distance a voice carries.
Here's something to listen to or read for those of us who love machines.
Farming in space. See them grow. Could fish be raised in mist in zero gravity?
Meade Instruments, which specializes in telescopes, in financing free planetarium software, available through the PBS show Jack Stargazer. The software will show you what's in the sky now or at any date in the past or future. You can have the constellations drawn in, no constellations, or draw in and name the constellations to learn them yourself. You can also have the computer show you the stars rising and setting in real time or accelerated.
Write to
Meade "Star Gazer" Softwarr
Meade Instruments
6001 Oak Canyon
Irvine CA 92618
Include $1 for shipping and handling. If you're in France I suggest sending a preaddressed envelope with an international return stamp which you can get at La Poste.
A theremin-based robot at the Robot Talent Show reminded me how neet theremins are. You can get an email address at thereminworld. How about a downloadable desktop theremin? Or theremin's cousin the rhythmicon? Videotheremin, anyone?
While looking for robot websites for Vigo, I came across this Cool Robot of the Week site from someone at NASA. I realize it was just on Slashdot, but not everyone is a regular there. Check out the nine-minute-long computer animation of the Rover mission to Mars.