Travel-time Maps of the UK

Cool maps showing the relative travel times for getting from one part of the UK to another. Just need one for Melbourne now...

THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT by Terry Bisson

Mmmm, nutella!

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An awesome voice-controlled blender!

Computing power!

It takes a pound of coal to create, package, store, and move every 10-20 megabytes of data...

Where's that taxi?

A cool project for San Francisco's Exploratorium graphically mapping the movements of taxis.

Wind Turbines and Birds

A comparison of bird deaths by collision with wind turbines and other man made structures. Summary: We already kill so many birds that any additional deaths as a result of wind turbines are pretty much irrelevant.

NEJM: Should doctors assist with executions?

Another argument, as if one was needed, as to why the death penalty can't be made to work. Chilling stuff.

Idlewords.com: The Collapse of the Perito Moreno

"A glacier forms when more snow falls on it than can melt in a given year. This implies the existence of a point (let us call it point A) where so much snow is falling that it can make up for the spectacular daily losses at the glacier's face (point B). There is also a third point, point C, where it is warm and dry and you can sit at an outdoor table drinking beer in the sun. However, the physics of glacier formation ensure that points A and B are very close together, and point C, if it exists at all, is very far away, most likely in El Calafate, eighty kilometers to the east."

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly®