Triptych Cryptic  

Monday, January 18, 2010

Every so often, you would see one waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie on a seat or sit on the floor if the carriage was crowded, and then exit a few stops later. There is even a website dedicated to the metro stray (www.metrodog.ru) on which passengers post photos and video clips taken with their mobile phones, documenting the ­savviest of the pack using the public transport system like any other Muscovite.
via ft.com

Posted via web from "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding."

Labels: ,

19:45 cdogzilla

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Can't go wrong with stories that combine monkeys and robots.

Posted via web from "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding."

Labels: , ,

16:03 cdogzilla

Monday, December 28, 2009

Facial Recognition, If This Is Any Indicator, Is Not Reliable Technology
I mean, c'mon.  This celebrity matcher thing didn't notice my resemblance to Tom Baker or Mark Knopfler?

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Labels: , ,

17:30 cdogzilla

Friday, October 30, 2009

Labels: ,

23:27 cdogzilla

Friday, October 23, 2009

Megafauna Pon Farr: Whales are awesome.

Labels: ,

16:14 cdogzilla

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

MESSENGER Web Site: Awesome pix of Mercury.

Labels: ,

21:15 cdogzilla

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

weeklyrob ? Cheap Pics: "These guys spent just under $150, total, to send a camera into SPACE and take pictures. Or, almost space. Close enough for me.

Go have a look, and read how they did it. You could do it, too, ’cause they’re gonna post instructions.

[Link from Wired’s Gadget Lab.]"

Labels: ,

23:55 cdogzilla

Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys: Scientific American Podcast: "In one type of squirrel monkey, the males lack a visual pigment called L-opsin. Its absence renders the monkeys color-blind, unable to distinguish reds and green. Most of the females, on the other hand, see in full color. So the scientists got to wondering: what would happen if they gave a boy squirrel monkey the same opsin that girls have.

Using a harmless virus, the scientists introduced the pigment gene into the eyes of color-blind adults. Lo and behold, about a month later, the monkeys with the new L-opsin gene were able to see hues they’d never seen before."

Labels: ,

23:48 cdogzilla

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Warren Ellis : Your AAA WHAT THE F-BOMB IS THAT Moment For Today: I'm not going to include the picture of the parasite that eats the fish's tongue, then takes its place. If you follow the link it will be looking right at you. It's going to give me nightmares. You may not want to click the link.

Labels: ,

20:47 cdogzilla

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Monkey-friendly tunes shed new light on evolutionary role of music - Times Online: "The idea that human musical appreciation stems from the same evolutionary root as the vocalisations that primates use to bond and alert others to danger is not new, but it has always been hard to test because monkeys do not generally respond to music.

When monkeys have been played music, from classical to hard rock, they generally prefer silence. The sole exception has come from one experiment in which monkeys appeared to be calmed down by listening to the heavy metal band Metallica."
----------------
Now playing on YouTube: The Specials - Monkey Man
via FoxyTunes

Labels: , ,

07:08 cdogzilla

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Basics - Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect - NYTimes.com: I have been telling Mrs. C-Dog for years that the spleen is the most awesome and powerful of our internal organs, and the most misunderstood. Now, this article doesn't touch on the spleen's more amazing properties (its ability to travel around the body, its ability to take on the function of any other organ) or its propensity producing sudden sharp pains wherever in the body it might be but it is still provides valuable lessons for skeptics.

----------------
Now playing: William Shatner - Spleen
via FoxyTunes

Labels:

14:59 cdogzilla

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Ads in Brazil promote peeing in the shower as water conservation method.

Finally, an environmental technique that requires less effort than the non-environmental way of doing things.

Labels: , ,

14:41 bone daddy

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Kim Stanley Robinson -- Exploring Space Can Help Us Protect the Earth - washingtonpost.com: "Another good reason for a vigorous space program is the immense potential of space-based solar power. This would entail infrastructure-building with a vengeance, but investing in a system of orbiting solar power collectors -- and ground stations to receive that power -- could stimulate the economy, much like building interstate freeways did in the 1950s. And gathering the sun's energy in space and beaming it down maximizes the harvest while minimizing the effects on the Earth."

Labels:

23:37 cdogzilla

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Who Owns the Moon? The Galactic Government vs. the UN

Dennis Hope, head of the Lunar Embassy Corporation, has sold real estate on the moon and other planets to about 3.7 million people so far ...

As his customer base grew, he said, buyers wanted assurances that their property rights would be protected.

So Hope started his own government in 2004, which has a ratified constitution, a congress, a unit of currency—even a patent office.

"We're now a fully realized sovereign nation," Hope said.

via Dusty Trice

Labels: ,

21:14 cdogzilla

Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Good News: A New Monkey Is Discovered; The Bad News: It Is Already at Risk: Scientific American: Fire ants, cockroaches, Fox News pundits -- soon to be humanity's only company on the planet.

Labels: ,

21:16 cdogzilla

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Monkeys Recognize Poor Grammar - A new study suggests that monkeys can speak in accents, form sentences and recognize poor grammar. How many bloggers have language skills that advanced? (Link from Mrs. BoneDaddy, who hardly ever gives me a monkey link because she assumes c-dog already has.)

Labels: ,

15:02 bone daddy

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

NOVA | scienceNOW | Auto-Tune | PBS: The inventor of auto-tune shows how it works.

Labels: ,

22:09 cdogzilla

Friday, June 12, 2009

All That's Missing is the Cow

Labels: , ,

14:36 cdogzilla

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Nothing like the chilling tale of loose nukes to scare the poop out of a fella. If we can't keep track of ours, I wonder how many Russian nukes are lost? And how Pakistani nukes soon will be? Any way to squeeze that genie back in the bottle?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Labels:

09:20 cdogzilla

Saturday, May 16, 2009

I Get Cosmological Vertigo Watching These Hubble-Casts:

One image, a tiny slice of the sky, showing thirty thousand galaxies. Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, indeed.

Labels:

17:42 cdogzilla

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise: Great. Zombie spiders. Just what I needed to give me nightmares after Mrs. C-Dog found that Black Widow in the backyard yesterday.

Labels: ,

18:01 cdogzilla

Monday, April 20, 2009

Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier - ReadWriteWeb: "University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a 'brain wave monitor' to the Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service."

I blogged tweeting farts the other day, so I figured I'd better cover the automation of tweeting from the other end.

Query: If Newt Gingrich were hooked up to Fart-o-matic Twitterer and the Brainwave-o-matic Twitterer, would followers be able to tell from which source the posts were coming from?

Labels: ,

20:20 cdogzilla

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung: Ewww. I hope this is a hoax.

Labels:

17:08 cdogzilla

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Somebody Set Up Him the Bomb. BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Man survived both atomic bombings: Upon certifying his experience, Tokyo Health and Human Services officials invited to Mr. Yamaguchi to, "just stay in Nagasaki. No need to come to Tokyo."

Labels:

17:32 cdogzilla

Monday, March 16, 2009

Dino Mites: A Diminutive Dinosaur in North America and a Rare Mass Death of Young Relatives in China: Scientific American - They headlined it for me. Although, I would've gone with the more dramatic "Dino-Mite!!" Double exclamation marks make is sound like J.J. Walker.

Labels: ,

22:07 cdogzilla

Saturday, March 14, 2009

McKinsey: What Matters: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme by Kim Stanley Robinson: "Does the word postcapitalism look odd to you? It should, because you hardly ever see it. We have a blank spot in our vision of the future. Perhaps we think that history has somehow gone away. In fact, history is with us now more than ever, because we are at a crux in the human story. Choosing not to study a successor system to capitalism is an example of another kind of denial, an ostrich failure on the part of the field of economics and of business schools, I think, but it’s really all of us together, a social aporia or fear. We have persistently ignored and devalued the future—as if our actions are not creating that future for our children, as if things never change. But everything evolves. With a catastrophe bearing down on us, we need to evolve at nearly revolutionary speed. So some study of what could improve and replace our society’s current structure and systems is in order. If we don’t take such steps, the consequences will be intolerable. On the other hand, successfully dealing with this situation could lead to a sustainable civilization that would be truly exciting in its human potential."

Labels:

18:40 cdogzilla

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Forty foot snake found! Oh wait, fossil of a forty foot snake found. Still, pretty cool.

Labels: , ,

21:19 bone daddy

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Lost Time
I've never become a part of the giant Lost community online. I don't want to know spoilers and couldn't care less who fan nation thinks is cuter. I've also been avoiding most theories since I hope the show itself will be the best prestige. Yet, I couldn't resist peeking at this theory and this similarly time-centric theory.

Yeah, probably something like that. But what about the four toes? (Links via PopCandy.)

Labels: , ,

08:24 bone daddy

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Cloned, glow in the dark cats. Y'know, in case you're hurting for Christmas gift ideas.

Labels: , ,

23:18 bone daddy

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Chimps beat college students in memory test. Not really fair inasmuchas the chimps probably weren't stoned.

Labels: ,

20:48 bone daddy

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

When we think of "survival of the fittest" we always think of biggest, meanest, strongest, etc., but it occurs to me when I read this article about giant, 8 feet long sea scorpions that the giant creature with the three foot claws is gone, but the horseshoe crab is still around in all its ugly, harmless glory. One scientist is quoted as saying he'd rather be in the water with a shark than a "eurypterid." Since it's not clear if the sea scorpions could swim or just crawl on the bottom like lobsters, I'd say that depends on 1) what kind of shark and 2) how deep the water is. (Link via Mrs. BoneDaddy)

Labels: , ,

15:51 bone daddy

Friday, July 20, 2007

Q: Why Do the Super Wealthy Need Luxury Subs?
A:
The underwater fortress is vulnerable when it surfaces.

Labels: , ,

11:44 cdogzilla

Monday, July 16, 2007

Not Dead Yet
Long beaked echidnas may still be scurrying around in Papuan forests.

Labels: ,

09:55 cdogzilla

Friday, June 22, 2007

Nice Find
A 35,000 year old carving of a wooly mammoth. (No recent word on the success or failure of attempts to clone a wooly mammoth Jurassic Park stylee.)

Labels: ,

07:57 cdogzilla

Friday, June 08, 2007

Weird Science

Labels: ,

22:36 cdogzilla

Saturday, April 21, 2007

KSR's Next
Stan reveals in a Locus interview that he's working on another historical novel ...

I've sold a book about the birth of science called The Galileans. It will have a science fiction element, but a strongly historical narrative as well. I researched the subject when I was writing The Years of Rice and Salt, which includes an alternative scientific revolution. Having done that, I thought, 'Well, what actually happened is fascinating.' So this new book is constellated about the figure of Galileo. Because he was famously put on trial by the Pope, he's still a good way to discuss the relationship between science and religion, and how those two can be reconciled (or not).
He also recommends a historical novelist I've never heard of: Cecelia Holland. If he thinks she's one of our greatest novelists, I'm intrigued.

Labels: , ,

21:07 cdogzilla

Friday, March 30, 2007

Get the kids! Otters holding hands, be sure to watch to the end.

Labels: , ,

22:48 bone daddy

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Eyetracking study reveals that men are checking out the crotches of George Brett, and animals.

Labels: ,

21:11 HD

[Home]

TC FEATURES

The Boneyard

TC Arts Index

PORTABLE TC

RSS Tickler
Mobile Friendly TC

INTERACT


www TC

CONTRIBUTORS

bonedaddy
c-dog (g-reader | ff)
HD
mega
sly
primetime
slip

TC READS

anneheart
cheek
eschaton
ghost in the machine
neilalien
to wit
why oh why?

NEWS & INFOTAINMENT

aicn / alternet
air america radio
arts & letters daily
bos. globe/sports
commondreams
darkhorizons
dilbert
editorial toons
nyrb
open secrets
popmatters
refdesk
salon
sci-tech daily
smirking chimp
tompaine
znet

C-DOG'S BUMPER STICKERS

The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism