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Friday November 14th 2008

Roger Hiorns: seizure. 21524

http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/roger-hiorns-seizure/

by oblio Fri Nov 14th, 2008 9:52pm (from #bor) [score: 97 | approval: 50%]

In his latest installation, Seizure, British artist Roger Hiorns has turned the idea of sculpture inside out. Rather than present a sculpture inside an architectural space, hes turned every surface of the architectural space into sculpture. More →

80,000 litres of a copper sulphate solution was poured in from a hole in the ceiling. After a few weeks the temperature of the solution fell and the crystals began to grow.

art, crystals, science, sculpture, seizure

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Thursday November 13th 2008

Microalgae Biofuels 21375

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9wjR7gi4w

by mimo Tue Nov 11th, 2008 8:30am (from bordom.net) *bumped by oblio* [score: 154 | approval: 53%]

biofuels, microalgae, science

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Friday November 7th 2008

Eco-nightclub Opens: Powered by Dancers 21264

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7501000/7501138.stm

by coolguy Thu Nov 6th, 2008 12:39pm (from bordom.net) [score: 160 | approval: 75%]

The venue's dancefloor is made up of wooden boards. But underneath are crystals which compress when people tread above them and as they move an electrical current is generated. This "piezoelectricity" is fed back into the club's energy supply powering all its lights and air conditioning. It's even thought there will be a bit left over to power nearby homes in London's Kings Cross district. More →

environment, nightclub, piezoelectricity, science

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Tuesday November 4th 2008

World's first Blue Roses 21191

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses...

by coolguy Mon Nov 3rd, 2008 8:50am (from bordom.net) [score: 110 | approval: 69%]

They are the stuff of legend - signifying mystery and traditionally believed to be able to grant the owner youth. For years breeders have crossed different colours of roses in an effort to create the impossible. But rose petals lack the enzyme needed to create a blue pigment and the breeders always failed. Now for the first time, thanks to genetic engineering, blue roses finally exist. More →

The flowers have a gene from a petunia inserted in them

blue, genetic engineering, genetics, roses, science

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Thursday October 30th 2008

Periodic Table Shower Curtain 21125

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8a2f/

by coolguy Wed Oct 29th, 2008 4:41pm (from bordom.net) [score: 155 | approval: 82%]

How many times has this happened to you? You're showering, lathering up your hair, and as you read the ingredients, you notice Sodium Laureth Sulfate. Of course, you know it's a straight-chain alkyl benzene sulfonate (I mean, who doesn't?), but you forgot what Laureth is! The horror! More →

Cleanliness is next to Americium

periodic table, science, shower curtain

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Friday October 24th 2008

Gay Scientists Have Isolated the Christian Gene 20980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPKH_XjY5aI

by coolguy Thu Oct 23rd, 2008 4:18pm (from bordom.net) [score: 197 | approval: 90%]

Gay Scientists Have Isolated the Christian Gene

Scientific Breakthrough More →

lol, total win

christian, finally, gay, gene, genes, genetics, religion, science

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Thursday October 23rd 2008

The Sweet Tea Line 20916

http://eightoverfive.com/SweetTea.swf

by joeyo Tue Oct 21st, 2008 5:08pm (from #bor) [score: 171 | approval: 69%]

Tea has been an American tradition since the British colonials but Sweet Tea has a southern tradition born in the nineteenth century. The oldest sweet tea recipe in print comes from a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia , by Marion Cabell Tyree, published in 1879. However, it is known that recipes and traditions preceded this publication by several decades. Sweet Tea grew in popularity with it's public introduction at the 1904 World's Fair. Today Sweet Tea is undoubtedly sill popular wherever it is available. In 1999, Americans drank 50 billion servings of tea, that's about half the population consuming a cup or glass every day. Eighty-five percent of that tea was iced. More →

SWEET TEA!#$%!$@#^!

culture, mason dixon line, north, science, south, sweet tea

1 comment

Wednesday October 15th 2008

Sperm trains and promiscuous rodents 20635

http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/biologist/sperm-trains-and-promiscous-rodents/

by oblio Fri Oct 10th, 2008 4:56pm (from #bor) [score: 118 | approval: 53%]

I had always pictured sperm as little tadpoles but it turns out that rodent sperm actually have some rather nasty looking hooks on their heads. Scientists were not sure what the purpose of these hooks was. Some guessed they were just for aerodynamics while others had observed sperm using their hooks to link up and form cooperative groups. More →

boring, hooks, rodents, science, sperm

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Tuesday October 7th 2008

Alien rock from Mars 20507

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAe6000kwck

by threeiem Mon Oct 6th, 2008 10:37pm (from bordom.net) [score: 142 | approval: 90%]

alien rock, chemistry, growing rock, mercury thiocyanide, science, science experiment

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Monday October 6th 2008

Stripper science earns frivolous fame 20494

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26996167/

by oblio Mon Oct 6th, 2008 1:53pm (from #bor) [score: 209 | approval: 100%]

Sara Kembriri from Albania performs during September's Miss Pole Dance Europe competition in Amsterdam. Psychologists found that the average earnings of professional exotic dancers rose when they were at peak fertility which earned the researchers an Ig Nobel Prize. More →

fertility, science, stripper, study

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Friday November 14th 2008

Roger Hiorns: seizure. 21524

Thursday November 13th 2008

Microalgae Biofuels 21375

Friday November 7th 2008

Eco-nightclub Opens: Powered by Dancers 21264

Tuesday November 4th 2008

World's first Blue Roses 21191

Thursday October 30th 2008

Periodic Table Shower Curtain 21125

Friday October 24th 2008

Gay Scientists Have Isolated the Christian Gene 20980

Thursday October 23rd 2008

The Sweet Tea Line 20916

Wednesday October 15th 2008

Sperm trains and promiscuous rodents 20635

Tuesday October 7th 2008

Alien rock from Mars 20507

Monday October 6th 2008

Stripper science earns frivolous fame 20494

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