Wes Phillips

Tone and intonation are key—as in any fretless instrument.

Is there a unified field theory for biology?

The Space Review has published an interesting look at Heinlein's collaborations with filmmakers. You've got to love an article that contains lines like this: "To the extent that such an awful piece of filmmaking can actually have a message, Rocketship X-M has a shallow and not terribly original message that nuclear war is bad for children and other living things. The universe is hostile, God hates us, and we’re all doomed. Have a nice day."

Apparently, Newton, not those modifiers, was right all along. F=ma totally rules!

The Fraunhofer Institute is working on an active soundproof window that's "particularly effective at frequencies of 50–1000Hz." I want one now—but it'll be four years before they make it to market.

Not that I had any idea what Sigur Ros' "Hoppipolla" was about (actually, I never know what any Sigur Ros song is about), but this video wouldn't have even made the top 20 possibilities.

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Four Tet has done something I would have thought impossible: produce an entertaining Morris dance video.