Even Yet Another (Yep, One More) List
This time Science News' late-summer science reading list. Lots of good stuff here, and, other than Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds, I haven't even heard of any of them.
Every Picture Tells A Story, Don't It?
The BBC's website has a daguerreotype of Constanze Mozart. Wow, a photo of Mozart's widow!
Everybody Loses
Matsushita and Toshiba call off talks about Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Let the public decide, they say. My guess? People will say, "A pox on both your houses" rather than gamble on choosing wrong. Again. Don't these bozos ever learn?
Everybody Loves Mazes
The Beeb spells out precisely why DRM is anticonsumerhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7136527.stm">anticonsumer;.
Everybody's a Ham
Bagheera tries her hand at the dramatic chipmunk memehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw">meme;.
Everything I Know I Learned From My Cat
"When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner."
Gary Smith
Gary Smith
Everything Must Go
What chapter comes after Chapter 11? The final chapter, of course. Looks like Tower Records has reached it.
Everything Old Is New Again
Is the "new" mammal from Borneo really the rediscovery of the (previously thought) extinct Hose's Palm Civet? The always fascinating Cryptomundo weighs in.
Everything We Thought We Knew About the Sun Is Now Out of Date
The Japanese orbiting solar observatory Hinode has captured startling images of the Sun's outer limb and giant magnetic field loops crashing down into its surface. "Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes."
Everything You Know Is Wrong, Chapter 1147
One of the best books I read last year was Jared Diamond's Collapse, which argues that Easter Island is a classic tale of ecological disaster caused by overpopulation and the depletion of irreplaceable resources. Not so fast, says Terry L. Hunt.