This article about the unknown age, construction, and purpose of about 70 round towers scattered about Ireland is a fascinating read overall, but a few choice quotes (from separate sections) are especially interesting because of the implications about energy: “Using infrared photography, it has been noted that though there is clearly a roof ...

Someone recently brought this specific xkcd comic strip to my attention, so if you want to see what happens when Pong and the Matrix collide, click here - LOL. Technorati Tags: artificial intelligence, ai, pong, ...

Click here and see which way YOU think the dancer is rotating! Then try to switch your perception to the other direction. Neat! Technorati Tags: left brain, right brain, brain, visual, perspective, ...

I actually caught a photo of a shooting star during the Perseid Meteor Shower last night! I had the loose intention of catching one, but I had no idea how I was really going to do it. Since I was just taking 30 second exposures of the general patch of sky where the [...]