Sexy Jihad

I just saw this great link on Boingboing about people building remote controlled Star Wars craft that can actually fly! Check it out is you’re a Star Wars fan, you won’t be dissapointed.

Kuro5hin has written the first of what will be a whole line of articles on fractals for beginners. An excerpt:
In order to cover fractals in any meaningful way, I am going to first examine what lies behind them. The first, and most important, of these elements is “Chaos Theory”, a branch of mathematics that is […]

The BBC has written an excellent profile on one of the most talked about Islamic thinkers of our time, Tariq Ramadan:
Islamic extremist or the man leading reform of the faith? Professor Tariq Ramadan explains why his critics are wrong and why the London bombings mean more than ever that Western Muslims must split from the […]

The BBC reports of a new study with some suprising reults. Namely that certain parts of your brain switch off when you blink:
Parts of the brain are temporarily “switched off” when we blink, scientists have found.
The team from University College London found the brain shut down parts of the visual system for each blink.
Writing in […]