What happens when you substitute the human FOXP2 gene for that of a mouse?  According to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, not much, except this interesting result — it changes their vocalizations. While the FOXP2 gene is important in the development of many different tissues, in humans it affects the development [...]

   This week Brian Eno transformed Sydney Opera House with mega projections of his 77 Million Paintings… (Stunning images from this DailyMail piece)       Go to the feed source of this article Go to publisher’s website This article appeared on the website mentioned above and the author and/or the publisher are to be [...]

Last week Kurzweilai.net ran a clip of this post from Nanowerk (a more complete report will be available here June 10th): “A new experimental computer memory device that can store 1 terabyte per square inch… with an estimated lifetime of more than one billion years has been developed by Alex Zettl of UC Berkeley and [...]

Put down your crosswords, cryptograms and sudoku.  Instead try boosting your brain power by deciphering an ancient script.  In case you have forgotten which ones are still available and want to stake your claim, here is a catalog with difficulty ranking based on two important criteria:  language (known/unknown) and script (known/unknown).  All have teased many [...]

Swedish design group Humans Since 1982 created this digital readout called The Clock Clock made of 24 analog clocks.  Notice the time reads 09:25 digitally above.  You can go to their website to see an animation of the clocks in action as well as download the font they create. Thanks to Creobic for this link [...]

  The good folks over at the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena who organized the Data and Art show that the Rosetta Disk was in, were kind enough to get some really nice photos taken of the micro-etched data side of the disk.  What you are looking at is over 13,000 tiny pages describing over [...]