Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son’s tooth in his eye Thu Feb 28, 1:30 AM ET DUBLIN (AFP) – An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son’s tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday. Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in [...]

We can now see electrons! Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have combined an oscilloscope with a rapidly firing laser to give us this: the electron in motion. Electron Movie Quicktime movie courtesy of MSNBC, who in turn got it from Lund University. So cool!

Wired’s blog had a write up of Neil Turok, one of the big M-Theory brains at Cambridge, who is proposing the multiverse-rending idea that the Big Bang wasn’t the start of all space and time, and instead is one of many cycles of “Bangs.” He posits that space and time have no beginning. But haven’t [...]

I’m sure the Blogosphere is about to set itself on fire with discussions of what Castro’s resignation means. Some people will insist that he’s already dead and that this “beyond the grave” voice is an attempt to maintain the peace in a period of transition. I’m sure plenty of Cubans will be dancing in the [...]

So the good folks at Boing Boing had a link posted today of a mashup of Japanese commercials featuring Ronald McDonald. It was mildly amusing on its own — it went on too long and wasn’t nearly as mind-blowing as, say, the iconic Kikkoman commercial. But the best thing to come out of it was [...]