The New York Times’ most popular article today centers around miracle fruit, an African fruit that deranges your taste buds for about an hour, making everything taste insanely sweeter than it should. Everything: vinegar, Tabasco sauce, Brussels sprouts. Lemons, it is said, are especially delicious. The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is native to West Africa [...]

Now they can control robot arms with their minds. From the New York Times: Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists [...]

So I just spent the last hour or so playing Budget Hero, a game sponsored by American Public Media, who worked with several government offices to create a well-researched game on how we as Americans should be spending our tax dollars. It’s very interesting, in both senses of the word: the “fascinating, engaging, informative, stimulating” [...]

Never has a cloyingly-sweet confection been made to suffer such needlessly elaborate torture. I can’t help but wonder just how much of his life this guy spent making the ultimate Egg Creme destruction machine.

The sober text from AP that accompanies this photo reads: Models and the Vienna Boys Choir stand on the stage during the opening of the 16th annual Life Ball in front of Vienna’s city hall, on Saturday, May 17, 2008. The Life Ball is a charity gala where organizers raise money for people living with [...]

I have a long day tomorrow and shouldn’t be up this late, but my honey-boo is working on a project, and, if I’m awake, she can blast her music. So I’m awake. So, after a long absence, I long onto Second Life, just to see what’s what. In case you haven’t been on in awhile, [...]