Moonwater

Study Week

It’s the study week. I feel immensely numb. As if they can’t hurt me. Well, I suppose after that storm of a semester, that’s sort of true. The exams are spaced out like nobody’s business, so I get the feeling that it’ll be a slightly different exam period. We’ll take it a day at a time, I suppose, but now that it’s the third year, I don’t think that it’s going to be causing any major states of alarm.

My study plan is actually quite simple. I’ll just be cycling through the things over and over until we reach D-day, and then it’s basically an amusement ride on rails. So, here goes.

Space!

Water found on the Moon! [via SPACE.com]

The Lovely Bones

Boneworms are a relatively newly discovered genus (Osedax) of worms that eat bones.  They live in the sea. [via ScienceDaily] Most of them haven’t been named, but their story is immensely interesting.

Moorcock x Doctor Who

Michael Moorcock should be penning a new Doctor Who novel. [via Moorcock's Miscellany]

风声 Trailer

I want to watch this movie.

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Physics Nobel

This year’s Physics Nobel has gone to CCD sensor pioneers Charles K. Kao,  Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. Congratulations, sirs, and thanks for the cameras.

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A few interesting things.

Tissue Culture Lab

Yesterday, I read this article that came in two parts. It was of particular interest to me because I happened to be writing about bioethics and was taking a break by checking out my RSS feed.

[Part 1 via we make money not art]
[Part 2 via we make money not art]

“The aim of the wet lab was not to have us run our own lab. The objective of the workshop was to present the general public with the technology and the dilemmas that accompanies it. A hands-on approach takes the technology beyond a strictly scientific approach and informs the debate on the ethical, cultural and social implication of tissue culture. What does it mean to work with living, semi-living or formely living beings? What does it mean to grow disembodied cells from a former organism? What’s the meaning of tissue culture for artistic purposes versus health application? Or the development of a new weapon?”

I like particularly that there is an artistic dimension to it that I wouldn’t quite have thought of.

New Doctor Who Logo

Here’s the Doctor Who logo going into 2010. [via BBC] I think it’s lovely because it definitely reminds me of the old Who in a good way. I suppose they’ve stopped needing to appear new and trendy, and that it’ll draw upon some of the old series in the Moffat era.

QM Microscopy

MIT electrical engineers propose a quantum mechanical measurement method that, unlike electron microscopy, will not require electrons to bounce off the material surface in order to produce an image, thus avoiding sample damage. [via PhysOrg]

Two Artists

Fleet Street Scandal is an online store features the art of Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham, and I really quite like it. [via Fleet Street Scandal] On the other hand, Ghee Happy is an endeavour by Sanjay Patel that “celebrates Indian/Hindu mythologies and culture [through] design and storytelling in a fun and charming way.” [via Ghee Happy]

Book recommendation will be up next, I think.

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Half-Time Report

Well, more like three quarters…

Three papers down. Math was worse than I thought it’d be. Signals was slightly better than I thought it’d be. Cell Biology was, hmm, I don’t know. The usual, I suppose. One more paper, though. Physiology, you better watch yourself.

Goodbye, April

Flip your calendars!

Hazardous

I was supposed to write some comments about The Hazards Of Love today, but it really just came in through the mail yesterday. That said, I’m just very happy to receive it, no matter how late. The signed booklet was a bit of a bonus.

I’ve listened to it once through. It’s certainly different. Not quite the catchy tunes of some previous efforts, and more of a cultured endeavour, an expansive drama that seems to go by very quickly despite being about an hour long. I’m still not sure what I think of it. Wasn’t what I was expecting, but certainly surprised me in a good way.

Friday Neuroscience

The brain works best when in the right rhythms. [via PhysOrg]

Sleeping and memory. [via Newsweek]

Gaming Goodness

New PixelJunk game forthcoming. [via Kotaku] I spend more time playing PSN games than actual PS3 games on that machine, so this news fills me with joy.

Sars Wars

There’s this slightly over-the-top Thai movie called Sars Wars. I’ve never watched it before, but the wackiness of the trailer makes me want to.

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