As a recent article from Wired Science puts it, “one way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem.”  So, they interviewed Cal Tech physicist Sean Carroll about his talk at the recent meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science.
Carroll’s latest book “From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of [...]

 
When I first saw this, I thought, “Yikes!”  
But it’s the artistic creation of RoboSteel, an Ireland-based firm that creates sculptures from scrap metal (their website is www.robosteel.com, where they also make metal scupltures of Star Wars, Predator, and Terminator characters).   
The large Alien Queen is only 4,500 Euros (what a bargain!)…
Here’s the article from Wired GadgetLab…

Ever wonder what controls your body clock?  Well, according to scientists, it’s a grain-of-rice sized clump of neurons in the brain. 
Here’s the Forbes article that tell us more…

I highlighted a really cool article from the latest Wired Magazine on compressive sensing in my previous post.  But there are three other cool items that are worth catching your eyes on:
- If you dig movies (I mean, you doesn’t!?), then this is kinda fun to fill in the blanks on some famous movie lines.  Here’s the article called Bit [...]

A very cool article on what’s called “compressive sensing” is featured in the latest issue of Wired Magazine.  It turns out that our company (Areté Associates) has really been at the forefront of exploiting this technology (I’ve even worked with some great guys to develop a patent based on these approaches…). 
Here’s the article on how amazingly impressive the technology is.