Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories…name your lurid moniker. These old pulps are wonderfully art directed considering they were designed to do one thing – sell. These covers helped to set the adolescent mind into motion like throwing gas on a fire. The cover lines were wonderfully leading and many of these old pulps […]

Apparently a company invented a high pitched machine (mosquito like sound) to drive away teengers from loitering (get off my lawn you pesky kids!) but kids being kids – apparently made it into a ringtone that only they could hear in the classroom. Mythbusters, where are you? But as the old saying goes, if it’s […]

I have no idea what this hammerhead bug is but I am certainly glad that it is not that large. Since this photo comes from our friends over at Eye of Science, the bug in question is obviously tiny. I just hope it doesn’t live on our flesh for some unfathomable reason much like dust […]

It was tough resisting temptation to write a lurid headline using the phrase “DNA” and hanging on the walls but I resisted – damn this aging into respectability 😉 For $300+, DNA11 will take your DNA and make it into art … or your fingerprints … so you can stare and ponder your existence here […]

From CNN.com, the clues get 21st century – a diary on eBay and more clues: • Claims of distress calls heard thousands of miles away resurface • Evidence of castaways found on remote South Pacific atoll All very interesting – sounds like it’s time for another Hollywood movie.

Mite-y nice! This little blighter is an itch mite magnified 300x (Eye of Science). This photo shows it on human skin snacking away. The bad news is this little bugger causes scabies. The good news is that affliction is treatable. I don’t know whether to be more horrified that this little thing can be crawling […]

If you are unfamiliar with the concept, you take a light-tight box, poke it with a teeny hole, place film inside (while in a darkroom or blackbag), and then remove the hole (lens) cover and voila! Photos in focus. Check out this site over at Merrill Photo for instructions on how to make your own […]

Yea, some headlines write themselves. A guy named Lloyd is building this 16-foot storage shed and dropping it into a lake. The BioSub Project. His plan? Irrigate oxygen producing algae with his urine and then when he’s hungry, eat the algae … out of air? He’s gonna literally jump on his bike and pedal to […]

All your base (sugars) belong to us! Spring has sprung which means it’s bug-time here in the Southeastern U.S. Everything from bees, wasps, and hornets to freaking fire ants (which brings new life to the term ‘ankle biter’) and termites which chew on homes here faster than Rosie can hoover up donuts. Just last year […]

Today’s NanoPhoto instantly makes sense once you know what it is… Velcro! Yep. Otherwise known as hook-and-loop material (sans copyright) and it is very interesting to see at the nano-level exactly how this wonder material works. Of course there is always duct tape which should be placed in every boy’s crib at birth. You can […]