Let’s don’t get hysterical
Tag: science
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When our tools wear out their welcomes
Scientific innovation may enhance reliability, but it can also ignore conventional wisdom.
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Playing music might actually keep you from losing your hearing, or maybe not
You’re either improving or destroying your hearing. It’s hard to say.
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Through 10/10—Free Performances of QED at Northwestern
Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science presents free performances of Peter Parnell’s QED through October 10.
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The Nature of Existence
Roger Nygard’s comic documentary “The Nature of Existence” screens through Saturday at Facets Cinematheque.
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Don’t Baby, Baby
What do you say? Yeah, I think that just turning and leaving is a pretty good answer
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Evasion of the Bodysnatchers
“We’ve secretly replaced the regular cremains at this upscale funeral home with Seamans’ Crystals™. Can these discriminating mourners tell the difference? Let’s find out.”
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Welcome back
Some of the early adopters who ditched Fermilab for the Large Hadron Collider are returning to Chicagoland’s finest particle accelerator as CERN works on the LHC’s “baby problems.”
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A more serious kind of Peter Pan Syndrome
A psychology professor theorizes about MJ’s sex life.
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H1N1, swine flu… or Gorgon flu?
Following the heated swine flu nomenclature debate, and proposing on a classicist settlement.
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Pandemic… got that (suspected, probable) pandemic
Delving into the richness on the Web – including actual genomic sequences – about swine flu.
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10/31 — Museum of Science and Industry
Friday: Spooky Science at the Museum of Science and Industry