Let’s don’t get hysterical
Tag: science
When our tools wear out their welcomes
Scientific innovation may enhance reliability, but it can also ignore conventional wisdom.
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.
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.
The Nature of Existence
Roger Nygard’s comic documentary “The Nature of Existence” screens through Saturday at Facets Cinematheque.
Don’t Baby, Baby
What do you say? Yeah, I think that just turning and leaving is a pretty good answer
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.”
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.”
A more serious kind of Peter Pan Syndrome
A psychology professor theorizes about MJ’s sex life.
H1N1, swine flu… or Gorgon flu?
Following the heated swine flu nomenclature debate, and proposing on a classicist settlement.
Pandemic… got that (suspected, probable) pandemic
Delving into the richness on the Web – including actual genomic sequences – about swine flu.
10/31 — Museum of Science and Industry
Friday: Spooky Science at the Museum of Science and Industry