Carpe Decorum

One of a kind: a frog with retractable claws of bone, not keratin, which pierce the skin.

What we know now about the Antikythera Mechanism and how it works (Video)
And still haven’t found much on the web in metatonic cycles.

Although e-voting machines still cause concern, in his interview with Good Gear Avi Rubin is cautiously optimistic about the possibility of safe e-voting following this year’s primaries. Such a…

While other parts of Alaska are seeing few salmon, Bristol Bay has more sockeye salmon than the canneries can process.

It looks like switching to ferroelectric designs of hard drives may just overcome the physical limitations faced by the ferromagnetic hard drives now in use.
Bits are currently stored in the…

No Sense in Counting on Salmon This Year You could count on the fingers of both hands — no thumbs needed — the number of spring chinook salmon that swam through Willamette Falls Fish Passage on May…

Yes, a lot of web discussions (and gopher discussions beforehand) feature more heat than enlightenment, and passionate debates often use raw language.  But if, as Washington Post editor Jim Brady…

A nice bit of work honoring a woman who worked full-time to prevent others from making the same choice she did.
From Washington University’s Record
Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer…

In  White House Plans Proactive Cyber-Security Role for Spy Agencies Brian Kreb writes,
America’s spy agencies for the first time would be tasked with gathering intelligence on threats to the…

Another example of how new voting machines are failing to do their basic job: record and count votes.
Apparently, Sequoia has failed to build a number of voting machine that can add correctly. In…