Here’s an interesting project you could take on if you’re handy with a Dremel tool. Or if you’re like me you’d probably just break down and purchase this laser cut acrylic mirror for only 58 EUR.

This ‘puzzling’ Tetris Mirror was designed by Soner Ozenc.

The Australian News re-prints a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. I suspect we’ll be hearing more and more like this as we collect additional data.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued … This is not what you’d expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you’d expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up … So (it’s) very unexpected, not something that’s being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it’s very significant."

Duffy: "It’s not only that it’s not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there’s any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it’s put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary."

I’ve been waiting for this for well over a year now and last week its finally arrived.

Blasting off where the Sci-Fi Channel’s longest running show, Stargate SG-1, left off, this thrilling feature thrusts the Stargate team in search of an Ancient artifact they hope will help defeat the oppressive Ori.

Amazon has this for just US $17, I wonder if I’ll get this for my birthday…

via MAKE magazine:

Made by a Cub Scout and his father that teaches a microbiology class, they were participating in a fund raiser. Heck, I’d buy this!

They made these edible and delicious deserts in left over (never used) petri dishes to resemble some cultures you’d likely find in the real world. Ingredients used include lemon pie filling, tapioca, jello.

Link to original location: Bacteria culture Jello desserts!

New Scientist has an interesting report on recently declassified documents describing experiments on ‘ray gun’ technologies to cause everything from epilepsy like seizures to putting words in your head. This is the kind of innovation I just love to see in a military, thinking outside the box and trying to port Sci-Fi weapons to real life.