Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Tanzania’s Albinos

Twenty-five people with albinism have been murdered in Tanzania since March, a BBC investigation has found.

Yet more attrocities commited in the name of religion.

The latest victim was a seven-month-old baby. He was mutilated on the orders of a witchdoctor peddling the belief that potions made from an albino’s legs, hair, hands, and blood can make a person rich.

Tolstoy’s supposed to be special?

City & Cityhead

Despairhead

Door study

Door Study

Door Study

Rage for Order

Oliver Sacks’s documentary on autism.

It’s not easy being weird - I can testify to that.

The autistic lady who doesn’t like “What” questions reminded me of Karl Popper.

Energy efficiency through transgenics

In a previous post, I wrote:

There are many animals that see in the dark. If we could somehow extract this “night-seeing” property of animals and add it to our genome, then we could significantly reduce global warming! Think about it. If we can see in the dark, then we can turn the lights off!

Well, I had another idea along the same lines. Electric fish can generate electric fields. If we could generate electric fields to charge our laptops, mobile phones, and the like, we would significantly reduce our fossile fuel consumption.

The possibilities are limitless!