Archive for the 'Science like Magic' Category

The Inner Life of the Cell

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell, illustrating mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimulus. This award winning piece was the first topic in a series of animations XVIVO is creating for Harvards educational website BioVisions at Harvard.

This is an incredible bit of Flash work which conveys some of the humbling complexity within a single human cell. Check out the majesty of the inner universe, the microtubules, the golgi!

Conception and Scientific Content by Alain Viel and Robert A Lue
Animation by John Liebler/XVIVO and Biovisions, Harvard College

Free Energy (?)

Monday, September 11th, 2006

“All great truths begin as
blasphemies”

—George Bernard Shaw

Then again, all great hoaxes begin as marketing campaigns….

Imagine a world with an infinite supply of pure energy.
Never having to recharge your phone.
Never having to refuel your car.
This is what Steorn claims to have discovered. They are either just trying to harvest an email list of people interested in alternative energy, or perhaps they have learned how to tap into dark matter for energy.

Steorn claims to have developed a technology that produces free, clean and
constant energy. Their technology has been independently validated by
engineers and scientists—always behind closed doors, always off the record,
always proven to work.

The thing is, these guys are just scam artists looking how to use zero energy to separate investors from their cash. No friction at all!

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