Tales from the Raven

Some pretty cool pictures of critters in the zen mode–scientists in China are playing with levitation.  I haven’t figured out how to stick a picture in my blog, so you’ll have to follow the link.  Sorry.

An article on Yahoo News is reporting NASA plans to build a lunar outpost on one of the moon’s poles, so that astronauts could be staying on the moon for stints of six months by 2024.
There is some noise of commercial interests, but what they really need (if they’re going to fund the Mars expedition) is a [...]

I really will put up a longer blog about robots and all things robotic, but in the meantime, here’s a list of Five Robots You Don’t Want To Mess With. 
The Tetra Vaal Robot Video really weirds me out.  They think it’s a good idea to give a robot a gun and tell it to shoot [...]

Remember when I blogged about food colors, and what colors are appetizing?  Well, apparently tomatoes will now be served up in a new color.  They’re aiming at blue, but it looks closer to a rotten purple. 
Still, they’re supposed to deliver the great phytochemicals found in blueberries, and who knows, they may aesthetically replace the red onion on the [...]

When I drive by a major accident on the freeway, or hear of storms raging and people dying in some other part of the world, I am always struck by how oddly connected yet seperate people are. 
That someone’s brother can be shot overseas, that a mother’s child can die in the womb, that a student’s [...]

Of all the time and labor services that have entered homes in the last one hundred years, it seems to me that the kitchen has been most revolutionized.  We prep after pulling the food from our fridge, wash up in the sink, saute on the cooktop, reheat in the microwave, and cleanup in the dishwasher.
But [...]

I came across these pictures of a brain and the universe and they got me suppositioning. 
Suppose the universe as we know it is all inside someone’s head?  That would certainly be one way God could know everything and be everywhere.
Suppose the universe is a collosal brain, and the big bang was the result of a brain cramp.  Or the [...]

Move over, Army team.  Get out of the pond, Navy SEALs.  The sharp-shootenest fish around are here to clean up this here town.

We know that many dinosaurs were quite large and that wooly mammoths were bigger than elephants of today.  Even tigers have shrunk over time.  And now, it seems, the camels have been down-sizing too.  According to a recent find in Syria, camels of about 100,000 years ago were almost twice the size they are now.  So the question this [...]

Just think what Batman would give for a car like this. 
Watch your back, Doctor Death; laugh on that, Penguin; try tracking this, Bane! 
The Batmobile now has the latest in stealth.