Nest of Neurons

Draw A Dino Day!

2011-01-28T11:56:00.000-08:00

http://drawadinosaurday.com/

Tolerance & Exploration

2011-01-17T11:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48033A timely and note worthy take on the recent shootings in Arizona from Harry @aintitcool.com.

New Series: Sherlock

2011-01-13T15:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh

Pieces of Skylight

2010-12-18T10:35:00.000-08:00

NEW FORM OF LIFE FOUND!

2010-12-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

NASA announcement: Arsenic-based life form discovered on Earthhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120204183.htmlhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/

The Poetry of Science

2010-10-31T07:39:00.000-07:00

Conversation between Neil Degrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins.

George St. Pierre On Museums

2010-10-19T06:55:00.000-07:00

"When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me." GSP, UFC champion

Darwin Coin!

2010-10-14T17:43:00.000-07:00

Joe Rogan + Music

2010-08-31T06:56:00.000-07:00

http://soundcloud.com/solowiowas-1/youre-a-fucking-human-being-joe-rogan-and-daft-punkDaft Punk mashup with Joe Rogan's You're a F&*#ing Human Being

The God Helmet

2010-08-30T20:57:00.000-07:00

Neuroscientist Michael Persinger uses helmet with solenoids to stimulate the brain with magnetic fields inducing a sense of presence of beings such as angels, demons, ghosts, and aliens. From episode one, "Is There a Creator?", of the Science Channel series "Through the Wormhole".

Big Bang Onward

2010-07-08T10:21:00.000-07:00

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Jupiter Loses A Stripe

2010-06-06T07:49:00.000-07:00

NASA blog posts:http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/NESPilotBlog/posts/post_1275576322241.html

Darwin BAMF

2010-05-31T07:56:00.000-07:00

Dana Carvey is "DARWIN" - watch more funny videos

List of Natural Science History Museums!

2010-05-06T07:59:00.000-07:00

Museum List Here

Improving Islams Image with Comic Books

2010-04-03T08:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHErXmjgLHoSuperheroes save the world every day. But could they also change the way the rest of the world sees Islam? Naif-Al-Mutawa, a psychologist and writer from Kuwait, believes they can. He has developed a successful comic book series that features 99 Islamic superheroes battling for a better world.The number 99 is no accident: each of the 99 superheroes

The Mad Hatter's Secret Ingredient: Math

2010-03-18T15:46:00.000-07:00

The first numbers that come to mind when thinking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland might be how much money the movie is raking in at the box office.But numbers also appear to be woven in among the talking rabbits and smoking caterpillars of the original stories. Author Lewis Carroll was also a math teacher in Oxford, England, and mathematicians say the Alice books are full of algebraic

Comics

2010-02-18T20:20:00.000-08:00

http://xkcd.com/A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language.

20 years

2010-02-12T08:30:00.000-08:00

It's an anniversary!Taken in 1990 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the "pale blue dot" photo shows what our planet looks like from four billion miles away. Earth is the tiny speck of light indicated by the arrow, and enlarged in the upper left-hand corner. The pale streak over Earth is an artifact of sunlight scattering in the camera's optics.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=

Darwin's Camera

2010-02-04T10:35:00.001-08:00

NPR article

Parastou Forouhar

2010-01-25T07:09:00.000-08:00

Creation

2010-01-23T15:37:00.000-08:00

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122818161

Open Your Eyes

2010-01-23T13:39:00.000-08:00

— Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder)

Life and Beats under the Microscope

2010-01-17T17:26:00.000-08:00

This is a song called "Zap Zap" by the electronic band Cut Copy.

SHERLOKIAN

2010-01-08T08:34:00.000-08:00

“If I claim full justice for my art it is because crime is common (and) logic is rare.” Sherlock Holmes, The Copper Beecheswww.sherlockian.net/http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/pl_screen/

TED VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization

2010-01-05T18:15:00.001-08:00

The Known Universe

2009-12-25T21:29:00.001-08:00

Back in Action

2009-12-14T07:50:00.001-08:00

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121352948Cern back up and running.

We have this blog because...

2009-11-17T07:03:00.000-08:00

Apparently some people out there think the world will end in 2012 because a bad movie is coming out. For those of you who believe the world will end, go here... http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.htmlFor those of you who think it's funny that we need websites like the above one...you are on the same planet with the other group of people. That is not funny, most of the time.

Owl Science Art Projects

2009-10-26T12:52:00.001-07:00

http://princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/Jeryl-owl.htm

Oldest Bird-Like Dinosaur

2009-09-28T20:41:00.000-07:00

Scientists in China have discovered the oldest dinosaur that had feathers. Thought to be between 1 to 11 million years older than the first known bird, the dinosaur, named Anchiornis huxley, was about 28 centimeters tall at its hip. From Science News: Click here for the Article.

Science + Sound = Get Down

2009-09-26T16:11:00.000-07:00

Hawking Awarded Highest U.S. Civilian Honor

2009-09-21T20:04:00.001-07:00

Persistent in his pursuit of knowledge, Stephen Hawking has unlocked new pathways of discovery and inspired people around the world. He has dedicated his life to exploring the fundamental laws that govern the universe, and he has contributed to some of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time. His work has stirred the imagination of experts and lay persons alike. Living with a disability

Firm Place to Stand

2009-09-17T15:19:00.000-07:00

Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a rocky surface, if only it weren't so broiling hot.

The Greatest Show on Earth

2009-09-12T14:00:00.000-07:00

Richard Dawkins gives an introduction to his new book "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution." He explains why this book was necessary, and what readers can expect from this highly-anticipated work. The book is available now in the UK, and will be released in the US on September 22nd!

The Art Of Science And The Science Of Art

2009-09-09T13:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112515247Alice Tangerini got her job illustrating plants for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History straight out of college in 1972. Her boss, botanist Warren Wagner, thinks she's now the best botanical illustrator in the U.S. — even with just one good eye. (read/hear/see more at the link above)

Ask the Expert: Are There Eleven Dimensions?

2009-08-10T12:12:00.000-07:00

Joseph Campbell - Hero Cycle - The Matrix

2009-08-01T10:44:00.000-07:00

Drawing the Universe - Matthew Ritchie

2009-07-27T11:46:00.001-07:00

Why are there still Chimpanzees?

2009-07-27T11:38:00.000-07:00

We were surprised by the source too...

2009-07-25T13:30:00.001-07:00

Korn - Evolution - Youtube

"Perfect Gods" by Robert Longo

2009-05-29T13:48:00.000-07:00

Robert Longo uses graphite like clay, molding it to create images like the writhing, dancing figures in his seminal "Men in the Cities" series. By the late 1980s Longo's drawings had grown in scale and over the next two decades their thematic range deepened into a group of distinct series of monstrous ocean waves, mushroom clouds, women's busts, handguns, and menacing sharks. (http://

NOVA- new season

2009-05-23T15:59:00.000-07:00

Darwinius masillae

2009-05-19T16:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/05/19/2009-05-19_missing_link_found_fossil_of_47_millionyearold_primate_sheds_light_on_.htmlFeast your eyes on what a group of scientists claim is the Holy Grail of human evolution.

Richard Dawkins - The Gaps in Science

2009-05-18T14:54:00.001-07:00

Update (or is there?)

2009-05-16T13:24:00.000-07:00

The man who lives in the Star Trek house

2009-05-09T15:50:00.000-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/8039807.stmTony Alleyne decided to turn his flat into a Star Trek spaceship after his wife left him. He now lives amid the transporter deck and LCARS control panels in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

Camera

2009-05-07T07:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2138

500,000,000 years in 50 seconds flat

2009-05-03T13:57:00.000-07:00

Secular Fundamentalism? Is there a value in Mythology?

2009-05-01T14:59:00.001-07:00

http://bigthink.com/samharris

PASTA

2009-04-30T15:35:00.000-07:00

Flying Spaghetti Monsterwww.venganza.orgWikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

David Attenborough Sums Up Evolution In Minutes

2009-04-30T10:38:00.001-07:00

Why We Believe in Gods

2009-04-29T06:22:00.000-07:00

Celebration

2009-04-27T08:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.newscientist.com/special/darwin-200

Richard Dawkins on CBC News

2009-04-26T18:59:00.000-07:00

The Demon-Haunted World: Carl Sagan

2009-04-26T16:02:00.000-07:00

Open-Mindedness

2009-04-26T16:00:00.000-07:00

Christopher Hitchens - The Tyranny of a Callous God

2009-04-26T15:37:00.000-07:00

The Evolution of Religions: Jared Diamond

2009-04-26T15:31:00.000-07:00

The Pale Blue Dot

2009-04-26T14:53:00.001-07:00

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Universe

2009-04-26T14:51:00.000-07:00

Bill Nye of Astrology

2009-04-26T14:48:00.000-07:00

mattamiley.com is up and running!

2008-12-01T18:44:00.000-08:00

My name is Matt Miley. I am an American artist.