From my new favorite website, The Daily Galaxy:

Cosmological calculations indicate that the vast array of objects we can detect are just foam on top of a vast invisible sea of matter we can’t detect, and two teams think the key to the undetectable lies in our very own star.

Foam on top of a vast invisible sea—I’ve been saying that for years. More on dark matter, and lots of great images, not including the key to the undetectable, over here.

Via Make:

The “Third Eye” by Takehito Etani, is a head-mounted video device that enables the wearer to experience perception from “outside of their body”. The device consists of a mono-eyed goggle with a 2-inch LCD monitor and a small surveillance camera mounted above the user’s head.

The above image was taken from the web site of Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and sometimes mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. According to the LAT, he’s admitted to putting the images on his site (later suggesting his son may have uploaded the content) but defended some of it as “funny.”

Although the judge is a Republican, he’s a staunch First Amendment defender, which we here at DG welcome. A word of advice, your honor: Next time you want to put some weird pr0n on your site, let us do it for you … We’ll even make you a superfriend!

Entire contents of Kozinski’s site found at Patterico’s, including a transsexual powerpoint presentation and a decidedly unfunny Mastercard spoof involving defecation. Oh, and some priest/little boy jokes.

Many Same calls itself a “universal archive of sameness,” but you don’t need no high-falutin language to enjoy 41 pictures of cats in a box. Or 45 pictures of people passed out. It’s kinda like Hans Eijkelboom, but more bizarre.

via DGSF Ryan

Warning: This is a long-ish video (20 minutes). But it’s fascinating, once you get into it, for two reasons: Dude wants to “cure” aging and thinks the first human beings to live 1,000 years have already been born. And he LOOKS LIKE FATHER TIME.

A fascinating story, penned by my former boss, about sex with robots, and how the theme evolved into its current form on Battlestar Gallactica:

What may not be so obvious is that “Galactica” is, like “West Side Story,” gently pushing the same message as “Romeo and Juliet.” When the robots and humans are not trying to kill one another, they rather convincingly fall in love. Montague or Capulet, Puerto Rican or Anglo, human or robot — true love transcends all divides, or so the show seems to be saying.

That, presumably, is why an episode shown on May 20 was titled “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?” Stanley Kramer’s similarly named romantic comedy from 1967, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” is about the engagement of an African-American man and a white woman, which causes consternation for her liberal parents. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 states when that movie was made; its tag line was “A love story for today.”

Do the writers of “Battlestar Galactica” think their saga is a love story for tomorrow? If so, they wouldn’t be alone — which perhaps goes to show that our universe is even stranger than that of “Galactica.”

Image via AIDS-3D.

Article and more video (don’t miss! the monkey manipulates the arm so he can lick the fingers):

In a dramatic display of the potential of prosthetic arms, a monkey at the University of Pittsburgh was able to use his brain to directly control a robotic arm and feed himself a marshmallow. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to show that an interface that converts brain signals directly into action is sophisticated enough to perform a practical function: eating. Researchers who led the work have just begun human tests of a related technology.

A story about developing the DNA of an extinct tasmanian tiger into an embryo. The reporter ends by playing it close to the chest, saying “…many people wonder: What’s next?” DUH. JURASSIC PARK IS NEXT. Get in line for your tickets. Opening date: 2060, when you and I are still spry enough to gun it to 88 mph in our flying cars.

Singularities, which are fascinating, have been peered into recently and new discoveries are made into how to retrieve information from black holes.

Through Ray Kurzweil’s website, comes This fascinating article:

Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, not even light can escape. The team’s findings pave the way toward ending a decades-long debate sparked by renowned physicist Steven Hawking.

“Once you consider quantum gravity, then space-time becomes much larger and there is room for information to reappear in the distant future on the other side of what was first thought to be the end of space-time.”

Are you serious? What does that mean? Information is being spit into the future and we have to wait for it? Is this a LOST theory?

Ray Kurzweil’s technological singularity borrows the principle to describe a point in the near future when technology begins to increase along Moore’s Law so rapidly that the outcome is impossible to predict, or something.