Some folks claim to have found a Bosnian stairs-like pyramid, about 12,000 years old. Photos of the research here. Scientific sleuth cracks code to $54,000 treasure Ants in the Amazon rain forest labor to keep their territory free by using formic acid as a herbicide. The remains of a massive Gold Rush-era sailing ship dating …
Tag Archives: science & technology
The Long Now’s Orrery
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but finally got around to it after reading at Boing Boing that the Long Now project unveiled their prototype, the Orrery clock. Jacob Appelbaum has some great photos of the event. What is all this fuss over a clock? Discover has a lot of good …
Nifty Inventions
This seems well done: The LifeStraw can give a person clean water for a year and uses no energy except suction from the user. It filters up to 15 microns and also treats water with iodine impregnated beads. At a cost of $2 a pop, it seems like this would be great for most 3rd …
Science links
I saw some of these in Peru, interesting that they are just now starting to figure them out – Cryptic string-based communication system used by ancient Incan administrators may at last be unravelling, thanks to computer analysis of hundreds of different knotted bundles. The permafrost of the world’s largest peat bog (size of France and …
Site htaccess changes
I’ve finally gotten around to messing with my htaccess file and added the following: # Error pages ErrorDocument 404 /404.php # Redirect Redirect /blog/blog.html http://www.chrisnelson.ca/ Redirect /blog/index.html http://www.chrisnelson.ca/ Redirect /blog/atom.xml http://www.chrisnelson.ca/feed/atom/ The Error Pages part redirects 404 errors to my 404 page, so my hosts’ doesn’t show up. I don’t really care about the other …