iamcal.com Since May 2000

There's a great little piece in New York Magazine about the restoration of the NYC subway after Hurricane Sandy. It echoes some of the things at the start of The World Without Us about the huge level of everyday maintenance required to keep the subway system from flooding completely.

i went to CERN when i was in high school and james bridle is right - it's amazing

reading the archive of zomgscience is worth it

not only do some crabs have blood that is blue, it's worth $15k per quart. crab blood!

learning science is best when you do it yourself. does that apply to other subjects?

yup, the universe it pretty big. and the planck length is pretty small

using angled cups to drink coffee in space. go science!

the physics of spaces battles is an excellent read

these photos of the LHC are awesome - i had a chance to tour it a few years back and it's amazing in person too

this cell sizing demo is very nicely put together. i'd like a version that goes up to galaxies and down to atomic nuclei

it's a thursday sciencegasm with this awesome illustration of electromagnetic waves vs the atmosphere

i would subscribe to vague scientist

"The challenge isn't creating the heat; it's engineering a bacon structure strong enough to withstand the stress of a 5,000°F bacon plasma flame."

i'm not sure if the sense of scale measurements are correct, but it looks great

miracle berry tablets seem pretty awesome. i need to get some :)

over-enthusiastic anatomy diagrams are freaky. nice

this xkcd still makes me smile. it helps if you've seen the discovery channel advert

i wish we had science fairs in the uk

science finally answers the question that's been weighing on all our mins for so long - does a duck's quack echo? [via b4ta]

world jump day sounds slightly crazy. after fixing global warming by jumping, maybe we can fix poverty by standing on one leg.