Summer is coming.<\/p>\n
Insect-like Robots<\/a><\/strong> 47 Words That Might Not Exist<\/a><\/strong> Island for Sale<\/a><\/strong> What Ancient Statues Really Looked Like<\/a><\/strong> 80,000 Applicants, 4 Positions, 1 Job: Mars<\/a><\/strong> Glow-in-the-Dark Trees<\/strong> Their Kickstarter campaign<\/a>: The Periodic Table Song<\/strong>
\nVery cool, and also little weird. Like every movie with a robot insect secretly watching someone.<\/p>\n
\nOk, to be accurate, the book they were originally found in might not exist. Or at least the poor folks at the Oxford English Dictionary can’t find the book. It’s called “Meanderings on Memory”, published around 1859 and it appears to be the source of around 47 words in the English language. If, that is, it actually exists.<\/p>\n
\nIn Scotland, mind you, one of the Summer Isles. It’s inhabited, so you’ll have neighbors, and it does have features (e.g. a post office and a cafe).<\/p>\n
\nA little ultraviolet light and we can see that the ancient Greeks and Romans had \u2026. really bad taste. Seriously, take a look. Scientists and art historians have used ultraviolet light to find what paints were used to cover those classic statues we all just assumed always looked like that. And it turns out that they were often a little \u2026 garish.<\/p>\n
\nSo remember that Mars One project I linked to in a previous Geek Review? No? Well, to sum up, there’s a Dutch company that plans on creating a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023. They’re picking their permanent Mars residents out of a giant pool of online applicants, and they plan on making the selection process of the Final Four into a reality show to pay for the whole expedition. It’s so crazy, it just might work. Anyway, here’s an article talking about it, with a new version of the Mars One intro video.<\/p>\n
\nReally. Several enterprising scientists have a Kickstarter campaign going to fund glowing trees that will replace street lights. All the energy will come from regular old photosynthesis. Yes, we’re in the future now.<\/p>\n
\nThem answering questions on Reddit<\/a>:<\/p>\n
\nNo, not the Animiacs. Didn’t they do a periodic table song? No? Well, I’m including their version of the Nations of the World song anyway. Also, damn! I’d forgotten how crazy that Animaniacs song is.<\/p>\n