Showing posts with label Cool/Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cool/Science. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

History of the World – by Jon

14000 MYA - Big Bang: Formation of the Universe
4600 MYA - Formation of Earth
543 MYA - 65 MYA – Boring Geological Time Periods
5 MYA – 2500 BC – Stone Age: The Human Era
70000 BC – 8000 BC – Ice Age: Extinction of Large Mammals
9000 BC – 4500 BC – Neolithic: First Permanent Settlements
3200 BC – 1200 BC – Bronze Age: First Pharaohs
1200 BC – 332 BC – Iron Age Start of the Trojan War
332 BC – 63 BC – Hellenistic Period
63 BC – 476 – Roman Period
330 – 1453 – Byzantine Period
476 – 1350 – Middle Ages
1350 – 1600 – Renaissance
1500 – 1600 – Reformation
1600 – 1800 - Enlightenment
1750 – 1900 – Industrial Revolution
1900 – 2000 – 20th Century
(2007 – Lululemon athletica inc.)
(2009 - Beginning of The Four Writters Period)
2000 – 2010 – 21st Century

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Interesting Essay - by Jon

Below is a link to a facinating short essay on the behavior of Psycopaths. Unfortunately, it's not entirely conclusive as some of it is kinda speculative.
There's a quiz you can take that'll let you know how close to Psycopath you really are.
It brought to mind a few people I know that fit the profile.
Link

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Caterpillars - Queens of the Ants - by Jon

I just heard the craziest thing: caterpillars can talk ant language, or at the very least make strange ‘clicking’ sounds that ants recognize as their own. As a result of this, the caterpillar can sneak its way into the hive and crawl about. The cool part, astonishingly (as if the ‘talking ant’ wasn’t cool enough), is that it can convince the worker ants that it is their queen by mimicking queen ant sounds. In other words, if it wants food, it gets food…and protection…and whores…or tells two ants to fight to the death for its entertainment.

I am not sure what type of caterpillar, or types of caterpillars are able to pull this off, but my respect for caterpillars just quadrupled.

Ants are morons.