Paul Saffo says: "Here is the tale of how an Air Force radar operator (Charles Schisler) detected the existence of Pulsars in 1964, years before their discovery by scientists in… Read the rest of the article: How the Air Force (almost) discovered Pulsars

Las month, student Sarah Pickin found a piece of "Neolithic chewing gum" on an archaeological dig in Oulu, Finland. The gum, a hunk of birch bark, was likely chewed 5,000… Read the rest of the article: Stone age chewing gum

Here's Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in an early 1980s TV commercial for the Datsun 280-ZX. Link (via Wired Epicenter)

Marc Fest of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation writes: It's time to enter this year's Knight News Challenge, which awards big money for innovative ideas using digital… Read the rest of the article: Digital community journalism contest

These mutant frogs with gold skin and red eyes were reportedly found by school children in Shimanto, Japan. They're now on display at the Shimanto River Gakuyukan science center. Some… Read the rest of the article: Gold mutant frogs

On Saturday, more than 600 people posed nude on the Aletsch Glacier near Bettmeralp, Switzerland, for a photo by my old friend Spencer Tunick. The shoot was a collaboration between… Read the rest of the article: Hundreds naked on glacier

A Berlin teenager, preparing to have sex for the first time, lit candles to set the mood. But she and her boyfriend were, well, interrupted mid-act when the candles caused… Read the rest of the article: Virgin's house burns during "first time"

The Charlie Rose show posted thousands of hours of vintage interviews including this great one from 1997 with Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Johnny from Drawn! searched the archives and found… Read the rest of the article: Snoopy creator Charles Schulz interviewed by Charlie Rose

THe Charles Fort Institute is asking for nominations to establish the Seven Fortean Wonders of the World. As regular BB readers know, Charles Fort was a pioneering researcher into anomalous… Read the rest of the article: Vote for the Seven Fortean Wonders of the World

Earlier this year, I posted about Keepon, a supercute little robot that gyrates its silicone body in time to music. Inventors Marek Michalowski of Carnegie Mellon University and Hideki Kozima… Read the rest of the article: Dancing robot in Spoon video

My friend Chris Noessel found this fantastic piece of "tupperware" at a $1 store in San Francisco's Mission District. It's very plain except for the little flower motif and the… Read the rest of the article: Nice Design "tupperware"

Last year, my wife and I went to the second annual Tree Show group show at San Fracnisco's Giant Robot boutique/gallery. We fell in love with Susie Ghahremani's tiny matchbox-size… Read the rest of the article: Susie Ghahremani's tiny paintings

On Flickr, a scan of a an Apple-1 print ad from July 1976. (Click the image for the entire ad.) From the description: A fast (1 kilobaud) cassette interface is… Read the rest of the article: Apple-1 print ad

When implanted in the eye, mini-telescopes like this one could help aging individuals with macular degeneration, a disorder of the retina affecting more than 1.75 million people in the United… Read the rest of the article: Mini-telescope eye implant

Researchers at the International Space University (ISU) in France propose that NASA's planned lunar base should also include a "biological and historical archive" of human civilization. The idea is that… Read the rest of the article: Lunar "ark" proposed

Ulysse Nardin's Tellurium J. Kepler watch rotates the Earth as it would be seen above the North Pole. The timepiece was named in honor of Johannes Kepler, a 17th century… Read the rest of the article: Kepler $100k wristwatch

My old pal and seasoned music critic Mike Breen wrote a thoughtful, nostalgic, and bummer of a blog post about Perry Farrell, currently on tour with his new project Satellite… Read the rest of the article: Perry Farrell… yawn?

Researchers have shrunk Sharper Image's bestselling Ionic Breeze fan down to the microscale. Well, kinda. Purdue University engineers developed a tiny "ionic wind engine" to help cool computer chips. As… Read the rest of the article: Ionic Breeze for microchips

Astronomers have captured the first image of a comet-like tail behind a star. The star, Mira, is named for the Latin word meaning "wonderful." The tail is 20,000 times the… Read the rest of the article: Star with comet's tail

Jonathan Lee Riches, a prison inmate in South Carolina, filed a "$63,000,000,000 billion dollar" lawsuit against NFL quarterback Michael Vick, alleging that Vick stole Riches's pit bulls, sold them on… Read the rest of the article: Kooky lawsuit against NFL quarterback: "$63,000,000,000 Billion"