Weekend Edition

Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • The Hilarious Difference Between Google And Bing In One Picture - Okay, maybe not hilarious. Which one of those search engines came up with that hyperbole?

19 • How Marc Maron Picks Music For His Show - A neurotic dart board?

18 • How To Use Math To Dominate At Monopoly - Interesting read, horrible layout with a million giant photos.

17 • J. Cole: Gun-Toting Twitter Fan Investigated By Police - Illegal? Potentially. Great photo? Definitely.

16 • The Quotable Darryl Sutter (2013) - Pearls of wisdom and knowledge from the L.A. Kings coach.

15 • Drunk Alaska Man Mauled After Feeding BBQ To Black Bear - In the bear's defense, he wanted fish, not ribs (even though he had some).

14 • Paraplegic Castrated At Pennsylvania Facility / Three Charged With Enslaving Disabled Ohio Mom, Child - These states share a border. And lunatics.

13 • Gruesome Video Appears To Be Aftermath Of Michael Hastings' Car Crash - Here's your chance to watch a wrecked car burn for five minutes. And if this ain't your cup of tea, you'll want to skip #4 for sure.

12 • Researchers Have Found A Way To Cram 1,000 Terabytes Onto A Single DVD - The disc said it was quite uncomfortable.

11 • The Academy Of Motion Pictures Currently Employs An Ex-Porn Director - Naturally...how else could the MPAA continue to screw people.

10 • A Battery So Small, You'll Never Know If It's Included - There's AA and AAA now, but this means AAAAAAAAAAAA is coming.

09 • Amanda Bynes: ‘I Got My Breast Implants Removed’ - 2013's boob of the year had hers normalized, but still has metal spikes in her cheeks and is out of her goddamn mind.

08 • AMA Declares Obesity A Disease - Huge (no pun intended) mistake. Lack of willpower does not have a prescription cure.

07 • Hollywood & Highland Allegation: She Took Picture Of Transients, They Stabbed Her To Death - My suggestion to kill all the homeless is worse than rounding them up for work interment camps, but I still theink both are effective ways to deal with the issue.

06 • Dim Star Becomes 7 Times Hotter In 160 Seconds - Not a reference to the Amanda Bynes story.

05 • Starbucks Raising Prices Despite Lower Bean Cost - The reason is because the, uh...because now it's more expensive to, um...oh, fuck it. They just greedy.

04 • Plane With Wing Walker Crashes At Ohio Show; 2 Die - The announcer is just making it worse before the actual crash.

03 • Standing Man: Turkey's Eerie, Powerful New Protest Movement - Far more successful than Sitting Man and Prone Man.

02 • Snake Expert Killed By Snake While Helping People With Fear Of Snakes - Or, ironic death ironically adds to irony.

01 • British Spy Agency Is Saving Everyone's Email And Calls Too - Nice to see our colonial progenitors are keeping up with their kids.

The King Of Limbs

Lizards can detach their tails and regrow them, just as other amphibians can regenerate limbs, and now humans may soon be able to.

Researchers studying mice, discovered that stem cells beneath the nail were crucial to digit regrowth.   The base of the mice's nails house stem cells, and special proteins in the Wnt signaling pathway (which are very active in embryonic nail and limb growth in the womb) have been the focus of new testing.  "Normal" mice were able to regenerate their toe and toenails five weeks after amputation, but subjects treated with a drug to block the pathway as well as mice whose digits were amputated too far back, were unable to regrow anything.

My guess is that they will find out how far back they can regrow a part, and then massage the stems cells to work past that point.  And I beleive the natural conclusion once it's all said and done in the future is for guys to be chopping off their junk so that they can be regrown bigger...you heard it here first!

Like V-J Day, But With A Hard On

Back when Dennis Miller was still funny, he made that awesome joke about what would happen when they finally cured AIDS.  Nearly 25 years after his wry comment, it is getting closer to actually being true.

Doctors are saying a baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured.  The child, who is 2½, has been off medication for about a year, with no signs of infection.  Traces of the virus' genetic material are still present, but if they're confident enough to claim it's a victory over the disease, adding only the second mark ever into the cure column.

The baby was given a faster and stronger treatment than normal, starting with a three-drug infusion less than 30 hours after being born - this was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from the mother (whose HIV wasn't diagnosed until she was in labor).  Dr. Hannah Gay (are you fucking kidding me?), a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, believes the fast action knocked out HIV in the baby's blood before it could hideout in the body. Those reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, and though the child is "functionally cured", it may truly be more accurate to call it long-term remission.  The aggressive treatment will continue on other high-risk babies, with the intent to block this reservoir seeding and replicate this success.

The only other person considered cured of the AIDS virus underwent  a bone marrow transplant from a special donor, one of the rare people who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant, but is also a very unique case like this baby.  Perhaps the hyperbole about curing AIDS makes for better headlines and is not quite the reality, but it is progress.  Personally, they should just give people whatever the hell Magic Johnson is taking, because he's the most robust and healthy looking HIV positive person ever.

Weekend Edition

Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • McLaren P1 Claims Mantle Of World’s Ultimate Supercar - It's a pretty sweet mantle.  And fast too.

19 • Why Frank Kelly Freas Was Possibly The Greatest Science Fiction Artist Who Ever Lived - Retro sci-f, FTW.

18 •  Fraternity Raises Money For Member’s Sexual Reassignment Surgery - She's becoming a he, and frat boys are always looking for members who they can have towel-snapping shower room shenanigans.

17 • The World Needs These Star Wars And Indiana Jones Versions Of Donkey Kong - If only they were playable and not art...

16 • 13 Instances When It's Perfectly Okay To Use The C-Word - Fourteen if you count making a joke.

15 • Mind Melds Move From Science Fiction To Science In Rats - Now they can share thoughts of cheese...or product testing.

14 • UNC Student Faces Possible Expulsion For Speaking Out About Alleged Sexual Assault - Because no good deed goes unpunished.

13 • Hipster Bulldog Gains Cult Following - We live in a world where 84,000 people find a dog in costume worthy of following.  Ugh...

12 • Milwaukee Brewers Racing Italian Sausage Costume Returned To Wisconsin Bar - The town was at a standstill until that wiener casing was found.

11 •  Scientist Stumbles Onto A Cure For Color Blindness - No word on fixing color deafness though...

10 • Joe Flacco, Baltimore Ravens Reach Agreement, According To Source - And now he's the most overpaid QB in the league.  One bowl championship in a contract year and you can make more than Brady, Rodgers, Brees, and the Manning of your choice.

09 • The World's Smallest ARM Chip Is Going To Be Inside You - Soon, your pills will be more than just 1000mg of vitamin C.

08 • Ghana's Turkson Is Irish Bookmakers' Favorite For New Pope - Just think what a black Pope will do to people's minds!

07 • Wonder Woman Fan Film Shows Us What The TV Show Could Have Been - Another blow to DC and their attempt to duplicate Marvel magic, where the fans outdo the billion-dollar studios.

06 • ‘Executive Chef’ At Camden, New Jersey Charter School Makes $95,000 A Year - In a city filled with crime, there's still some white collars getting away with it too.

05 • This Black Hole Spins At (Almost) The Speed Of Light - Not bad for something that weighs more than two million times more than our sun.

04 • Miss Delaware Teen USA Resigns After Porno Surfaces / Miss Teen Delaware Lies Like A Porn Star - Yeah, she says it wasn't her and resigned anyway...and then the damning evidence came out.

03 • Damon Lindelof Hilariously Goes Off On Justin Bieber's Hat On Twitter - The hat was epic...an epic awful choice.

02 • This Insane 400,000-Piece Lego Hogwarts School Is Larger Than Harry Potter Himself - I do not know from the seven books, but Legos I get, and 400,000 of them are impressive.

01 • Florida Man Swallowed By Sinkhole Under Bedroom - Yes, the most Florida of all headlines.

Buzzkiller

Those big brains at MIT have managed to devise a "cocktail" that will get you sober a fraction of the time it took you to get blotto.  And here I thought they didn't ever go near parties...

The magic drunk bullets are enzymes fashioned after the body's normal organelles, and which flushing your system with a ton of (for lack of better term) "alcohol-eaters", clearing out alcohol molecules and putting your blood alcohol content on the right side of the decimal point. Or to hear it straight from the scientists conducting the study, it would “almost be like having millions of liver cell units inside your stomach or in your intestine, helping you to digest alcohol”.

Preliminary tests showed that drunk mice injected with the solution sobered up much quicker than those injected with a control, which means either this will one day be a boon to humans, or allow us to drink as much cheesewine as we want without fear of hangovers.

Ministry Of Sexy Walks

Researchers at the barely known University of the West of Scotland have just released a study on the relationship between a woman's gait and the history of her vaginal orgasms. I'm no scientist, but unless she walks with her legs crossed, that's the only indicator I can measure if she's orgasmed or not.

The study was published in both The Journal of Sexual Medicine of the International Society of Sexual Medicine and the Society for Study of Women's Sexual Health, both which probably have the circulation of the informational brochures of the University of the West of Scotland.  Sixteen college aged female subjects from Belgium were videotaped from a distance while walking, and later asked to complete a questionnaire. Then, the videotapes were "assessed" by two professors of sexology and two research assistants with training in "functional-sexological approach to sexology".  As we all suspected, the sexologists chosen to assess the video tapes had no prior knowledge of the orgasmic history of these women, but miraculously, they were able to discern their history of orgasms with 80% accuracy.  That's a pretty good return for guessing.

The big finding was that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation of a woman in motion was higher for "vaginally orgasmic women". One cause could be a woman's anatomical features may predispose her to experience vaginal organism.  Also, vaginally orgasmic women might feel more confident about their sexuality, which would be reflected in their stride.  I am skeptical about these results on so many levels, I don't know where to begin.  Sexology professors?  Obscure schools and publications?  Female orgasm?

While I am all for studying vagina, I'm not sure a woman's walk tells us more than how well she can move in whatever shoes she picked to wear.  If anything, we should be studying women on their backs, not their feet if we want to get further information about their vaginas. 

Weekend Edition

Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • The 'Breaking Bad' Porn Parody Now Has A Trailer - You're nothing in pop culture history until there's a porn version.

19 • Man Mauled To Death By Captive Grizzly In Montana / 2-Year-Old Boy Killed At PA. Zoo Exhibit / Man-Eating Leopard Devours 15 - Another installment of man versus the animal kingdom. And the animals won.

18 • Jermaine Jackson Petitions To Alter Famous Name - I'll save you the click...he wants to change it form Jackson to Jacksun. I hope the judge denies it on the grounds of go fuck yourself (that's a legal term, right?), but if not, exhibit A is that he named one of his sons Jermajesty.

17 • Anthony Bourdain Goes On A Dead-Hooker Twitter Tirade - Don't try and put your product placement in his show without permission.

16 • Rebecca Black Producer's Thanksgiving Video, With Nicole Westbrook - WARNING! This is goddamn awful. And it's going to get 30 million hits.

15 • Craigslist Ad For 'Sick Ass 1971 Honda CB350' - If this didn't belong to La Flama Blanca, then he at least wrote the ad.

14 • No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New Video - Native Americans don't like the cowboys and Indians motif, but it's really how bland the song is that's offensive.

13 • Man Admits Murder During Heart Attack, Survives - You don't go to heaven if you admit your sins, just jail.

12 • One Colonoscopy May Be Enough For A Lifetime / Detroit Tigers Star Pleads Guilty In New York Anti-Semitic Case - A pair of stories about assholes, and how they should be dealt with.

11 • Superman's Home Planet Krypton 'Found' / USA Luge Team To Dress As X-O Manowar For 2014 Olympics - Crossover by comics into real life can be interesting, but these are a little unnecessary.

10 • McDonald's Flies American Flag Upside Down At Half-Mast In Follansbee, West Virginia - Was it a protest after the election, a call for help, or a flag malfunction? Or, because it's West Virginia just Wednesday?

09 • Voters In Washington And Colorado Legalize Recreational Marijuana - In other news, populations on adjoining states decrease as mass exodus begins to Washington and Colorado.

08 • 37 Bond Girls Then And Now - Spoiler alert! Most of them are better then than now.

07 • Woman Who Drove On Sidewalk Must Wear 'Idiot' Sign - I like creative punishments, especially when they're also honest.

06 • Ronda Rousey Becomes The First Woman In The UFC - Well, at least, the first one who'll kick your ass or knock you out. They still have those chippies in bikinis between rounds.

05 • So Long, And Thanks For All The WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS - Rob Bricken leaves his editor's spot at the great Topless Robot for io9...yes, I am a geek, and you should be too by checking out both sites.

04 • How Apple Avoids Paying Billions in Taxes - They ain't making record breaking profits just from selling a lot of gadgets. Because sometimes it also pays not to think differently.

03 • Scientists Make Light Travel Infinitely Fast - When light speed got a little faster.

02 • New York Man Crushed By Giant Crucifix Has Leg Amputated - Man frequently prays at church for wife. Man believes crucifix cures his wife of cancer. Crucifix decides debt needs to be repaid.

01 • Dead Pig In Romney Shirt Found At Manhattan Beach GOP Headquarters - After all months and months of election coverage in the media, this is the way I want the story it end.

You And Your Genome

To Err Is Most Definitely Human

They're jamming on drums at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.  Of course they are.

Their latest test subject listens to a metronome through headphones, and plays in time for about five minutes.  Except he's a little ahead or behind the metronome by 10 to 20 milliseconds, and that's what these physicists are literally counting on.  Scientists want to know if these errors random, or able to be charted and calculated with a mathematical law? And if they kick the drummer out of the band, whose van can they use to get to gigs...

When the drummer’s playing errors were correlated across long timescales, the given beat depended not just on the timing of the previous beat,sometimes on beats that occurred minutes before. “You can have these trends, for example, where the drummer plays ahead of the beat for 30 consecutive beats, while half a minute earlier, he tended to play slightly behind the metronome clicks, " said the quite Germanic named Holger Hennig.  The patterns of fluctuations are likely to be repeated, and can be found in both short and long pattern lengths, or as he described, "As a fractal — a self-similar structure.”

Using audio software to "humanize” computer-generated music by introducing these bio-rhythmic deviations, they surveyed listeners with both a “random-error” method and a “long-range-correlated-error” method (where the timing of the beats was related). 79% said the correlated-error version “sounded more precise,” and 64% of participants preferred it to the random-error version.  I may also be a drummer, but that's 143%...scientists, tell us what it means!

"There are different clocks in the brain,” Hennig explained, “clocks on different timescales, like circadian clocks on a 24-hour timescale. However, for the millisecond regime it is totally unknown which neuronal network allows the human to be so precise.” So these deviations in rhythm patterns are both intrinsic and preferred? Apparently so, and the same long-range correlations discovered in musical rhythm have been found in the fluctuation of human brainwaves and in heart rates during sleep.  Scientists are continuing to look at the neurological  circumstances that create and bio-rhythmic patterns to further understand them.

Fire ReDARPAtant

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) does all kinds of weird science and develops what becomes the next-generation weapons and technology of our armed forces and government.  And some other really random stuff.

Recently, DARPA decided they want to be able to extinguish fires using physics instead of chemicals, y'know, like you want to, since using chemicals is far riskier than using fire’s own properties against it. So how did they achieve this?  By surrounding the flame with speakers!  How it works is that the sound increases the air speed, which thins out the atmosphere and helps disrupt combustion. It also effects the fuel, disrupting the surface and driving down the overall temperature. Here's a video of how it works.

Oddly, this isn’t the first time DARPA has used physics to put out fire. They’ve also cooked up an ionic wind out of an electric field, but I'm sure that came out of trying to make a better hairdryer.

Weekend Edition

Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • Boyfriend Assaults Girlfriend With Steak Sauce Over Fifty Shades Of Grey - He still got the Wor(ce)st(ershire) of it.

19 • Raccoons Chase, Attack Woman Who Had Just Finished Jogging In Park / Tigers Kill Man Who Scaled Fence At Danish Zoo - It's no different this week...animals are pissed off at humans.

18 • Graphene Miracle #5,347: It Can Repair Itself Entirely Unassisted - Higgs-Boson?  Graphene is the God particle.

17 • Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Of His Own Family In Iraq / Explosive Fireworks Horrifically Severed And Blew Off A Paraplegic's Leg - Two perfect examples of exactly how bad things can go when you shouldn't be playing with explosives.

16 • Microsoft, NBC Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture - No word on who gets custody of Rachel Maddow.

15 • Ohio Diner Owner Dies Hours After Obama Visit / Obama Staffer Dies After Collapsing At Campaign’s Chicago HQ - Our president...the angel of death?

14 • Autistic Man Survives 3-Week Ordeal In Utah Desert - A happy ending to the story, even  though his autism was what got him into trouble.

13 • Nigerian Tanker Explosion, At Least 95 Killed After Crash As People Rush For ‘Free Fuel’ - It's usually a sign that signals a promotion for free gas, not a crash and gallons of it spilling out.

12 • San Bernardino Third California City To Seek Bankruptcy - If only they sold all that meth, they'd be in the black.

11 • 13-Minute Dark Knight Rises Featurette Hits The Movie's Major Characters And Themes / DC Is Just @#$%ing Gonna Give Up On Movies Until 2015 - Get hyped for now!  Because after Batman and Superman, DC has to learn how to make comic characters into film properties.

10 • Flying Robot Makes 3D Map Of Building's Interior - Just like those bots in Prometheus, now with 100% less Engineer dicks.

09 • Immigrants With ‘Gang Tattoos’ Denied U.S. Visas - The easiest way to keep the bad elements out of the country is if they make it obvious.

08 • Rejoice, For Edifi, The First Christian Tablet Is Here! - That damn headline takes all the sarcasm out of my comments on it.

07 • Blind Contestant Completes In Miss Florida - Yet she'll never see how silly pageants are.

06 • Found: Multiple People Combined Into Single Mummies - Who knew that Dr. Frankenstein was over 3,000 years old?

05 • ESPN The Magazine’s 2012 Body Issue Will Make You Appreciate The Athletic Female Form / Ronda Rousey Would 'Beat The Crap Out Of Kim Kardashian' Because Her Fame Came From A Sex Tape - I support hot naked women athletes...especially the ones who want to kick the piss out of a Kardashian.

04 • Scientists Create Molecule To Make Teeth Cavityproof - Great news!  Now all we need is a company to sell it...

03 • Man Dies In Rollover Crash After Running Over Wife In SUV - There's one story every week that makes me smile at it's perfection, and this is it.

02 • Twitter Divides In Response To Daniel Tosh's Rape Joke - Yeah, I'll pick a side and back Team Tosh.  Comedy isn't pretty, but it's still comedy.  And let's keep everything in context.

01 • Auditors Say Billions Likely Wasted In Iraq Work - Was anybody surprised at this?  It's such predictable news that I can't switch from disappointment at being cynically correct to anger over it.

Playing (At) Dead And Surviving

Opossums are terrifying little monsters, but they may actually have some use.

The American opossum produces a protein called Lethal Toxin-Neutralizing Factor (LTNF), and that pretty much describes what it does.  The bastards are all-but immune to the venom of poisonous snakes, but it gets better. They're also immune to poisons from snakes on other continents that they have not even been previously exposed to!  Still not impressed?  Scientists injected mice with the LTNF protein and subjected the rodents to venom from a slew of deadly creatures - Thailand cobras, Australian taipans, Brazilian rattlesnakes, scorpions and honeybees.  And they lived!

Just to go for broke, they also exposed the mice to lethal poisons, including ricin and botulinum toxin. Once again, the LTNF protein was able to diffuse the poison, and left the test subjects unharmed.  You can read all about it here, and the kicker is that this is all circa 1999.  Who knows what mad science has been going on in the last 13 years!

Weekend Edition

Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • Karate Instills Confidence In Special Needs Kids - Yeah, that's what they need.  Not how to dress themselves or how to use the bathroom solo, but martial arts.

19 • Former Astronaut Poindexter Dies In Ski Jet Accident / Teen Dies Playing Russian Roulette - Two literal rocket scientists, foolishly killed.

18 • Steve Nash To The LA Kings - Finally, a reverse hockey / basketball mistake!

17 • Andy Griffith Dies At 86 - Mayberry him in peace.

16 • Couple Tries For Year Of Daily Disneyland Visits - It helps to have one half of your duo unemployed to pull it off.  Don't bother to look for a job...that's really Fantasyland.

15 • Anderson Cooper Claims To Be “Gay” - World claims to be surprised.

14 • Russia Fears New Epidemic Of Synthetic Marijuana / Mexico Recounts Votes From Over Half Of Polling Booths - Aside from the state of Florida, our country has no weird weed or voter fraud.

13 • Man, 30, Sentenced To 65 Years To Life For Raping Developmentally Disabled Girl, 7 - I want to say something about if she'd known karate, but...

12 • Cops Mistaken For Male Strippers At Bachelorette Party - These are the kinds of confusing that happen now thanks to Magic Mike.

11 • The Incredibly True Story Of Before Before Watchmen - Comic book "behind the scenes"?  Yes, please!

10 • Amputee Pistorius Selected For Olympics In 4x400 / Australia Under Fire For Sleeping Pill Ban - Let's see what has a bigger impact once the games start; the legless runner, or that athletes can't take get a little help to get some rest.

09 • Singer Frank Ocean Reveals First Love Was A Man - Suddenly, a lot of people really took to heart those R&B lyrics.

08 • Yasser Arafat's Body To Be Exhumed - They say it's to check if polonium poison had to do with the illness leading to his death, but I'm hoping it's to piss on his corpse.

07 • Romney's Wife Says Woman Being Eyed For Ticket - That worked so well the last time for the GOP.  This is nothing but a stunt for publicity.

06 • William Lynch Found Not Guilty in Beating Of Priest He Said Sexually Abused Him - Amen to true justice.

05 • McSweeney’s FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion Of Your Thesis Defense - Now I'm glad I didn't go to grad school.  I'm like Indiana Jones with serpents.

04 • Lineswoman Hit In The Face By 118 mph Serve - For a few seconds, tennis got interesting. 

03 • Mammoth Lakes, Famous California Ski Town, Files For Bankruptcy - Good thing I didn't get that season pass.  Talk about hard to get a refund...

02 • Eastbound & Down Renewed For A Fourth Season - It had a perfect ending in the series finale, but a bonus season is fine by me. 

01 • Proof Of 'God Particle' Found - The material at the source of creation and the universe?  Could be the top story on the list...

Packin'

It's better to have a gun and not need one, then to need one and not have one...or think you do.

A study conducted a Notre Dame University found that when you are holding a gun, you're more likely to think others are holding them too.  Researchers showed participants partially obstructed images of people and asked them to say whether the person was holding a neutral object (a phone or soda can for example) while they were holding either a gun or a soft foam ball.  Regardless of the image shown, like people in snow masks or a broad range of races, those who themselves were holding a gun consistently over-estimated the incidence of guns being held in the images. Scientist quote!  

"Beliefs, expectations and emotions can all influence an observer's ability to detect and to categorize objects as guns. Now we know that a person's ability to act in certain ways can bias their recognition of objects as well, and in dramatic ways. It seems that people have a hard time separating their thoughts about what they perceive and their thoughts about how they can or should act."

I guess that's why cops seem to be a little twitchy...

Magnetofluids (Part 3)

Some Kim Pimmel for ya.

Man Without A Heart

Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier are doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, though their work may require them to change the name.

The short film Heart Stop Beating by Jeremiah Zagar shows you can live without a heart or a pulse.  The turbine-like device implanted in Craig Lewis does not beat like a heart, but rather provides a continuous flow like a garden hose.  Lewis was a 55-year-old, dying from amyloidosis -  build-up of abnormal proteins. The proteins clog the organs so much that they stop working, but after the operation, his replacement, "heart" machine keeps blood flowing through his body.

If you put a stethoscope to his chest, no heartbeat or pulse can be heard - there's just a humming sound.  "By all criteria that we conventionally use to analyze patients”, Doctor Cohn said, "he is dead". Yet even without the telltale signs of regular human physiology, there is life.

Superhydrophobic

By The Power Of Thor(ium)

Science vs. Delirium

Simon Bent mixes LSD and PhDs.

Airquakes

If the ground moves, better check the sky.

Geologists have set up monitoring stations in earthquake zones connected to satellites registering upper atmosphere and ionosphere data during an earthquake, and are noticing a correlation.

In the days before the March 11th Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the total electron content of the ionosphere increased dramatically over the epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake. At the same time, satellite observations showed an increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, peaking in the hours before the quake. Non-scientist translation: the atmosphere was heating up.

The phenomenon would also lend credence to the observations of bright orange sunsets or dense air before earthquakes - what people sometimes call "earthquake weather"