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Camel urine…and its use in medicine

What are the pros and cons of using camel urine as a medicament? The question was recently tackled in the journal Dirasat – a peer-reviewed research journal published by the Deanship of Academic Research, University of Jordan. In Vol 37, No 1, 2010, authors Mohammad A. Al-Natshah, and Isma’eel M. Al-Braishi, examine the history and…

io9 Improbable Research - Martin Gardiner Mar 5 '11

Scenes from a Star Trek convention from almost 40 years ago

Here’s a delightfully retro montage of footage from a 1973 Star Trek convention in New York. Check out the awesome costumes (that wouldn’t totally be out of place in the glam rock days of the 1970s) and George Takei’s rad haircut. [Via CBM]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5 '11

The Guild’s most roguish member gets ready for his own comic book close-up

With Felicia Day dropping by Emerald City Comicon this weekend, Dark Horse Comics has given us a first look at the cover art for the upcoming one-shot The Guild: Bladezz, starring the Knights of Good’s rapscalliony rogue, the model Finn Smulders. Here’s the solicitation: The Guild: Bladezz One-shot Writers: Felicia Day and Sean Becker Artist:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5 '11

Watch a dizzying video of the Discovery’s launch from the perspective of its rockets

We’ve already seen last month’s launch of the Discovery from the perspective of an airplane and a high-atmosphere balloon. Now check out this awe-inspiring 30-minute video captured from Discovery’s twin solid rocket boosters. The video begins on the ground, captures some gorgeous footage of the Earth’s surface, and then opens its parachutes for splashdown. It’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5 '11

Jewelers Found Guilty of Mimicking a Heist from the Movie Snatch

Remember the opening scene of Snatch? The robbery with men dressed up as Hasidic Jews? Some guys mimicked that in real life—and got caught. Apparently New York Jewelers Atul Shah and Mahaveer Kankariya were struggling with such huge debts that they only saw one solution: To hire a bunch of thugs, stage a robbery, and…

Movies Rosa Golijan Mar 5 '11

Judge: Give Sony the IP Addresses of Anyone Who Visited Hacker Geohot’s Website

I’ve got bad news for those who have checked out the website of my favorite hacker-turned-rapper, George “Geohot” Hotz, at any point between January 2009 and now: Sony has been granted the right to acquire your IP addresses. Bluehost, the company who maintains Hotz’s website, doesn’t have much choice in the whole matter, of course:…

Privacy & Security Rosa Golijan Mar 5 '11

Anyone Who Pays $5000 for This Crystal Video Ball Deserves a Lifetime of Financial Troubles

Online retailer Japan Trend Shop describes this $4909 crystal ball, which displays video from an analog source, as visually stunning. I describe it as objectively tacky (not to mention overpriced for something I’m pretty sure is made of plastic). And could they have picked worse stock photos to superimpose in this thing? I think not.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 5 '11

Vintage Lois Lane Comics Reveal She Was Manipulative & Marriage-Obsessed

A friend who knows I love this kind of stuff gave me four old issues of Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane, a DC Comics title published between 1958 and 1974. These relics of a time gone by are hilariously terrible! I’d always thought of Lois as the practical, hard-nosed reporter, but I guess that was…

io9 Jezebel Mar 4 '11

Thailand Tried to Buy F-16s with 80,000 Tons of Frozen Chicken. And the US Helped.

So what do you do when you’re a sovereign government that’s short on fighter jets and cash, but flush with frozen chicken? Call up Lockheed Martin! According to a WikiLeaked cable, the US State Department helped broker such a deal between the Thais and Lockheed Martin. It almost happened, were it not for a coup…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 4 '11

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Force Field Fail

Click to viewIt’s not easy being a stormtrooper, especially when your equipment malfunctions. Then again, if a force field goes down, but was invisible in the first place, does it really make a difference? The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found over at Splitsider, including the Tron Lebowski…

Tech News Splitsider Mar 4 '11

Student’s CPU Patent Could Save Your Mobile Battery’s Ass in the Future

Sometimes your computer’s CPU uses a lot of electricity—like when you’re encoding an HD video, or playing a game. Sometimes it doesn’t use much, like when you’re writing a college essay on some dead guy or browsing Craigslist. Modern processors are able to down-shift when less power is needed—but it’s slow. Faster throttling would mean…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 4 '11

Don’t Wanna Memorize Numbers? Call Someone’s Twitter Handle Instead

I have no idea what my mom’s cell phone number is. I don’t think I’ve ever known the phone number of a girlfriend. Why would I? You probably don’t either! Contact lists killed them. But web service Go800 wants to skip the whole number thing entirely, letting you hit people via their Twitter handle to…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 4 '11

Android Gets a Nintendo 64 Emulator with N64oid

N64oid, a Nintendo 64 emulator, will let you indulge your nostalgia wherever you go. Though other video game emulators for Android devices exist, nothing else can bring you this kind of 64-bit gaming goodness. $6. [Android Market]

Tech News Davey Alba Mar 4 '11

What Is This?

Could it be a heat map representation of some strange metropolis? Maybe it’s a new breakthrough in spectral analysis techniques? Or perhaps it’s just a severely decomposed scanwich. Unfortunately, all of those guesses are wrong. You’re looking at the brainscan of a fruit fly, which has been injected with fluorescent proteins to trace out and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4 '11

Motorola Atrix vs LG Optimus 2X: Dual-Core Benchmark Battle Go!

The Motorola Atrix 4G and the LG Optimus 2X both feature the same Tegra 2 Chipset that uses the same 1.2 Ghz, dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, the same GeForce ULP GPU and the same version of Android (2.2.1). Yet, when benchmarked, the Optimus 2X outgunned the Atrix in nearly every test (the Galaxy S…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4 '11

The Next Wave Of Smart Drugs

How will tomorrow’s pharmaceuticals boost your brainpower? A Drug That Can Make Your Old Memories Like New There are drugs that help you remember what you learn, and ones that erase your memory. But until now, there have no substances with the power to enhance and strengthen old memories hovering on the brink of being…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Mar 4 '11

The Flaming Lips’ Latest Songs Are Coming Out on the Revolutionary Candy Skull Format

Bored with CDs and things of the like, the psych-rock weirdos Flaming Lips want to deliver the physical version of their album in an all new format: gummy candy skulls. And it only requires your mouth and a laptop! How does one listen, you ask? First you, eat the life-size candy skull. Then you eat…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4 '11

How did humans really evolve?

Almost two million years ago, a band of brave explorers left their families behind in their warm, tropical home and sought refuge in northern lands. Armed with sharp stone tools and their wits, they followed the coast as far north as they could, then began to veer east, settling on the sunny, fertile shores of…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 4 '11

Green Technology Pundit Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tells Electric Car Makers to DO BETTER

Click to viewWhen he’s not driving around in circles, NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. apparently likes to opine on the state of electric cars and green technology. CNS news tracked down Earnhardt to ask him what he thought of electric cars, specificially the Chevy Volt. Here’s what he said: “I think that the Chevy Volt’s…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4 '11

SSD TRIM Support Makes an Early OS X Appearance on new MacBook Pros

We previously thought that OS X wouldn’t see TRIM support until Lion came out later this year. But as it turns out, Apple slipped it in to the 10.6.6 build currently shipping with new Macbook Pros. [Apple Insider]

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4 '11

Camel urine…and its use in medicine

Scenes from a Star Trek convention from almost 40 years ago

The Guild’s most roguish member gets ready for his own comic book close-up

Watch a dizzying video of the Discovery’s launch from the perspective of its rockets

Jewelers Found Guilty of Mimicking a Heist from the Movie Snatch

Judge: Give Sony the IP Addresses of Anyone Who Visited Hacker Geohot’s Website

Anyone Who Pays $5000 for This Crystal Video Ball Deserves a Lifetime of Financial Troubles

Vintage Lois Lane Comics Reveal She Was Manipulative & Marriage-Obsessed

Thailand Tried to Buy F-16s with 80,000 Tons of Frozen Chicken. And the US Helped.

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Force Field Fail

Student’s CPU Patent Could Save Your Mobile Battery’s Ass in the Future

Don’t Wanna Memorize Numbers? Call Someone’s Twitter Handle Instead

Android Gets a Nintendo 64 Emulator with N64oid

What Is This?

Motorola Atrix vs LG Optimus 2X: Dual-Core Benchmark Battle Go!

The Next Wave Of Smart Drugs

The Flaming Lips’ Latest Songs Are Coming Out on the Revolutionary Candy Skull Format

How did humans really evolve?

Green Technology Pundit Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tells Electric Car Makers to DO BETTER

SSD TRIM Support Makes an Early OS X Appearance on new MacBook Pros

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