Fractal Sauce

The chefs at Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, Spain have created the nerdiest dessert. Fractal sauce is a mixture of a honey base and a reactor that create an edible fractal on your plate. The guy that will make this for me will certainly win my heart and my brain!

Fragile

I'm so thrilled to have just found out that Midge Ure - the mastermind behind Ultravox, will be releasing his new solo album Fragile in July. I have no doubts that this album will be another emotional explosion that has become my expectation from this inimitable Scotsman! 

I Have Spread My Dreams Under Your Feet

Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

by

W.B. Yeats

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,  

Enwrought with golden and silver light,  

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths  

Of night and light and the half light,  

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;  

I have spread my dreams under your feet;  

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.  

Cow Belch

Have you ever wondered what happens to the hundreds of gallons of methane gas produced each day by cows and other grazing animals? You'd think there would be herds of farm-youth with lighters standing-by to activate enormous pyrotechnics at the cows' expense, right?

Thanks to yet another hilariously educational book by Mary Roach, I've learned the cows don't belch (or fart for that matter). They actually reroute their internal tubing to move the very flammable gas from their rumens to their lungs where it is mixed in with air to be diluted to nonflammable levels, and then they "quietly" breathe it out. That is especially important since the sound that amount of gas released in any other "pressurized" way would've been an open invitation to their predators giving away their exact location.

Microbot Swarms

Inspired by colonies of worker ants, SRI International built magnetically actuated micro-robots to work in parallel in micro-factories to build electronic circuit board. The robots are built from low cost materials and their ability to work together reduces time and cost of the products they build.

Electric Astronauts

Johnny Jones does it again! Electric Astronauts is another manifestation of the beautiful inner world of this huscular and impassioned man. Thank you Johnny for generously sharing your art for no charge to listen. You are the epitome of awesomenessness!

Aparājayah

My learning today came from a fellow yogi at the Bikram studio I practice regularly.

Siddhis are spiritual, magical, supranormal, paranormal, or supernatural powers acquired through sadhana (spiritual practices), such as meditation and yoga. The word itself is a Sanskrit noun which can be translated as "perfection", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success".

There are eight primary siddhis:

• Aṇimā: reducing one's body even to the size of an atom
• Mahima: expanding one's body to an infinitely large size
• Garima: becoming infinitely heavy
• Laghima: becoming almost weightless
• Prāpti: having unrestricted access to all places
• Prākāmya: realizing whatever one desires
• Iṣṭva: possessing absolute lordship
• Vaśtva: the power to subjugate all

And five siddhis of yoga and meditation are:

• tri-kāla-jñatvam: knowing the past, present and future
• advandvam: tolerance of heat, cold and other dualities
• para citta ādi abhijñatā: knowing the minds of others and so on
• agni arka ambu viṣa ādīnām pratiṣṭambhaḥ: checking the influence of fire, sun, water, poison, and so on
• aparājayah: remaining unconquered by others