Offtopic again: omnidirectional treadmill for virtual environments

Wow this thing sounds pretty cool. Applications in games, rehab, studying human locomotion and more. Today seems to be popular science day for me for some reason.

Offtopic: creating lightning bolts?

Whoa. Shooting clouds with lasers. Wtf are these scientists doing? It sounds like fun. Like a 1950’s comic book with super-villains who can control the weather with technology in their costumes and jetpacks. They say the practical use could be to protect sensitive sites or equipment. Uh-huh. Yeah, sure. They are really just thinking of [...]

Offtopic: stock market swings caused by hormones

This article talks about a study of the effects of testosterone and cortisol on stock trader behavior. An excerpt:
But which is the cause and which is the effect? A further analysis showed that traders who started their days with elevated testosterone made more money than those who didn’t. One trader went on a six-day winning [...]

Great review of Le Shamrock

I’m not sure what this guy’s blog is about (he seems to post random pictures of his cat and I just don’t like that silly lolcats thing), but his review of Le Shamrock reads like a professionally written, slightly dramatized, magazine article:
Super Heroes vs. Ninjas review of Cung Le vs. Frank Shamrock
I’m not that into [...]