Saturday linkpharm (it’s science!):
- 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body from Men’s Health [via]
- Penguin webcam and shark webcam, courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium [via]
- Speaking of sharks, Jacques Cousteau’s grandson’s shark-shaped submarine:
Cousteau calls the sub Troy, in reference to the mythical Trojan horse statue, in which Greek soldiers were spirited into the fortress kingdom of Troy.
The idea for the sub, though, came from a slightly more prosaic source.
Troy was inspired by Tintin, a Belgian comic book character. On the cover of the book Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge (published in English as Red Rackham’s Treasure), Tintin and his dog are pictured in a metal, shark-shaped submarine. [via]
- We’ll pause for the giggling now: New rings and moons around Uranus [via]
- The Perfect Nap? — my very limited experience trying this does suggest the very short “nano-nap” is the way to go. [via]
- The SidewaysBike [via]
- Researchers discover largest prime number [via]
- 1945 Popular Science article about silicone rubber, including silly putty* [via]
- The coelcanth in danger? [via]
- Nintendo’s holodeck prototype (video) — hard to judge now, but a neat indication of things to come [via]
- All the words in the English language that be spelled using chemical symbols [via]
- Early man hunted by birds? [via]
And just in case you wondered what 250 pounds of Silly Putty looked like all together…