Month: August 2013

The Lycurgus Cup

this is absolutely amazing.

the Lycurgus Cup is unique. The artisanship this required boggles the mind. The glass makers could not have added such minute amounts of gold and silver just to the glass the cup was going to made out of. These particles are 70 nanometers wide. You can’t even see them with an optical microscope, never mind the human eyeball; you need a transmission electron microscope at least. Experts believe the craftsmen added the minimum possible of the metals and then diluted the glass-melt with more and more glass until they had the proportion right.

What is a clean strike?

here we go again: “clean” strikes followed by a quagmire. we have become exceedingly good at it

Missile strikes against Syria could be launched “as early as Thursday” as the White House intensified efforts toward an international response to the suspected use of chemical weapons.

More antivaxxer idiocy

why can’t they speak out against things where the damage will be limited to themselves? perhaps speaking out against seat belts?

An outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant — and it’s expected to grow.

Good job you fucking dummies.

#dummies #JennyMcCarthy #Texas #dummies #GetGovernmentOutOfMyRightToDieFromPreventableDisease #ThanksObama

Spook blogging

aww, so cute, damage control mode:

Created at the direction of the President of the United States, IC ON THE RECORD provides immediate, ongoing and direct access to factual information related to the lawful foreign surveillance activities carried out by the US Intelligence Community.

sure, whatever you say.