Fellow freelance science writer Russ Swan emailed to bring a significant figure to my attention. He’s just been reading the #1 New York Times bestseller Book of Useless Information and in it learns that China produces 278,564,356,980 eggs per year. Not only is that a lot of chickens, but that’s a lot of omelettes, scrambled [...]

Is advancing multimedia entertainment technology set to ruin the movie theater industry, do movie goers face extinction? Or, is it just this generation’s equivalent of the disruptive technologies that were first television and then the VCR, which led to renewed interest in going to the movies?
Apparently, home movie entertainment sales are on the increase. If [...]

NEWSFLASH – Sig Figs’ partner site – Sciencebase.com – is listed among the founding partners in the Alltop Science section right above NYT Science and next to Sciencefriday. You can find the science section itself under the “GEEKERY” tag on the homepage.
Alltop, this week, officially launched as a news aggregation site with a difference. Positioning [...]

Regular readers may recall a short “vanity” item I posted recently entitled David Bradley Killer, Lover, Player, Puller in which I pointed you to the seemingly thousands of other people on this planet called David Bradley. There are actors, computer engineers (Ctrl-Alt-Del guy), various professors, media moguls, artists, and photographers, a murderer and even a [...]

New research shows how an online learning community at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, can improve creativity and boost learning using virtual tools with both newbies and experts working together.
“Within such a community the participants are exposed to a number of requisite elements designed to support the exploration of their own learning process and the [...]