The simplest explanation is that the sculpture is made up of triangular plasma computer displays. The tricky part is the set of algorithms that constructs the patterns and distributes the pixels.

Just a couple of points:

Which is the greater sin? Faking the data, or peddling the sensational conclusions, without any journalistic scrutiny or oversight, merely for the sake of garnering readers and ratings? The politics of scientific funding today makes it nearly impossible for otherwise honest and well-intentioned scientists to avoid…

I don't think there is room in my tiny brain for info like who is married to The Famous Person I Know Because They Do Something In Life I Care About. And to be honest, I know who Moby is mostly by accident...

The simple act of flying at high altitudes exposes passengers to extra radiation, but that seems to get forgotten. Because Earth's atmosphere shields us from cosmic radiation—the denser the atmosphere, the greater the protection—flying in the upper, thinner portion of the atmosphere increases your radiation exposure.…

I only know who Neil Gaiman and Moby are. More proof that I am a nerd with zero hipster cool street cred.

Hey, whatever helps people cope in a world they barely understand is fine with me, so long as they don't expect me to go along for the ride.

I love how this show has managed to get everyone so emotionally invested in the characters and what is going on with them. And I pretty much agree with everything said here, in particular:

I find it interesting that they can skirt all kinds of IP barriers for "Iron Man" by calling it a parody, but they can't get away with using the actual AC/DC "Highway to Hell" riff, so they have to make up a very similar one instead.

I already have a Capt. Hammer tee! I'm so awesome.

Well, I thought Drag Me To Hell was tedious. It relied too much on the kerrang and jack-in-the-box pops for its so-called scares—in fact, I'd say the movie only delivered startles and no real scares—and any time the movie actually began to get a little scary, Raimi undermined the tension with his lame brand of humor.…

It is sad to see how the decline of magazine sales has resulted in dramatically lower word counts per issue over time.

I've never seen Metropolis, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the original 1950s Thing, or Zardoz.

How would a nuclear detonation create a society of people unable to have sex? Unable to produce offspring, perhaps, but unable to perform the act? Color me puzzled.

Paper books are great because I can lend or give them to friends when I am done reading them. And they can do the same. No special technology required. No special DRM or "sharing rights" involved. Plus I've never had to recharge a book or worry about the accessibility of electrical outlets.

Any episode that features Anna is a winner as far as I'm concerned. I guess you could call me a Jeremy/Anna 'shipper. I just hope they don't reveal Anna to be an evil spirit in disguise.

I was under the impression that the non-ionizing aspect was a key factor here. All of the sources of radiation that present the kinds of cancer risks we need to be concerned about are ionizing. The RADs of ionizing radiation you receive from eating bananas or sleeping next to your spouse are more dangerous than the…

Not quite.

Lazers? Heh. Turbolaser batteries on an Imperial Star Destroyer would vaporize any Trek vessel with a single volley. After all, the high-megaton and gigaton-class missile weapons of a light, single-man patrol craft like Slave-1 could effortlessly destroy any Federation warship with a direct hit, to say nothing of the…

You might want to visit www.stardestroyer.net and read the Technology and Tactics sections carefully. Even though the information is expressed in the stylistic form of Imperial propaganda, it is nevertheless based on fairly rigorous research.