From the Martyzone

I figure that anyone who actually reads this blog on a regular basis is getting tired of seeing the same old post I made about a moth ago. Since then I took a trip to Hawaii to visit friends, and then went and met Kenji in Seattle where we attended his cousin's wedding. I have all kinds of photos, but I haven't had all kinds of time to post any of them yet. And since my friend Tiffany is going to pick me up in about an hour to go to a dance, I still don't have time to post them now.

But I haven't done a Martyzone posting in a while, and that's easy! This week, he closed his newsletter with this very pressing question:

Why does inhaling helium make you sound like a cartoon?

From the Martyzone: Who's on First Zone

I haven't even read the rest of the newsletter yet, but I got a kick out of this:

After having dug to a depth of 1,000 meters last year, Korean scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,500 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network all those centuries ago.

Not to be outdone. Chinese scientists dug to a depth of 2,000 meters and shortly after headlines in Chinese newspapers read: "Chinese archeologists have found traces of 3,000-year-old fiber-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the Koreans."

One week later, Portuguese newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 3,000 meters in a Lisbon marketplace, scientists had found absolutely nothing. They therefore concluded, that 4,500 years ago, the Portuguese were already using wireless technology."

From the Martyzone: Self-medicating sheep

My favorite from this week's newsletter from Marty Plotnick:

Self-medicating sheep shake off the 'stupid' label

Maybe in another few centuries sheep will be starting their own pharma companies. ;)

From the Martyzone

This week's favorite link in Marty Plotnick's newsletter is "Laser makes solid 'disappear'":

http://abc.net.au/science/news/tech/InnovationRepublish_1598153.htm

From the Martyzone... Yawn...

This week's favorite from Marty Plotnick's newsletter:

Passing on the Yawn

Why do we yawn when we are tired? And why does it seem to be contagious?

http://tinyurl.com/s4t8v

Tiny URL substitution by me. Not exactly a new article, but still I never thought to look up why yawns seem contagious.

Enter the Cyberzone

Some of the five or six readers of my blog may notice I've added Marty Plotnick's Cyberzone to my list of links. Every Friday morning I receive Marty's newsletter which is a compliation of links to some really interesting technology news stories, not just from Hawaii where Marty lives, but from around the world.

I just thought I would mention it, since I always find his newsletter a fun read. Maybe some of you would too. ;)