What's a Cello Sound Like?
Kandinsky said it's "the deepest blue of all the instruments." More on synaesthesia.
What's a Meta For?
Metaphors help us understand the universe, but what if they're really helping us get it wrong?
What's Even Better Than Turkey-And-Gravy Soda?
Why smoked salmon flavor, of course.
What's Funny About the Iraq War?
Journalist Malcolm McPherson has become satiric novelist Malcolm McPherson. How come? Because the best stories in his reporter's notebook stayed in his reporter's notebook.
What's in Your Beer?
Unless it's produced according to the Reinheitsgebot of 1516, your beer may contain betaglucanase, ammonia caramel, rhoiso-alpha acids, sulphur dioxide, protease, amyloglucosidase, or propylene glycol alginate. Yum!
What's Music Good For?
Well, for one thing, "Music gives biologists fits." What an image.
What's Six or Seven Million Years Amongst Family?
New fossils discovered in Ethiopia "conclusively demonstrates that the Last Common Ancestor (of both man and ape) was strictly an African phenomenon," according to an article published in Nature.
What's That?
Bagheera's bug huntin'!
What's The Difference Between Looking And Seeing?
Answer: You have to "attend" to an object for it to actually register. Jeff Wong sends along a couple of links on "change blindness." Click on the external link for the article and then click herehttp://www.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/flicker/download/index.html">here; for the examples.