This is a cool video - a live Bunraku matrix-style ping-pong game.[via monochrom]

A strange gallery of pictures using some old techniques, to spooky effect. [via boingboing]

An cool article by a Norwegian professor giving reasons why a high school student should choose to take Maths.

A review of a book called "The evolutionary origins of belief", by Lewis Wolpert.

On how to use genetic algorithms and user feedback to create or choose objects with elusive qualities, such as beatiful pictures.

This is a picture of the Z-Pinch device at Sandia National Labs. It's basically a huge capacitor, used for researching problems such as this.

Amnesty International points out in a report that 14000 people are detained without trial (à la Guantánamo) in Iraq.

A physicist improved an algorithm used for biological imaging - and it now also solves sudoku puzzles easily.