links for 2006-04-01

Scientists have found a molecule that can spin freely in liquid, clearing out water like a person swinging suitcases would clear a crowded room.

Philippe Peigneux and colleagues at the University of Liege demonstrate for the first time that the brain doesn't wait until night to structure information. Day and night, the brain doesn't stop (re)working what we learn.

Operation "Divine Strake": mushroom cloud over Las Vegas in the first week of June.

So how is Web 2.0 doing generally?Typically, there's an initial spike around the buzz of a release of some sort (what I like to call the "Honeymoon" or "Techcrunch" phase), and then things settle down.

Former first lady Nancy Reagan unveiled a portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday morning.