As tabacco companies are huge consumers of cotton, this is very cool idea.

KUSATSU, Shiga Prefecture–A group of students has found a way to recycle cigarette butts as T-shirts and persuaded local pachinko parlors and gas stations to donate the contents of their ashtrays to their enterprise.

via Students create fabric from cigarette butts – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun.

Atomic Insights Blog: Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries.

A good article putting things into perspective. While everyone is worrying and debating uselessly over the Fukushima reactor, the real people in serious danger need to be focussed on.

Completely mad. Completely cool.

Jeb Corliss wing-suit demo

If you need a visual guide to the colossal amount of money spent on the Large Hadron Collider, look no further than these pictures.  Remember too that the whole ring is super-cooled for added impact.

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart – The Big Picture – Boston.com.