Slashdot recently had a topic on podcasts that talk about science. I was amazed at how many there are out there for free. I compiled a list of them for my use and anyone else who's interested. For those who pop in here and believe in intelligent design and think angels really exist, please challenge...
Chris ran across a good article recently on the worth of manned spaceflight. It's preaching to the choir. I've always said the space shuttles have no real purpose since the majority of activities could be robotic. I understand the need to get and keep humans in space since it's really the only way I...
I just read an interesting article on scifi.com about a new type of nuclear reactor. Apparently by using the element Thorium (just to the left of Uranium) and low energy neutrons a safer reactor can be built, one that doesn't operate on the chain reaction principle. Scientist recently discovered this...
So I've been reading this book Hominids by Robert Sawyer . As usual he's put together a good story. About a parallel universe in which the Neandertals became the dominant Homo species instead of us. So one them gets transported over to our universe with a wave of the scifi author's magic wand and so...
So Gregg and I finally got around to seeing the movie What the Bleep Do We Know? I give it a 6 out of 10. It's sort of reminded me of some of the jazzed up specials on Nova or Discovery channel when they try to explain something in science that's esoteric. Throw in a little animation and cool special...
Well it looks like Stephen Hawking corrected his theory to account for the “information sink“ a blackhole represents. The Non Sequitor cartoon as usual is about 50,000 feet over the average readers head did it once again this weekend --
News story Norm: Say Martha did you feel a bump in the road? Martha: Why yes I did, I just figured it was some old roadkill. Norm: Mmm.. ok. Say did the minivan's microwave oven finish popping my corn yet? Martha: Why yes it did.. sorry I was too busy watching my movie on the dvd player.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures...
I found this cool web site Confluence Project . Basically it's taking pictures of the world's land mass at every point where latitude and longitude lines cross at whole numbers. Of course I had to wonder around the extreme spots like the high latitudes and where 0 - 0 cross. I took a look at Austrailia...
My friend Chris keeps a running list of his recently read online/offline articles and books. One of his recent articles is from Time magazine -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040119-574884,00.html Typical Time magazine article, biased and trying to run up the reader's 'lusions...
So the Brits lost the Mars lander Beagle 2. Damn bloody shame. It was a gamble at best that the craft would survive the landing and be able to land right side up so it could deploy it's solar panels. Guess it's just sitting there like a piece of junk among the martian rubble. We need to send up the Sprint...