Star Trek science
I've seen a couple of people complain about the new Trek movies not being very scientific, which led me to... (More...)
I've seen a couple of people complain about the new Trek movies not being very scientific, which led me to... (More...)
Happened across this while looking up something else: But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part... (More...)
Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back: IBM discovers the business value of editors. OkCupid... (More...)
A set of interesting and thematically linked items, I think via BoingBoing: A scientific hoax/trick/joke: water marbles. The video shows... (More...)
Really must clear out some browser windows. Squirrels: Y'all know about Crasher Squirrel? This couple was on vacation in Banff,... (More...)
Interesting New York Times article: "Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop." Some key bits from the article:... (More...)
The wedding was lovely. Up until the last minute, there was some uncertainty about whether it would have to be... (More...)
The other day, happened across an interesting article in TIME: "Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill," by Amy Sullivan.... (More...)
Interesting pair of articles: "Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?", by Ted Anthony, for AP, discusses... (More...)
Lane Wallace discusses spaceflight, sense of wonder, and technology—noting, for example, that the Apollo 11 computer had 36K of memory.... (More...)
At some point during college, Rob S added a catchphrase to our ever-growing collection of catchphrases and slogans: "SUPERCONDUCTORS MAKE... (More...)
Scientific American has an article about a study that shows that people can (with better-than-chance accuracy) identify which men are... (More...)
I've seen a bunch of people in the past few days say things like "Well, the Large Hadron Collider has... (More...)
Turns out that it was declared a few years back that April 12 of every year is Yuri's Night, a... (More...)
Dr. Robert Bussard, best known in the sf world as inventor of the Bussard ramjet, has spent the past 15+... (More...)
A trio of economists at Cornell and Indiana University-Purdue have done an as-yet-unpublished study that makes the following claims: As... (More...)
A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,... (More...)
I imagine y'all have seen Google Moon by now. But now there's something new: Google Mars, apparently released just in... (More...)
Buncha cool stuff here, including some videos and music, on various geeky topics. Physics of Oobleck (that is, of corn... (More...)
These items have no theme (well, okay, maybe "gender and genre"?); just wanting to close some browser windows. I think... (More...)
I got D&J's permission, so here's the photo of Rose and her mustache. Moments after I took that photo, Rose... (More...)
The latest robotic NASA mission to Mars seems to be a success so far; the rover, named Spirit, has transmitted... (More...)