Ice spheres and water marbles
A set of interesting and thematically linked items, I think via BoingBoing: A scientific hoax/trick/joke: water marbles. The video shows...
Archive for Science
Items: Miscellaneous
Really must clear out some browser windows. Squirrels: Y'all know about Crasher Squirrel? This couple was on vacation in Banff,...
Stress makes rats get into ruts
Interesting New York Times article: "Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop." Some key bits from the article:...
Wedding weekend
The wedding was lovely. Up until the last minute, there was some uncertainty about whether it would have to be...
Some interesting abortion articles
The other day, happened across an interesting article in TIME: "Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill," by Amy Sullivan....
Space travel, sense of wonder, and engineering feats
Interesting pair of articles: "Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?", by Ted Anthony, for AP, discusses...
Apollo 11: Forty years later
Lane Wallace discusses spaceflight, sense of wonder, and technology—noting, for example, that the Apollo 11 computer had 36K of memory....
Super superconductor demo
At some point during college, Rob S added a catchphrase to our ever-growing collection of catchphrases and slogans: "SUPERCONDUCTORS MAKE...
Study shows people have good gaydar
Scientific American has an article about a study that shows that people can (with better-than-chance accuracy) identify which men are...
LHC and the end of the world
I've seen a bunch of people in the past few days say things like "Well, the Large Hadron Collider has...
Space party
Turns out that it was declared a few years back that April 12 of every year is Yuri's Night, a...
Bussard on safe cheap fusion
Dr. Robert Bussard, best known in the sf world as inventor of the Bussard ramjet, has spent the past 15+...