After losing so many Mars missions over the last decade, it’s so good to hear that NASA gets a break once in a while. A small but important uptick in electrical output from the solar panels on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit this month indicates a beneficial Martian wind has blown away some of the [...]
Well despite my very well thought out clip job from yesterday on magenta not being a real color, there is a very thought out rebuttal article on Ars Technica today. I still hate Blue’s Clues with Joe. So back to this rumor that magenta somehow isn’t a color. Elliott’s thesis centers on the argument that [...]
Read the article. It’s pretty cool but trust me, I now know that magenta has always been a pigment of my imaginationmagenta has always been a pigment of my imagination. A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, [...]
Europe’s particle physics lab, Cern, is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, or “God particle”, its US rival claims. The particle, whose existence has been predicted by theoreticians, would help to explain why matter has mass. Finding the Higgs is a major goal of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). [...]
I was actually glad to hear this report on NPR this morning. There have been some that theorize that one of the reasons Neanderthals disappeared was they were interbred into extinction with Homo SapiensW at the time. Now that the genes have been sequenced, it would seem that theory can finally be put to rest. [...]
Nothing witty, snarky or stupid to say here. Just interesting. We know the fossil record underestimates diversity at least a little, and we know that forested environments in Africa tend to be underrepresented. Given this, the diversity of Miocene apes may have been rather impressive, because there is a fairly high diversity in what we [...]
I personally think that the path of capturing kinetic energy from daily operations is very exciting. I posted today about the hamsters and now this about the shock absorbers in cars. It’s exciting to see how much energy can be harvested from the parts that are already moving on our cars. Now the trick will [...]
It would seem that some researchers over at Georgia Tech have pulled the hamsters out of their assespulled the hamsters out of their asses and put them to more creative use…generating electricity. Read on… In a paper published online this week in the journal Nano Letters, Wang’s group describes using the nanogenerator to harvest different [...]
This blogs subtitle is “Ramblings of an Amateur Futurist” and I figure I better post something futuristic…lol I caught this today regarding the relatively affordable cost of gene sequencing. $5000! According to WikiAnswers, the average cost of an MRIW is between $400-$2000, averaging around $800. Reid’s promises and data certainly caught the attention of the [...]
Ok, I’ll say it. This dude has wayyyyyy to much time on his hands. Matt Springer from Built on Facts sat down and calculated the amount of power it would take to destroy the Earth. Now let’s say you wanted to take apart the earth. Yes, the whole thing. You want to grab each bit [...]
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