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“Fake Science” is Better Than No Science
Posted in Science on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
7th Graders Invade Mars
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy, Science on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Space.com has a great story about a group of 7th graders from Cottonwood, California that got to go where no middle schooler has gone before. The Mars Student Imaging Program, part of the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, lets students use the camera on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter to answer interesting research [...]
Going Green
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This pic from NASA looks like it could have come from any one of a hundred different science fiction movies. But, as usual, the truth is wilder than fiction – as the astronauts aboard the International Space Station caught this rare view of the Aurora Australis above the Indian Ocean this past May 29. Similar [...]
“To boldly go…”
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The ’09-’10 school year may have come to a close and this year’s seniors may have boldly gone off to explore strange new worlds (hopefully not too strange). But that doesn’t mean that everything has come to a halt. For example, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft continues its journey 1.4 billion miles from Earth. It has spent [...]
So what do you do with tubing, skewers, tape, and a marble!!!!!!!
Posted in Science, Uncategorized on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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Eyjafjallajokull
Posted in Environment, Science on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the Norse creation myths life sprang out of a world made up of only fire and ice. It might have looked something like the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull shown above. Click here to see other must-see Eyjafjallajokull photos at Boston.com. National Geographic also has some really cool pics here.
Who Needs Zombie Movies
Posted in Science, tagged biology on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter loves horror movies, including the vast zombie oeuvre. But who needs zombie fiction when, as usual, the truth is far more strange. In a real lab, real bespectacled, earnest scientists in white lab coats, found real wasps that implant their larvae in an innocent spider, which as they grow they zombify, control and [...]
Coffee, Tea, Eclipse?
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What are you and the family doing on July 11? How about watching this summer’s solar eclipse from a vantage point that’s a little bit closer to the sun? Glenn Schneider, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, has chartered a plane that will fly 12 km over the South Pacific Ocean to get a [...]
Speaking of Privacy…
Posted in Science, tagged technology on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
… It made world headlines yesterday. Google announced that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship rules. Absent an agreement with the Chinese government to not censor its information, Google said that it is considering shutting down its Chinese operations. The announcement was sparked when Google uncovered what it believes to be the [...]
Seeing the Light
Posted in Environment, Science, tagged technology on January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Could the day be coming soon when people look at the pic on the left and wonder what Thomas Edison is holding in his hand? Lomox, a Welsh company, is developing light-emitting wallpaper and paint that may begin to replace light bulbs as soon as 2012. According to a TimesOnline article, the wall coating will [...]
What’s New?
Posted in Science, tagged technology on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t know what’s new, then take a look at what Popular Science Magazine thinks are the 100 Best Innovations of 2009. The article classifies the list into 11 categories, such as automobiles, aviation/space, computing, entertainment, green, etc. Many of the innovations fall into the category of “what’s old is new again.” E.g., the Product of [...]
Best Ofs
Posted in Science, tagged biology on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Closing in on the New Year – it’s the best of times for “Best Of” lists. So, let’s not tarry and jump to our first list – a best insect photos of 2009, courtesy of Myrmecos Blog:
Shortest Day’s Journey Into Night
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Day After the Winter Solstice! For us Northern Hemispherians, yesterday at 17:47 GMT the Sun “bounced” off of its lowest point in the sky, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. From here on out until the Summer Solstice in June 2010, our days get increasingly longer. But until then, that’s [...]
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