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Month: October 2009

The Robot Blimps of Mars

30 October 2009 grant b 0

Wired has me eager for interplanetary conquest with their look at our armada of airships and robotic rovers:

With the miniature lab tests complete, [Wolfgang Fink, of Cal Tech’s Visual

… Read the rest “The Robot Blimps of Mars”

SURPRISE! Asteroid nearly blows up Indonesia.

29 October 2009 grant b 0

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the Telegraph reports that an asteroid just blew up over Indonesia with the force of three atomic bombs:

Scientists are concerned that it

… Read the rest “SURPRISE! Asteroid nearly blows up Indonesia.”

DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs”

28 October 2009 grant b 0

Discover has an interesting bit of unexpected biomimicry. The mantis shrimp (probably the scariest marine predator less than 3 feet long) has an unusual way of looking at the world…… Read the rest “DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs””

Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…

27 October 2009 grant b 0

We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals:

[Said Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned

… Read the rest “Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…”

The green planet-killer.

26 October 2009 grant b 0

Forget asteroids or nuclear war. Science Daily now has me worried that we’re all going to die from toxic pond scum:

The microscopic plants usually exist in small concentrations,

… Read the rest “The green planet-killer.”

Science Art: Von Karman Vortices

25 October 2009 grant b 0



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Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist knows, when a fluid moves around an… Read the rest “Science Art: Von Karman Vortices”

SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out

23 October 2009 grant b 1

SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out
(To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “A Rocket for the 21st Century”, from… Read the rest “SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out”

Rock the Power, Gramps.

22 October 2009 grant b 0

Designboom recently gave a green design award to the Murakami rocking chair.

Great invention – it’s a rocking chair with a dynamo and a built-in reading lamp. Your rocking … Read the rest “Rock the Power, Gramps.”

Spies in the house of science.

21 October 2009 grant b 0

So first there was that little problem with Al Qaeda and the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Belfast Telegraph reveals a similar link between Mossad and NASA:

In an affidavit supporting

… Read the rest “Spies in the house of science.”

LSD is medicine – and so are magic mushrooms.

20 October 2009 grant b 0

…and not only that, but painkilling medicine, too. Newsweek reveals that the psychedelic rocket fuels of 1960s culture are proving to be unique weapons against the otherwise untreatable… Read the rest “LSD is medicine – and so are magic mushrooms.”

Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok

19 October 2009 grant b 0



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The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top.

There’s something totemic about it, I think… King Bird looking over his food subjects.… Read the rest “Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok”

The spy in your pocket.

19 October 2009 grant b 0

New Scientist challenges a team of professional electronic snoops, who prove that strangers can learn more than you think from your phone:

I’ve just walked into a windowless room

… Read the rest “The spy in your pocket.”

Is this how acupuncture works?

16 October 2009 grant b 0

A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work:

His research, to be published in the Journal

… Read the rest “Is this how acupuncture works?”

Coconut fusion reactor.

15 October 2009 grant b 0

New Scientist goes tropical, revealing what a fusion reactor has in common with a pina colada:

The coconuts will be used to generate 10,000 cubic metres of nothing – the vacuum essential

… Read the rest “Coconut fusion reactor.”

“YOU PUT IN OTHER DETAILS.”

14 October 2009 grant b 1

This is why we do what we do: Letter to a ^top scientist at Woomera.

This is how the space race was won, you know. Millions of children who had the rocket researchers’ addresses.

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