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Skilled Veterans Corps heads into the fire.

7 June 2011 grant b 0

BBC reports on a team of senior heroes, coming out of retirement – literally – to fight the radiation at Fukushima power station:

The retired engineer is reporting back for

… Read the rest “Skilled Veterans Corps heads into the fire.”

Driving while absent.

17 May 2011 grant b 0

No, PhysOrg says, if Google has its way, it won’t be illegal any more in Nevada if you want to send your car out for a spin without a driver:

It’s not exactly clear why Google chose Nevada

… Read the rest “Driving while absent.”

Fracking stinkwater.

12 May 2011 grant b 0

Nature looks at the odoriferous threat to our drinking water created by new methods of natural gas mining:

Injecting large quantities of water and other fluids to fracture deep rock formations

… Read the rest “Fracking stinkwater.”

Inside Fukushima

16 March 2011 grant b 0

Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami:

So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at the core of both reactors

… Read the rest “Inside Fukushima”

China’s nuclear future.

9 March 2011 grant b 0

The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium:

Imagine how the nuclear energy debate might differ

… Read the rest “China’s nuclear future.”

Science Art: “Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine,” from One Hundred Years’ Progress of the United States, 1871

6 February 2011 grant b 0


Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine
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Beautiful machine for skilled labor.

You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org.

[via Old Book Illustrations]

Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL

2 January 2011 grant b 0


Ride the Blue Flame, Rocketeer
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From the Wikimedia Commons description:

This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA’s Jet

… Read the rest “Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL”

Stop your engines (for just a second).

31 December 2010 grant b 0

CleanTechnica announces some fuel-saving technology that’s making its way from hybrids to standard automobiles:

Start-stop is a fuel saving approach mainly associated with

… Read the rest “Stop your engines (for just a second).”

Science Art: X-15 Pilots Clown Around, 1966

12 December 2010 grant b 1



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From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.

Coffee balloon hands.

27 October 2010 grant b 0

Yeah, that headline sounds kind of dada, doesn’t it? But it’s exactly what The Register is describing as the latest Pentagon robotics breakthrough:

The manipulator works

… Read the rest “Coffee balloon hands.”

Jellyfish engines.

8 October 2010 grant b 0

U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish:

Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they swim…. these

… Read the rest “Jellyfish engines.”

Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)

19 September 2010 grant b 0

Image from PHIL, the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control.

It’s an old-fashioned fridge, as recommended by the Minnesota Board of Health in 1929 as a means… Read the rest “Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)”

Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel

5 September 2010 grant b 0



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NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons.

It’s pretty awesome.

So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” because it was studying that… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel”

Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820

29 August 2010 grant b 0



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Image of Victorian-era coastal survey equipment found in the NOAA Photo Library.

The equipment belonged to the artist’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant and West… Read the rest “Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820”

Gorilla glass!

4 August 2010 grant b 0

The Christian Science Monitor loves primates. On the heels of the flying squirrel discovery, they’re analyzing the economic ramifications of “gorilla glass”:

Two

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