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Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok

15 February 2009 grant b 0

The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the horizon and how far north or south in the sky.

Essentially… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok”

The Vertical Farm

12 February 2009 grant b 0

I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page on Cuba’s successful… Read the rest “The Vertical Farm”

The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing

10 February 2009 grant b 0

Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings:

AZoM, the A to Z of Materials:

Di Zhang and

… Read the rest “The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing”

Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492

1 February 2009 grant b 0



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From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in the early … Read the rest “Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492”

Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs

31 December 2008 grant b 0

The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008:

There is still a lot we do not know about the basics of energy systems dealing with photons,

… Read the rest “Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs”

Flying Lasers.

18 December 2008 grant b 0

We’re one step closer to living in a Flash Gordon serial, New Scientist reports, as engineers prepare to unleash a brilliant barrage of airborne death with fleets of flying lasers… Read the rest “Flying Lasers.”

Science Art: Explorer VII

6 December 2008 grant b 0



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The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed Earth’s radiation while looking… Read the rest “Science Art: Explorer VII”

Einstein’s Fridge

5 December 2008 grant b 0

Albert Einstein: atomic physicist, scientific genius, refrigerator maker? Back in the 1920s, he and his pupil Leo Szilard saw a need for a refrigerator (which is, if you think about it, … Read the rest “Einstein’s Fridge”

Science Art: Dykeri, fig 6, Nordisk familjebok

9 November 2008 grant b 0



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In my deep-sea diving suit.

Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.

Robinson Crusoe Found.

31 October 2008 grant b 0

Yes, the plucky, inventive island castaway Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character. But author Robert Louis Stevenson, writing in the mid-1800s, based him on the very real Alexander… Read the rest “Robinson Crusoe Found.”

The Light-Net.

10 October 2008 grant b 0

Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters:

Gizmodo:
The technology will be able

… Read the rest “The Light-Net.”

SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider

23 September 2008 grant b 0

SONG: “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider” (To download:double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: CERN progress updates throughout… Read the rest “SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider”

Drive my car.

16 September 2008 grant b 0

So. Wired tells us it’s true – the roar of the sportscar kinda turns us on:

To test the theory that high-performance cars get people hot, Moxon had 40 men and women listen to recordings

… Read the rest “Drive my car.”

LHC fires beam.

10 September 2008 grant b 1

And we all just shifted back in time by 3.214 seconds. Did you feel that?

Fly like a bumblebee.

8 September 2008 grant b 0

Scientists, as the Telegraph points out, have long been mystified by the bumblebee. It’s short and fat with stubby wings that, mathematically speaking, should never be able to generate… Read the rest “Fly like a bumblebee.”

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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