News Briefs 11-12-2009
Posted by Turner Young at 10:44, 11 Dec 2009Does anybody forget laughter?
- The spiraling Norway light wasn't from another dimension… it was a failed Russian rocket. More here about Russia’s latest missile test.
- 2000-2010, a decade of great change.
- Cloud-seeding to fight the growing drought.
- A new star in the Big Dipper?
- The nighttime sky, in infrared courtesy of the WISE mission.
- Take a deep breath and tell me what you taste… Yup. That’s space gas. More here about how the Earth’s atmosphere came from space.
- The mystery of Saturn’s moon, Iapetus, has gone the way of the dodo.
- All hail the paper battery!
- Newly discovered dinosaur solves evolutionary gap.
- Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel.
- U.S. to build it’s first offshore wind farm.
- The scientifically perfect slice of pizza. Hooray for science!
- Felled forest leads to discovery of ancient Amazon civilization.
- Where does memory reside?
- Ceremonies, sex, healing and seven other ‘best uses for a stone circle’.
- The music of Muse… Aliens, global conspiracies and visions of armaggeddon. These are a few of my favorite things...
- Wahoo! I caught me a satellite! Now what do I do with it?
- Saturn's bizarre hexagon is wider than two Earths and ridiculously cool.
- Rewriting memories to make them less traumatic. Paging Clementine Kruczynski...
- Mother Russia is trying to control Mother Nature.
- A 5 million year-old mystery surrounding an Ancient Mediterranean flood has been solved.
- Lab-coats claim that we (we being hairless bi-peds) have a 6-hour window to erase fear. At hour seven, everything goes straight into Binkley’s anxiety closet.
- Ladies and gentlemen… bionic fingers.
- And last but not least-- 3 singing, frightening android heads.
Many thanks to Kat and Greg for this week and ENORMOUS thanks to Perceval for the last two weeks of truly thought-provoking news stories.
Quote of the Day:
“Here there be tygers.”
Ray Bradbury
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Comments
10 August 2004
1 hour 15 min
...that scientists need some light entertainment at times, but it seems to me that they could find a more profitable way to spend their energy that working out the most ideal way to slice up pizza.
Take one item (such as a slab of cake) and two children. One child cuts the cake into two pieces, but the other child gets to choose first which bit he'll have - totally fair, and no mathematical skill required for the solution!
Regards, Kathrinn
6 February 2008
1 hour 5 min
in the same waste basket as the study of the math behind entanglement of extension cords... ;)
22 November 2004
8 hours 51 min
Just last week I experienced something really scary.
I retrieved my laptop power adapter from my backpack. It is the usual little box, with a power cord to the wall socket, and another thinner cord going to the laptop. This had been in the backpack for a week or so.
It Was Completely Tangle Free !!.
Can you explain that one?
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.
6 February 2008
1 hour 5 min
That was one of the variables in the extention cord equation. Lenght of exhibit A... ;)
22 November 2004
8 hours 51 min
Thanks for clearing that up.
I'm still a little concerned that the world may be coming to an end because of this though. These things just don't happen normally.
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.
10 August 2004
1 hour 15 min
You just came up with a new "end of the world" scenario!!
Although maybe some enterprising person has finally invented a tangle-free power cord. Wish he'd visit my house and untangle some of the wiry mess down the back of my computer desk - I don't look at it often as it's too scary!
Regards, Kathrinn
1 May 2004
1 day 12 hours
A paper battery makes me wonder about ancient magical texts. Could some of those magicians have been casting spells using some kind of tome or parchment that actually served as a capacitor?
10 August 2004
1 hour 15 min
I once read somewhere that the Ancients moved large stones by placing them on a sheet of papyrus and striking them with a rod, whereupon they then flew through the air.
Ref the paper batteries - are there any technical folk out there who know how this might work if the 'papyrus' was actually a paper battery??
Regards, Kathrinn