How’s the serenity…
- The dreadful hammers of Jules Verne. How one of the giants of science fiction was also one of geology’s first champions.
- Mercury – the magical metal that the EU wants to ban.
- Hill of Tara in list of world’s Top 100 endangered sites.
- Climate change imperils monuments. Apparently, climate change also kicks the canes out from under Grannys, and pulls the tails of kittens as well.
- 1947 – quite a year. With that Roswell thing and all, y’know.
- Mentalists mingle at Meeting of the Minds. You’d have to feel a little insecure walking around that place.
- International Space Station gets a new pea-sized window courtesy of a meteorite.
- 50 things you never knew about the full Moon.
- The two biggest stars ever are circling each other near the centre of the Milky Way.
- NASA’s Space Shuttle successor could fly in 2013.
- Alan Boyle continues to document the private sector push into space.
- Urban growth is reducing rainfall.
- Photosynth: the future of imaging software (video)? The BBC teams up with Microsoft to preview the tech.
- MIT demonstrates wireless power by illuminating a lightbulb from seven feet away.
- Run, bear, run! Robot bear will carry soldiers to safety. Perhaps a job best left to a President?
- Wheelchair man hits the highway on the front of a truck.
Quote of the Day:
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
