I don’t often mention politics in my science column, but I feel it is urgent to bring to the attention of all candidates a new field of research in which Australia has taken the lead and in which Canada, I feel, could make important contributions. I’m speaking, of course, of the study of disappearing teaspoons. …
The Regina area has been experiencing coyote problems. Regina is also home to a large population of Canada geese, much to the annoyance of users of our large downtown park, Wascana Centre. What do the two have to do with each other? Well, according to a study that reveals just how coyotes are thriving in …
The show musical theatre purists love to hate, The Phantom of the Opera, is about to become the longest-running musical in Broadway history. This will annoy some of my friends no end.
Via Robert J. Sawyer’s new blog I just discovered Solstation.com, which, as the site says, “provides information and software for those interested in astronomy and in writing, education, or entertainments related to science or speculative fiction.” Check it out!
Via Althouse, I learned that the scientist who discovered LSD has turned 100. I had no idea he was still alive. Having spent a few days between Christmas and New Year’s reworking my upcoming children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix, LSD, as I noted in a previous post, has once again been on my mind. Um, …
Here’s the New Scientist article that is referred to in The Scotsman‘s story about a possible “hyperspace drive” that I blogged about yesterday.
It’s The Sony Reader and it looks intriguing, but you know what? I’m finding my Audiovox Harrier is a jim-dandy e-book reader all on its own. The Sony one looks like overkill for just reading text.
The Scotsman sums up the cover story from The New Scientist this week: AN EXTRAORDINARY “hyperspace” engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government. They’re serious. It probably isn’t really possible. But if it is…wow.
Photo research for my APEGS book took me to Saskatoon today–and a beautiful day it turned out to be, with the sun shining on hoarfrost. Alas, I didn’t have my good camera with me, so I had to make do with my Audiovox Harrier built-in camera. Still, I thought these were worth sharing. Below, from …
As a dark-haired man, I have spent a number of recent New Year’s Eves standing out in the cold just before midnight so I can be the first person into the house. This is my own fault for having married into a family whose Scottish heritage includes the custom of “first-footing,” which dictates that the …
The Air Force is looking to develop spacewar skills through computer games.
Oregon State University researchers have made an important step toward a functional superlens, one using negative refraction–that is, it bends light the opposite direction to things in nature. Why should you care? In theory, a superlens might be able to attain visual resolution at the level of the nanometer, which is pretty small – a …
