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Groovy!

Check out the groovy rings of Saturn in the latest Cassini image. And The Pajama Game run went splendidly, thanks for asking! Blogging should be more frequent again now.

The Three Laws…

of adapting books to movies, that is. How many will I, Robot break?

Isn’t it cute?

It’s a baby planet, and the discoverers are as happy as if they had given birth to it themselves.

Too busy to blog

This is the week that Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of The Pajama Game hits the boards, and I’m playing a lead role (Hines), plus behind-the-scenes tasks, so blogging will be light…

Blogads reader survey

Here are the interesting results of Blogads’ survey of blog readers.

A new solution for astronaut poop!

A possible solution for a problem you probably never gave any thought to until now. You’re welcome!

Today’s gratuitous anti-Americanism

No link to the story online that I can find, but I was struck by a comment made by a Vancouver city councillor in a CBC Radio news story I heard this morning. The story was primarily about a homeless persons’ tent city that a church in Seattle has allowed to be set up on …

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The science of guitars

I learned to play the piano and the French horn as a kid rather than the guitar. That’s a shame, because a guitar is far more useful around a campfire. It’s also (need I say it?) scientifically interesting. The guitar appears to have originated in Spain. Early guitars, from around the 14th century, had three …

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Mexican UFOs ball lightning?

Here’s the latest on the intriguing Mexican UFOs captured by fighter plane cameras.

What’s next?

That was the focus of NextFest, sponsored by Wired magazine and reported on by the BBC here. Flying cars, invisibility cloaks–maybe the future Popular Science used to promise us is going to make it after all.

Apocalypse Soon?

A climataologist casts a jaundiced eye at the latest example of bad Hollywood science: The Day After Tomorrow.

Another flight for SpaceShip One

SpaceShip One makes its third rocket-powered flight. I think most people think its the leading contender for the X-prize, but I’m personally rooting for the Da Vinci Project, since it’s set to launch from right here in Saskatchewan.