It’s a question I keep getting asked. In Yorkton last year at a library reading a local reporter showed up and asked me. I said “more than 30.” She gave me a withering look of scorn and said in a rather hostile and sarcastic tone (an odd attitude for a reporter to take with an …
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Return of the Photo of the Day: Regina Sunset
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Music scores for free!
I just learned about this site: the International Music Score Library Project. It’s a wiki that aims to “create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.” There are currently 4,268 works represented in 7,460 PDF …
No puddles on Mars
That story I blogged about postulating possible puddles on Mars? Fuhgeddaboutit. Turns out the photo in question comes from the side of a crater–on terrain too steeply sloped for puddles to be possible. So neither the depressions in the photo, nor the startling hypothesis put forward concerning them, hold water. Too bad!
Does a hidden ocean of liquid water lurk beneath Titan’s surface?
Maybe. And if so, it could harbor life.
Good news for carnivores!
Recent studies published in the journal Cancer Science have disproved the common myth that consumption of red meat increases colorectal cancer risk.Read the whole thing.
WiTricity? Why not?
Unless it’s your smoke alarm saving your life, mysterious electronic beeping in the middle of the night is highly annoying. It certainly annoyed Marin Soljacic a few years ago when he found himself standing in his kitchen in his pajamas in the middle of the night for about the sixth time in a month, staring …
Puddles on Mars?
Is this a picture of puddles on Mars? UPDATE: No, it isn’t. Turns out the terrain in question is on a slope too steep to hold water…something the researchers somehow failed to notice.
Taking on an environmentalist icon
John Tierney of the New York Times dares to point out the feet of clay of environmentalist legend Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. A sample: The obsession with eliminating minute risks from synthetic chemicals has wasted vast sums of money: environmental experts complain that the billions spent cleaning up Superfund sites would be better …
Wi-Fi is so last year…
…are you ready for wireless electricity?
Queen for a Day
No, the title doesn’t refer to my upcoming performance in drag as the Mother in Class Act Studio‘s production of La Fille Mal Gardée, which is their annual ballet recital this year. (What, I haven’t mentioned that upcoming performance? Well, now I have: June 27, June 28, Riddell Centre, 7 p.m. Don’t miss it. I’ll …
Searching out search engines
This week’s CBC Radio Web column… ********* Have you ever heard yourself say, “Let me Google that?” Probably. Google is by far the most popular search engine on the World Wide Web–so popular many people never think of using anything else. But Google isn’t the only way to search for things on the Web. Just …
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