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A blogger reviews Genetics Demystified
JinxIdoru (a blog) has reviewed Genetics Demystified, and rather favorably, too: I have to say that if all of the Demystified books are as good as this one, then I am sold. It was very clear and explained complicated concepts in an understandable form. The quizzes were a great way to check my grasp of …
From Verne to Vonnegut…
…is the name of this exhibition, celebrating “A Century of Science Fiction,” at the University of Delaware Library. I’ve only scratched the surface of what they’ve put on the Web, but I’ll be back to read it in depth. Alas, it seems unlikely I’ll make it to the University of Delaware to see the actual …
A nice little review of Magnesium
My editor at Rosen Publishing passed along this review of my children’s science book Magnesium yesterday: “This is the second book in this series that I have reviewed and again, the author has done a fine job of explaining what can be a complex and confusing subject. Although not a scientist, I enjoyed the anecdotal …
"That’s not a tunnel. This is a tunnel."
Playing the part of Crocodile Dundee (remember him?) today: the Russians. Russia plans to build the world’s longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia. The project, which Russia is coordinating …
New flag for a remade planet
Popular Science ran a contest and has come up with New Glory: A Flag for a Terraformed Mars. It’s red, of course…although, if it’s for a terraformed Mars, shouldn’t it have at least a little blue and green in it?
Science fiction headline of the day:
“Star Trek shields will protect man in space.” From the TimesOnline story: “It’s no accident that Star Trek featured this sort of technology, as it had advisers who work for Nasa and it’s feasible,” Dr Bamford said. “The shields seem to be some sort of invisible barrier, which energy bounces off, and that sort of …
Engines? We don’t need no steenkin’ engines…
Behold the pedal-powered blimp. (Via Tobias Buckell.)
Eye, eye, sir!
It’s not very often that one runs across a scientific study whose methodology consisted largely of watching the Fox TV show COPS. But that was how Mardi Kidwell, assistant professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire, went about her research on “the role of gaze in the interactional management of hysteria by the …
Spiderman: The Musical?
No, seriously.
This looks like a century-old headline:
“By airship to the North Pole — Zeppelin expedition will survey sea ice in the Arctic.“ But it’s not.
The medieval help desk
Yes, I know, thousands of people have already linked to this video of a patient medieval tech support worker guiding a monk in the usage of the very latest information storage technology…but I haven’t! Well, until now, that is.
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