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The blimp that swims like a fish
I’ve previously mentioned my enchantment with blimps, zeppelins, and other lighter-than-air airships. Now here’s a really cool one: a concept for a blimp that swims through the air like a fish, using artificial muscles.
If you enjoy Google Earth…
…but you’re tired of looking down on everyone, trying looking up instead, via WikiSky. From New Scientist Space Blog: The site features a map of more than half a billion astronomical objects. You can navigate around it easily by clicking and dragging the map and using a zoom-in/zoom-out sidebar. You can also search on specific …
Launching live theatre into the 22nd century
We’ve become accustomed to seeing real and virtual actors (or at least extras) blended with real and virtual sets in the movies. Now it’s being done live on stage: Using new techniques that merge the Internet 2 with traditional stage theatre, the University of Central Florida, Bradley University in Illinois and the University of Waterloo …
You say OVNI, I say UFO
France has unveiled a new web site that ought to be fun to poke around in: France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are …
Photo of the Day: Through a Dora the Explorer Kaleidoscope, Darkly
More photos here.
Willetts on Wine active again
I had the pleasure of attending the local launch of Lindeman’s new line of wines from South Africa this afternoon at the Willow on Wascana. You can read my impressions of the wines at our Willetts on Wine blog, now once more (after a serious hiatus) being regularly updated. If you’re interested in the opinions …
Amazing video of a solar flare…
…here. It was captured by Japan’s Hinode spacecraft in January: “I managed to stay in my seat,” says solar physicist John Davis of the Marshall Space Flight Center, “but just barely.” Davis is NASA’s project scientist for Hinode, Japanese for Sunrise. The spacecraft was launched in Sept. 2006 from the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan …
"Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin…"
…goes an old hymn I remember well. But we do yield to temptation, as every dieter knows. It’s such a human trait that it’s the whole basis for the Bible–Adam yielded to temptation, and God had to send his Son to die for all our sins as a result. (That’s the short version, there’s lots …
There’s a storm a-comin’…
…from the sun. The next Solar Maximum is expected to be a doozy, the biggest since we entered a fully electronic age and ringed our world with satellites. It will be… interesting…to see what effect it has on modern technology.
Student evaluations of Socrates
Very funny. A taste: Socrates is a real drag, I don’t know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them all the time. He pretends like he’s teaching them, but he’s really ramming his ideas down student’s throtes. He’s always taking over the conversation and hardly lets anyone …
The latest additions to my oeuvre…
…arrived this week, to whit my thrill-a-minute educational books Neon and Magnesium, both published by Rosen Publishing. The books are part of Rosen’s series “Understanding the Elements of the Periodic Table.” It looks like I’ll soon be working on another Rosen book plus two more for the other educational publisher I do quite a bit …
My latest live walk and vlog
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