That’s the promise of Ultrafast Electron Microscopy. What’s it good for? Listen to organic chemist Derek Lowe: “We’d be able to see catalyst molecules moving and rearranging as they do their work, and watch the shifting environment of metal atoms inside enzyme active sites. Subtle changes in crystal structures, happening too fast for us to …
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Bob Peak
In the category of “Someone I’ve Never Heard of Whose Work I’ve Long Admired,” I give you Bob Peak. Check out the movie poster gallery in particular. From Camelot to My Fair Lady to The Black Stallion to Star Trek: The Motion Picture…almost every movie I remember fondly from my peak movie-going years (i.e., before …
A camera in the wild
Man, how cool is this? A live camera at a watering hole in Botswana. Amazing. And more interesting than at least 75 percent of what’s on TV! (Via Cold Ground.)
Slow blogging day…
I haven’t posted much the last couple of days as I worked to polish off my children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix… Which (ta-da!) I have done! Yay! Now I can worry about all those other deadlines rushing my way…
Turn it up!
Summer is the time for outdoor concerts, but even when 20,000 people gather in a muddy field, they take it for granted that they’ll be able to clearly hear the music…and complain if they don’t. We’re so used to electronically amplified sound the only time we give it any thought is when it doesn’t work …
This is a far-reaching disaster
From the CBC News website: It is estimated there are still between two and five thousand people left in the squalor at the Superdome waiting to be rescued. According earlier reports, those left at the Skydome could be there until Sunday. (Emphasis added.) Wow, hurricane refugees in Toronto’s Skydome. Who knew the disaster was so …
Hurricane damage to cultural institutions
Not the prime concern, but still of concern: here’s a status report on cultural institutions affected by Hurricane Katrina. My first reaction: not as bad as I feared.
Aid for Katrina victims
Bloggers everywhere today are promoting donations in aid of the victims of Hurrican Katrina. I chose to give through the Canadian Red Cross. Instapundit is coordinating, and has an extensive list of other ways to donate. Be generous.
This just in: Shakespeare was…Shakespeare
Here’s a terrific article that takes aim at loony “Shakespeare was anyone but Shakespeare” theorists and clobbers a few other conspiracy theorists, and conspiracy theorizing in general, in the bargain.
Nice comments on Lost in Translation
Hey, this is nice. From the Faster_than_light LiveJournal: “Much more pleasing is Edward Willett’s Lost in Translation, not to be confused with the film of the same name starring Bill Murray. In this book humans and a race of gorgeous little flying creatures called S’sin despise each other with a passion equal to the heat …
Weyburn: the Psychedelic City
LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) has been on my mind recently–not because I’m taking it, I hasten to add, but because I’ve been working on a children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix, who was rather fond of the stuff. Thus I was interested to come across this history of scientific experimentation with LSD…particularly since I already knew, …
This isn’t your granddaddy’s Hindenburg…
…but it is a giant airship. The U.S. Defense Department has handed more than $6 million to Lockheed Martin and Aeros Aeronautical Group to start designing a small version of what they eventually hope will be a giant blimp that can hal 1,800 soldiers and their gear 12,000 nautical miles in less than a week.
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