Good news: DaimlerChrysler has announced it will sell a hydrogen-powered car using fuel cell technology. Bad news? It won’t be available until 2012. Faster, please.
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A quiet motorcyle is a good thing…or is it?
British engineers have produced a zero-emission motorcycle powered by a high-pressure hydrogen fuel cell that makes no more noise than your PC’s fan. (Probably less noise than mine, which I think will have to be replaced soon.) Those who are not enamored of the ripping roar of an ordinary motorcycle may cheer the quietness of …
Robot finds life!
Not on Mars, unfortunately, but in the Chilean desert. But it’s a good dry run (no pun intended, but it’s not a bad one, is it?) for an eventual life-detecting rover mission to the Red Planet.
WWTT? (What Would Tolkien Think?), Part 2
The world premiere of the musical theatre version of The Lord of the Rings will debut in Toronto. It will either be wildly wonderful or…just as likely, I fear…astonishingly awful.
A building in a bag
Every year disasters and wars leave homes in ruins or drive people from them. One of the first tasks of emergency workers is to provide shelter–typically in the form of tents. As anyone who has ever served time–er, spent time camping knows, however, a tent is not something you want to live in indefinitely. When …
Visit the Crystal Palace
I’ve always been fascinated by accounts of the Crystal Palace, centrepiece of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The palace itself, after being relocated, burned down in 1936, but this computer reconstruction gives you a pretty good idea of what it was like to walk through this, for its time, futuristic building.
A building in a bag
Every year disasters and wars leave homes in ruins or drive people from them. One of the first tasks of emergency workers is to provide shelter–typically in the form of tents. As anyone who has ever served time–er, spent time camping knows, however, a tent is not something you want to live in indefinitely. When you’re camping …
Martian squeegee men strike again!
Spirit has a new lease on life, thanks to a good-heartedMartian dust-devil.
21st century punch card!
When I first started working at the Weyburn Review, the data for billing and payroll were recorded on punch cards that were sent to Regina for processing. Twenty years later, and IBM is touting the 21st century equivalent of a punch card: a mechanical chip that stores data in the form of nanoscale holes in …
Off to Young
I’m off to Young, Saskatchewan, for a school reading this afternoon…Grades 10 to 12, so I’ll probably read this.
Very small, but very interesting!
Call them nanobacteria or Calcifying self-propagating nanoparticles, tiny…things…may be contributing to human illness. Research continues–but not as much as you might think would be warranted.
More ammunition for parents!
According to researchers at Northern Arizona University, a closer regulation of the tattoo industry may be warranted, due to possible health concerns with tattoo inks.
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