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 …
Hubble’s greatest hits
Gorgeous.
Turning waste heat into sound…
…and then into energy: Symko expects the devices could be used within two years as an alternative to photovoltaic cells for converting sunlight into electricity. The heat engines also could be used to cool laptop and other computers that generate more heat as their electronics grow more complex. And Symko foresees using the devices to …
Computers can now recognize faces…
…more accurately than humans can.
The angel and the devil on the shoulders of your teen
While I am still some seven years away from having a teenager of my own, I well remember being a teenager, and being occasionally asked by an exasperated parent, “What were you thinking?” To which, as often as not, I replied, “I don’t know.” This was seldom seen as an acceptable answer. Had I but …
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There are no utopias, as I believe I’ve said before
Bullies are everywhere. Even in Second Life. Why research bullying in a virtual online world? Funding for this project has come from the Dean of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Professor Christine Ennew, who describes bullying as a complex issue and one which perhaps hasn’t had the research attention it deserves. Professor Ennew said: “When …
A most appropriate presentation
This is cool: Nobel laureate James Watson – co-discoverer of the DNA double helix and father of the Human Genome Project – today, in a presentation at Baylor College of Medicine, became the first human to receive the data that encompass his personal genome sequence.It’s astonishing how far we’ve come in genetics in such a …
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