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 …
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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 …
…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 …
…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 …
…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.
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 …
…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 …
Last week’s column on laughter, inspired by John Tierney’s column in the New York Times, mentioned that rats make a high-pitched squeak when tickled. Tierney’s blog has had several laughter-related posts since his column appeared. Here’s another one, specifically about rat-tickling–complete with a link to a rat-tickling video! (And how often can one say that?)
Everyone has heard by now that too much sun is bad for your skin, yet you still see normally pale-skinned people who stay nut-brown all year long—even in the depths of winter. In the summer, they lie in the sun. In the winter, they lie in a padded coffin and have themselves irradiated. The danger …
That’s Technovelgy.com‘s headline, not mine…but I had the same idea the first time I saw the picture.
…this one runs on compressed air. Not only that, it’s on the verge of production.
