…of top search terms bringing people to edwardwillett.com over the last week or so. I suspect that’s because this ancient city was back in the news with new archaeological finds being announced. Here are the current leaders, with links to where they take you on the site: 75 hamoukar 39 time perception 28 curling rock …
…or lit-up Coke bottles on a kite? Whatever, people are reporting mysterious lights in the skies over Arkansas. (For the record, I went to university in Arkansas…but, alas, never saw any mysterious lights. And I’m the sort of guy who’d really love to see something like that. People like me never see these things.)
Turns out that report about tiny transmitters in Canadian coins wasn’t true. Guess I can take the tinfoil out of my pockets now and put it back on my head where it belongs.
Had I known of this personal submarine before I wrote my new novel set on a water planet, I might have used something like it in the story. Then again, now that I’ve gotten a good look at it…maybe not. (Via Gizmodo.)
It gets into that whole wave/particle quantum thing: a team led by associate professor John Howell at the University of Rochester passed a single photon through a stencil bearing the letters UR. But since a photon is both a particle and a wave, as a wave, it passed through the entire stencil and thus captured …
Neural Bottleneck Found That Thwarts Multi-tasking. A couple of excerpts: “While we are driving, we are bombarded with visual information. We might also be talking to passengers or talking on the phone,” Marois said. “Our new research offers neurological evidence that the brain cannot effectively do two things at once. People think if they are …
…stories like this get my attention: Homeowners could see their electric bills reduced considerably with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s integrated heat pump. It says they hope to have a commercial manufacturer by 2008.
The Mosaic Potash Belle Plaine solution-process potash mine at (where else) Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, on a January morning. More photos here.
I came across the first review I’ve seen so far of my children’s biography Orson Scott Card: Architect of Alternate Worlds today at Barnes & Noble. It’s by Kristin Anderson and comes from School Libary Journal: This solid and well-researched biography does an able job of balancing information on the subject’s numerous publications with the …
…but sometimes, they’re right. Behold The Museum of Unworkable Devices.
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers. Of course, so far it’s only killed them outside of the body, but keep your fingers crossed.
Due to a mix-up, the Regina Leader Post failed to run my science column last week. Which means they’re running it this week. Which means I didn’t write a new one this week. Instead, I offer a blast from the past (five years ago) that came to mind because I’ve been poking around the amazing …
