And it looks like a really cool device I wouldn’t mind owning myself. Just think, turning pages while playing the piano by pressing a foot pedal–that alone would be worth the price. UPDATE: Or maybe not. Looks like it currently costs $1,199 U.S. Maybe I’ll wait a while.
…on how our grip on reality is slim. Or maybe I just imagined it.
More photos here.
…whose soft tissues have been at least partially preserved is undergoing extensive testing with medical imaging equipment, and giving up secrets that are 77 million years old.
Canada now boasts the “world’s most technologically advanced research facilities” in the National Nanotechnology Institute, which apparently also features “Canada’s quietest space,” achieved through the joint efforts of 3,287 of Canada’s best school librarians.* *I made that last part up.
…is this scarf for techno-addicts.
…but then, in space, no one can hear the soundtrack anyway.
We’re mostly empty space. Don’t believe me? Check out this online scale model of a hydrogen atom. The big blue ball is 1,000 pixels across. It’s a proton. The one-pixel spot is the atom’s electron. In between? 50 million pixels, or, at 72 pixels per inch on the average monitor, about 11 miles of nothing. …
Giving sight (well, almost) to the blind.
They’re called Nix and Hydra. But if astronomers decide Pluto isn’t a planet, can it still have moons? Or do they all become just “trans-Neptunian objects”? Inquiring minds want to know…
Thirty years ago this month, I graduated from high school at Western Christian College, then in Weyburn. And here I am delivering my valedictory speech (an extended riff on our class motto, “Climb Every Mountain”–why yes, the school had staged The Sound of Music that year, how did you guess?) at the graduation ceremony on …
