The Norwegian newspaper that reported on the meteorite that hit a remote part of that country last week has a follow-up article, complete with a photo of the impact site. It looks like the comparison to the Hiroshima bomb was probably an over-estimation: Truls Lynne Hansen of the Northern Lights Observatory (Nordlysobservatoriet) in Tromsø disputes …
More photos here. More on the mushrooms of Saskatchewan here.
I get a lot of hits on my main website to my column(s) on water desalination. I may have to revisit the topic soon, according to an article in Technology Review: “A water desalination system using carbon nanotube-based membranes could significantly reduce the cost of purifying water from the ocean. The technology could potentially provide …
…you might want to try to get hold of this research device: A minority of people with autism have one or more extraordinary intellectual talents, such as the rapid ability to calculate the day of the week for a given date, or to count large numbers of discrete objects almost instantaneously – they’re often called …
…that this pans out: “A compound that prevents and reverses Alzheimer’s disease in lab mice is starting early drug safety trials in humans.”
I received another very nice blurb today for the cover of the DAW paperback of my novel Lost in Translation coming out this October: In Ed Willett’s universe, greed and intrigue aren’t unique to humankind, and humans and S’sinn aliens are the stuff of each others’ nightmares. One human and one S’sinn, called to translate …
I’m Very Glad That I’m A Leaf I’m very glad that I’m a leaf.I flutter and I fly,And when I have to go awayI never say goodbye. –Alice Willett, not-quite 5 P.S. A note from the author: “That last bit is kind of sad.”
More photos here.
The amazing winners of the 2996 Art of Science Competition at Princeton University are now online. Enjoy!
Just a little one, only equivalent in force to the Hiroshima bomb. UPDATE: Here’s a follow-up post.
From Wired:“Brian Walker plans to shoot himself nearly 20 miles into the air aboard a homemade rocket launched from what could be the world’s largest crossbow.” He thinks it could start a whole new sport of extreme skydiving. Personally, I think I’ll just watch.
…unless you do it without touching the keyboard.
