Down in Mexico, they’re usingrobot patients to train doctors. (Via MedGadget.)
The end of the jukebox musical?
My wife and I (like millions of other people) really enjoyed the ABBA tribute musical Mamma Mia. But in the wake of high-profile failures of shows based on the music of John Lennon and The Beach Boys (among others) it appears the brief era of the “jukebox musical” may be coming to an end.
This could really suck…
…but in the case of a musical about Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat, maybe that’s a good thing.
The X Prize: What are the "losers" up to?
Robin Snelson answers a question I’ve had for some time with an article in The Space Review about the “X Prize losers,” the teams that were in the race, at least on paper, but were beat out by the much-better-funded SpaceShip One bunch. Of particular interest: “The da Vinci Project has been keeping a low …
Using viruses to grow a battery
MIT material scientist and engineer Angela Belcher and her team are figuring out how to use viruses to grow rechargeable batteries. They mix bacteriophages (viruses that normally infect bacteria) with various materials. The bacteriophages self-assemble themselves, and the materials, in orderly layers. The same technique may be able to make everything from solar cells to …
No one likes me here, but I’m big in Norway
For some reason, I have (or, rather, this blog has) been getting visitor after visitor in the last week or so from Norway–specifically, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I have no idea why, unless it’s because of the recent spate of Banff pictures (the posting of photos and the surge of Norwegian …
Termination shock confirmed
Voyager 1, scientists have confirmed, crossed the termination shock (a shock wave in the solar wind that marks its slowing from supersonic to subsonic speed) on December 16 and is now sending back the first information ever of the helisheath, a transition region at the edge of the solar system. Voyager 1 is expected to …
The last photo from Banff…this time
Here (and in the previous few posts) are the final pictures of Banff I’ll be posting this time around. I end with a photo of the Banff Springs Hotel, because this is where my wife and daughter and I will be returning to at the end of October for the International Wine and Food Festival. …
"Why, man, he doth bestride the world like a colossus…"
Here I am, with the Bow Falls in the background. The rather odd perspective is caused by the fact that I set the camera on a low rock and used the timer to take the picture. I’m not really a giant that makes even the grandest of natural wonders look small.
The Bow River Valley
The Bow River valley, from just downstream of the Bow Falls.
Hold on
A tree clings to the edge of Banff’s Bow Falls.
Random beauty
Blue mountains, yellow leaves, black branches: autumn in Banff.
My latest live walk and vlog
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