Researchers at Dartmouth University have created the world’s smallest untethered, controllable robot: about as wide as a strand of hair, and half the length of, say, a period in 12-point Times New Roman. Or, to put it another way, about 200 of them could fit in line across a plaine M&M–even more across a peanut …
rooftops Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. This photo tickles me because there is nothing in it that could not have been seen in just this way 75 years ago. That’s the Hotel Saskatchewan in the background and Blessed Sacrament Church in the foreground; both bits of old Regina still preserved in new Regina.
reflections Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. Often when I activate my photographer’s eye, I see abstract patterns that capture my fancy–like this one, a reflection of the windows of one office building in the windows of another.
oldnew Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. I like the contrast between old and new in this photo from downtown Regina.
flowerbed Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. This is a flower bed in Central Park. (No, not that Central Park–this one just across the street from our condo complex in Regina.) I’ve walked by it for weeks now meaning to take a picture or two; this morning, I finally got around to it.
berrybee Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. I took a walk around Wascana Lake this morning taking some “artistic photos,” as I rather egotistically like to call them. One was of a mountain ash (I think) with lots of red berries on display. I took a close-up of the berries–and only discovered when I looked at …
We in the 21st century have a deplorable tendency at times to look down on those who lived in centuries preceding ours as primitive, ignorant people. No, I’m not talking about those poor benighted souls of the late, unlamented 20th century (especially since I was one of them). I’m thinking of a bit further back—say, …
Well, this is good news! An astronomer has calculated that there are seven times fewer comets in our solar system than previously thought, and thus the chances of us being wiped out by a collision with a “continent-busting” comet are also less than previously thought; such a thing probably only happens once every 150 million …
I realize it’s just another sign of my advancing codgerdom, but it annoys me to see people walking around wearing headphones or earpods. I gave the original Walkman a try, back in the day, and found I hated being cut off from the world that way. I keep expecting to hear about a huge upswing …
This cool little device is a handheld storm detector that detects thunderstrom activity up to 75 miles away, calculates the distance, displays warning information, and continously monitors the storm, providing updates every 15 seconds on distance, approach speed, intensity and ETA. Anyone who works or plays in the great outdoors could use something like this. …
…contained in this article from The Guardian. Science is done by scientists, who write it up. Then a press release is written by a non-scientist, who runs it by their non-scientist boss, who then sends it to journalists without a science education who try to convey difficult new ideas to an audience of either lay …
Giant walk-through colon tours Canada.
