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.
Check out this incredible photo essay from someone who stayed in New Orleans during the hurricane and the flooding (and then made it safely out to Texas). (Via By the Way.)
…with this high-tech backpack that creates electricity while you hike, and is more comfortable than a regular backpack, to boot.
A new use for unpublished manuscripts and unproduced screenplays. (Via Roger L. Simon.)
Here’s an interesting overview of where nanotechnology might take us–sooner than anyone thinks.
That’s the promise of Ultrafast Electron Microscopy. What’s it good for? Listen to organic chemist Derek Lowe: “We’d be able to see catalyst molecules moving and rearranging as they do their work, and watch the shifting environment of metal atoms inside enzyme active sites. Subtle changes in crystal structures, happening too fast for us to …
In the category of “Someone I’ve Never Heard of Whose Work I’ve Long Admired,” I give you Bob Peak. Check out the movie poster gallery in particular. From Camelot to My Fair Lady to The Black Stallion to Star Trek: The Motion Picture…almost every movie I remember fondly from my peak movie-going years (i.e., before …
Man, how cool is this? A live camera at a watering hole in Botswana. Amazing. And more interesting than at least 75 percent of what’s on TV! (Via Cold Ground.)
I haven’t posted much the last couple of days as I worked to polish off my children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix… Which (ta-da!) I have done! Yay! Now I can worry about all those other deadlines rushing my way…
