Here’s a terrific article that takes aim at loony “Shakespeare was anyone but Shakespeare” theorists and clobbers a few other conspiracy theorists, and conspiracy theorizing in general, in the bargain.
Nice comments on Lost in Translation
Hey, this is nice. From the Faster_than_light LiveJournal: “Much more pleasing is Edward Willett’s Lost in Translation, not to be confused with the film of the same name starring Bill Murray. In this book humans and a race of gorgeous little flying creatures called S’sin despise each other with a passion equal to the heat …
Weyburn: the Psychedelic City
LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) has been on my mind recently–not because I’m taking it, I hasten to add, but because I’ve been working on a children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix, who was rather fond of the stuff. Thus I was interested to come across this history of scientific experimentation with LSD…particularly since I already knew, …
This isn’t your granddaddy’s Hindenburg…
…but it is a giant airship. The U.S. Defense Department has handed more than $6 million to Lockheed Martin and Aeros Aeronautical Group to start designing a small version of what they eventually hope will be a giant blimp that can hal 1,800 soldiers and their gear 12,000 nautical miles in less than a week.
Quantum Physics: The Musical
I know nothing about this beyond the press release below, and it’s too far away for me to get to, but it sounds interesting. If you happen to be in the Vancouver area, check it out! ********* Hold onto your seats, get ready to jump into the quantum world on the Space-Time Ship Lollipop with …
Quantum computing now only years away?
That’s what the leading authority on the subject, David Deutsch, now says, and the implications, spelled out nicely by Mike Treder at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology blog, are mind-boggling. Singularity, anyone?
Giant plume of water from Saturnian moon
Four fissures in the south pole of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, are spewing out a plume of water hundreds of kilometre high at a rate of half a tonne a second–a plume that is probably keeping Saturn’s E-ring topped up. ‘Tis a wondrous solar system we live in. We should open it …
Fuel cells for cell phones?
That’s what chemical engineers at Purdue Univesity in West Lafayette, Indiana, have come up with. The days of slowly charging small electronic devices’ fast-dying batteries may be numbered.
A farewell to fogging?
Those of you who don’t wear glasses don’t know how lucky you are. I’ve been a contact-wearer now for many years, but from the time I was about five until I was almost thirty I wore glasses, and I the most annoying thing about them was their inclination to fog up the minute you came …
It’s official!
Tom Cruise is nuts.
Anti-fogging nanoparticles
Those of you who don’t wear glasses don’t know how lucky you are. I’ve been a contact-wearer now for many years, but from the time I was about five until I was almost thirty I wore glasses, and I the most annoying thing about them was their inclination to fog up the minute you came …
Couldn’t happen to a nicer dead guy
George Gershwin tops the list of the richest composers of all time.
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