Given that the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon produces light a million times brighter than the sun, you might well expect to be able to see it at night even from Regina. Or, upon visiting it in winter, you might think you would find thousands of sun-starved Saskatchewanians lying all around it on beach-towels in the snow, …
When we get to Mars, we’ll need better space suits than the ones used by Apollo astronauts. Slim new designs are now being tested.
Given that the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon produces light a million times brighter than the sun, you might well expect to be able to see it at night even from Regina. Or, upon visiting it in winter, you might think you would thousands of sun-starved Saskatchewanians lying all around it on beach-towels in the …
Scientists believe they have detected the signature of collisions between the Earth and strangelets, clumps of matter made up of quarks–including “strange quarks,” normally only seen in particle accelerators. (Via Instapundit.)
…is online here, and it’s very funny. Wish I could have been there! (Thanks to Derryl Murphy for pointing this out.)
…to get one of these: a cell phone that looks just like a Star Trek communicator. (Via A Writer’s Life.)
Running to the Light Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. My daughter Alice, balloons, sunlight streaming across Wascana Park just after a rainshower…how could you not take a photo?
Architecture Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. …like the Conservatory of Performing Arts and Music just across the street from us here in Regina. Tonight the sun emerged briefly just around sunset to light it up most dramatically.
Author Mark Helprin, quoted in the Washington Post: “The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.’” …
This is intriguing: a new nasal vaccine that clears neuron-destroying beta amyloid plaques from the brains of affected mice will be tested in humans in 2006. Keep your fingers crossed…
A new study reveals that a majority of scientists believe in God. That holds true across all disciplines, although scientists in the social sciences are more likely to believe in God than those in the natural sciences. For example, around 41 percent of biologists don’t believe in God, but only 27 percent of political scientists …
This is cool. Regender.com takes any Web site you want to run through it and changes the sexes around–replacing names it recognizes as masculine with feminine ones, and vice versa, changing pronouns, etc. Does it make a difference? Depends on the site. It sure makes you think, though! My own site, once regendered, identifies me …
