By which the discoverer means, a planet with more than one sun: in this case, three. It’s the size of Jupiter and orbits its main sun, a star much like our own, in just three and a half days, which means its very, very close, which means…well, in short, you thought Tatooine looke inhospitable, you …
If that’s not a headline that would have made no sense at all just a few years ago, I don’t know what one would be. Technovelgy.com has the goods. Everyone repeat after me: “Hey hey, ho ho, those dead-tree books have got to go. Hey hey, ho ho, those dead-tree books have got to go…”
Check out the fascinating research currently underway in the burgeoning (but extremely relaxed) field of fatigued feline functionality. (Via Transterrestrial Musings.)
Be this wreckage that of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge? ‘Tis looking most promising, most promising indeed.
Purdue University researchers have new evidence that confirms previous findings of thermonuclear reactions in a tabletop apparatus. This could be big…er, small.
While ego-Googling (or, actually, Yahooing) images earlier today, I came across this. Some day, I’m going to either begin collecting the previous Edward Willett’s books, or else writing new stories to go with all his great titles. I mean, who doesn’t want to read a story called “Alone on the Plains: or, The She Eagle’s …
Wish I could be there for this: “The Royal Shakespeare Company in Britain will embark on a year-long project to stage every play, sonnet and poem ever written by William Shakespeare.”
…and you’re likely to find another study that refines or contradicts it. So says (what else?) a new study. The moral? Don’t put all your eggs (whether you think they’re bad for you or good for you, high in cholesterol or a great source of protein) in one study’s basket…even if it’s made out of …
I like meat, but I know there are problems with the way we produce, package and consume it. Wouldn’t it be great if we could enjoy meat without having to grow and butcher animals to get it? Well, maybe we can. The first peer-reviewed discussion of the prospects for creating “cultured meat” on an industrial …
…and, selfishly, all I can think of is that my book on Alzheimer’s Disease is becoming progressively more out of date. Hmmm. Or should that be “regressively” more out of date? English is such a peculiar language…
Apropos of my previous discussions of future energy sources, here’s an interesting new approach to the production of hydrogen…with some appropriate “maybe-hydrogen-isn’t-the-fuel-of-the-future-after-all” skepticism along the way.
It’s not the reason it’s going, but in 2008 NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will photograph old Apollo landing sites. Which, of course, will prove nothing to wacked-out conspiracy theorists, but who cares?
