Literally a revolutionary bridge in this case–i.e., not a bridge that revolutionized engineering, or anything like that, but a bridge that was built by continental soldiers during the American Revolution. I’d not heard of it before. Sometimes I wish I wrote a history column instead of a science column–my favorite part of researching many of …
Here’s the official CBC Web site for the new Doctor Who series, premiering in North America on Tuesday, April 5, at 8 p.m. on CBC TV. I’m pumped!
Nanoscale polymer beads, first developed as sensors to explore and monitor cellular processes, now hold promise for diagnosing and treating cancer. Excellent news, bravo, etc. But that’s not the main reason I’m blogging about it. I was just taken with the acronym they come up with for these little beads: PEBBLEs. Catchy, eh? It stands …
Here’s a gorgeous site dedicated to a century of American illustration. Beautiful! I found it through Althouse.
Scientists have discovered soft tissue preserved in a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil bone. Amazing!
Following in the footprints of the X-Prize, NASA has announced its first Centennial Challenges. The Tether Challenge calls on inventors to create a material light enough and strong enough to be part of space elevators. The Beam Power Challenge is designed to encourage inventors to find a way to wirelessly beam a robot enough power …
Oh, great, I’m writing a book on genetics, and those darn scientists are rewriting the basic laws of inheritance. Can’t they just leave well enough alone? At least until the book is published? (Which may be never, if I don’t pick up the pace…)
A Boston University research team has found evidence that naturally high level of blood cholesterol lead to better mental functioning. At least, right up until you drop dead of a heart attack.
Remember when I blogged about the time the Japanese bombed Saskatchewan? Here’s a story about another wartime Japanese scheme–to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities, using submarine-borne bombers. Seems they’ve found one of the subs. (Nothing ever came of the plan.)
These spoofs of romance novel covers are hilarious.
I start rehearsals this morning for Globe Theatre‘s upcoming production of Twelfth Night, so blogging will be nonexistant during the day and lighter than usual for the next few weeks. But I won’t go away completely…
One of the futuristic inventions of the Star Trek universe is the replicator, a device that can make just about anything: such as “Tea, Earl Gray, Hot.” Replicators aren’t in the offing, but the next best thing is: a self-copying rapid prototyping machine. The idea of a machine that can make a variety of objects, …
