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, …
I’m not sure I understand this, which says light as we know it may be a direct result of small violations of relativity, but it sure sounds cool.
Remember those invasions of giant ants triggered by nuclear testing in the 1950s, chronicled in classic documentaries like Them? Now global warming threatens invasions of…smaller-than normal ants. But what they lack in size, they’ll make up for in quantity.
NASA is using high-tech sensors to develop human-shaped robot astronauts called Robonauts.
Have you heard of Ward Churchill? Count yourself lucky if you haven’t. For some reason, he was invited to speak in North Battleford on Saturday. (Yes, yes, I know, second anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War–what I mean is, I don’t understand the reason for inviting someone whose views are the intellectual equivalent of, …
Is that bottle of wine really what the label says it is? Not always, apparently. Enter Patrice This, a grape geneticist at the University of Montpellier, France, has his way. He and his team are trying to perfect the extraction and purification of grape-skin DNA from bottles of wine.
The Christian Science Monitor’s Shannon Roe revisits some tips from the great Isaac Asimov on how to be a prolific writer. Note, that’s “prolific,” not “good.” As Asimov is quoted in the article: “I can’t tell you how to be a good writer because nobody ever says that I’m a good writer. It’s always ‘prolific …
Here’s an interesting article about immigrants from warm countries who have moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta to work in the oil industry. I wouldn’t say you never get used to the cold. After 38 years here (this August), this transplanted Texas boy has pretty much acclimated. Well, almost.
An Antarctic iceberg the size of Luxembourg is once more adrift after being grounded for two months.
