Not very productive, these last two days. Tuesday I got very little done because I had one of those eye exams where they dilate your pupils–which meant, I discovered, while I could read text on the 19-inch desktop computer monitor, I couldn’t read it on my laptop when I took it down to Second Cup …
Not very productive, these last two days. Tuesday I got very little done because I had one of those eye exams where they dilate your pupils–which meant, I discovered, while I could read text on the 19-inch desktop computer monitor, I couldn’t read it on my laptop when I took it down to Second Cup …
NASA has begun preliminary work on a new moonship. Yay!
Actually, it sounds more like horror: “The bizarre case of the bone-eating worms.” These are worms that dine on whalebone. The females never leave once they dig into a bone; the males never taste the bone, because they live inside the females. This world of ours is a strange and fascinating place indeed.
This excellent (and long!) article from the Hudson Review, written by Bruce Bawer, explores European anti-Americanism through a survey of recent books on the topic. I highly recommend it.
The U.S. announces plans to work with at least seven other coutnries to harvest methane emissions as fuel, reducing global-warming pollution. Of course, that’s instead of, not in addition to, working harder to limit carbod dioxide emissions, so there’s still a ways to go, but it’s a grand idea, nonetheless.
The SpaceShipOne team has given its official 60-day notice and scheduled its first X-prize competition flight for September 29–and the Da Vinci Project has announced it will roll out its completed Wildfire spacecraft on August 5 in Toronto, and is still looking toward launches this fall–at Kindersley, right here in Saskatchewan. Cool!
Having prepared my science column for online subscribers and the Leader Post last night, today was devoted to tech-editing of a computer book for Wiley. Fortunately, it’s very clean (written by someone who knows far more about the topic than I do!) and I had very few comments to make, so I managed to get …
It’s a picture of Saturn’s moon Mimas from Cassini-Huygens…we hope.
Today was a science column day; the column (on rogue waves) is already online below. Best thing about it on the radio today was that the crack CBC Afternoon Edition team had the wit to play There’s Got to Be a Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure following the segment! Spent the afternoon tech-editing three …
Lots of people who are afraid to fly think nothing of taking long ocean cruises. They might think again in the wake of the European Space Agency’s report this week that rogue waves are far more common than anyone ever expected. Rogue waves are monster, ship-smashing walls of water that rise to seemingly impossible heights, …
Check out this interview with legendary science fiction writer Dr. Jack Williamson, from this morning’s Morning Edition program on CBC Radio One in Saskatchewan.
