Playground physics

It’s spring, the time when a young girl’s (or boy’s) heart turns to thoughts of…swings, slides, and merry-go-rounds. At least, that’s the case with the young girl I know best, my daughter Alice, who has been talking about playgrounds ever since the snow started melting. I’m sure her desire to visit one is all part …

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SF headline of the day…

From Reuters: Mars Travel Hazard: Electric Mini-Tornadoes.

Testing relativity

It took 40 years–but it’s up!

Low-Calorie Diet May Lengthen Life

Well, at least it will feel longer…

All shook up

Has the “holy grail” of earthquake prediction been discovered?

Way to go Ray!

Ray Bradbury speaks words of sense to a presidential commission reviewing George W. Bush’s proposal for returning humans to the moon and advancing on to human exploration of Mars.

Opportunity gets lucky again

Seems a new rock Opportunity has found on Mars has cosmic portent.

I’m top of the chart!

How can I not point you to The Geek Hierarchy, when I qualify for the pinnacle of geekdom as identified thereon?

25 GB of storage…on a disk made of paper

This is not only cool technology, it’s environmentally friendlier.

"Smart gun" technology getting closer

This week’s most SFnal story (so far, at least): this one about imimplanting chips in the hands of police so that only they can fire their weapons…

Flower power

Ah, spring! What better time to celebrate flower power? The use of flowers for gifts and decoration has a long history (the ancient Romans and the Chinese were wild about roses), but to a plant our infatuation might seem a little kinky: flowers are plants’ reproductive organs. Or, to be more precise, they’re the reproductive …

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Shania’s home town being devoured!

It’s true! A giant sinkhole is swallowing cars near downtown Timmins. A punishment, perhaps?