Here’s this week’s science column… SCIENCE Edward Willett CES 2004: A Gadget Odyssey I’ve always been a gadget guy, so I would have been in heaven at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where gadgets from the way cool to the way weird were on display. Alas, I didn’t get to attend, but …
My year-old column about drilling on Mars got linked to by Instapundit, and I can already see the results on the page’s hit counter…. Cool!
I’ve always been a gadget guy, so I would have been in heaven at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where gadgets from the way cool to the way weird were on display. Alas, I didn’t get to attend, but here are some of the highlights, gleaned from the extensive coverage atPCWorld.com. If …
I thope this is true–and that it actually leads to something.
Here’s this week’s science column: ***** SCIENCE By Edward Willett Each year, Discover Magazine creates a list of the top 100 science stories of that year. This year’s list is especially exciting for the University of Saskatchewan, because one project conducted at the University and another involving a U. of S. professor were on the …
Here’s this week’s science column, just a trifle later than usual… SCIENCE Edward Willett Why we make mistakes The holidays are supposed to be a time of rest and relaxation, but if you’re like me, after several nights of parties, you feel pretty much as sleep-deprived as you did before the holidays, if not more …
Australian astronomers have created the first tentative map of the Galactic Habitable Zone.
This excellent article makes the point that to deal with the future, we need citizens who are scientifically literate–and few are.
Everyone has different holiday traditions–and almost all of them involve food. You will therefore be as relieved to discover as I was that science is doing its best to ensure that our holiday favorites continue to delight us. The Sensory Analysis Lab at the Prince Edward Island Food Technology Centre has helped insure that islanders’ …
With luck, on Christmas Day, we’ll be able to say “The Beagle has landed!”.
I’ve read so much garbage about Tolkien’s work somehow glorifying war, garbage that ignores the fact that Tolkien fought in the trenches in the First World War and lost all but one of his closest childhood friends there. This columnist gets it right.
The first privately built piloted, rocket-powered craft broke the sound barrier on its maiden flight. Next destination, space?
