Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa’s Leaning Tower Professor John Burland has spent the last two decades striving to save – and understand – the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After defying gravity, Italian bureaucracy and accusations of corruption, it seems he’s finally cracked the case. via Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa’s Leaning Tower – […]
This excerpt from Pat Sajak’s essay on Ricochet.com yesterday, h/t to Planet Gore Manmade global warming, like so many other social and economic issues, has become hopelessly politicized. Each side has dug in its heels and has accused the other of acting irresponsibly and dishonestly. For the believers, the other side has become the equivalent […]
The low down overview and summary of what Caffeine actually does to your Brain chemistry… via What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain.
How long would we have if the Sun “went out” today? Â Well, Starts with a Bang, the science blog, covers this… And they even figured a way to bring the Incredible Hulk into the question…. Q & A: How long would we have if the Sun went out? : Starts With A Bang.
This is in the Cellar of the department of Nuclear Chemistry in Chalmers, Gothenburg… I wonder what Supervillains were made here… (This all was found on RPG.net) Also, that is very Chalmers. I still remember the time we almost couldn’t perform our supercooled matter/magnetic levitation experiment because some grad students had used all the liquid […]
From Slashdot… Large Dangerous Rocket Ships [discovery.com] Science Channel (USA) July 5th, 9 PM eastern time. The (legendary)Â Rocket Manual For Amateurs [4shared.com] is online as a PDF. What the heck, grab a PDF of the LONG out of print Golden Book of Chemistry [about.com] while you’re at it. Hey, kids! Set up your OWN chemistry […]
Amy Okuda (“The Guild”) flies to Saturn to observe a new giant ring around the planet: the largest ring ever discovered in our Solar System, but one that was only recently revealed through infrared observations by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2009. While there, she and Irwin — voiced by Wil Wheaton (“Star Trek: the […]