Here’s the original article: Mother Jones notes that in private interviews, Glenn Beck, fiery loon of the right, privately seems to believe in anthropogenic climate change. Last week he mocked climate scientists for being ‘alarmists’ who believe that ‘we’re all going to die in a fiery flood.’ Not long ago he touted the global warming […]
News Flash…. News Flash…. Researchers on Wednesday published a technical paper in the journal Advanced Materials that describes a solar cell made of abundant materials with relatively high efficiency. The cell can convert 9.6 percent of solar energy into electrical energy, a 40 percent boost over current methods. What makes this more remarkable is that […]
Last week there was one critical piece of news: The Lancet, the medical journal that broke the news about the autism-vaccination link, publicly retracted the study due to ethical misconduct and conflicts of interest on the part of the leading researcher. That bears repeating. The study that sparked twelve years of debate about the dangers […]
“n Western films, the gunslinger that draws first always gets shot. This seems like a standard Hollywood trope but it diverted the attention of no less a scientist that Niels Bohr, one of history’s greatest physicists. Taking time off from solving the structure of the atom, Bohr suggested that it takes more time to initiate […]
Astronomers witnessed a supernova in progress, observing jets of material moving at relativistic speeds: up to half the speed of light. Scientist Megan Argo wanted to explain this exciting discovery to the public, so she wrote a Doctor Who story. As the highly technical press release explains, scientists were able to detect ‘relativistic outflow’ in […]
I have a issue with Sleep Apnea, I was diagnosed around 2002 or so… Â For those, unfamiliar with Sleep Apnea, Sleep apnea (or Sleep apnoea) is sleep disorder that causes issues with the Airway closing. Â So they may stop breathing for short periods, often for 10 seconds or more. This means that 3-4 breaths are […]
Mankind makes tools, that is what helps to seperate us from the animals, and other beasts of burden… Â Or at least that is what we tell ourselves… But, has it become that we are so used to new inventions and devices that we are afraid of making our own? Â Or that someone that is an […]
Well, in this post, Monitor Interlacing? What’s the refresh rate, kenneth? I attempted to address the concept of a Monitor’s refresh rate…  But I noticed an odd search request: How Does Reaction time related to Vertical refresh rate For those that missed the earlier post, a Monitor’s refresh rate is a measurement of of the number […]