I just listened to this epidsode of a podcast that I like a lot; Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive. In this episode, several people are interviewed about things relating to the topic. Here’s some of the things that they discuss:…
Atlanta-Area Folks: Star-Gazing at Emory This Friday
From a mailing list I’m on. Sounds fun, although I can’t remember what else is happening in our lives this Friday. Obviously, it’s open to the public, or it wouldn’t have been sent to the list I’m on 🙂 Cyn…
Go Watch the Sunset Tonight
Space Weather News for Sept. 6, 2005 SUNSET PLANETS: On Tuesday, Sept. 6th–that’s today–the crescent moon will leap up from the glare of the Sun to join Venus and Jupiter in the western sky at sunset. It’s going to be…
Time Travel Closer?
Realistic Time Machine? The laws of physics seem to allow time travel, but no one has had much hope of building an actual time machine because it would take such exotic conditions and materials. Now, physicist Amos Ori of the…
Like Paper Airplanes?
Check out Amazing Paper Airplanes and Flight 2.0. I’ve never made one myself, but they look cool.
Hobbits?
Scientists uncover possible new species of human Dwarf skeleton is 18,000 years old Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Posted: 7:09 PM EDT (2309 GMT) (AP) — In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered…
Artificial Retinas
Is this not amazing? From Future Brief In the mid-1980s, neuroophthalmologist Joseph Rizzo III was researching retinal transplants to restore blind people’s vision. One day, removing a lab animal’s retina, a tissue-thin membrane that lines the back of the eyeball’s…
35-Year-Old Cutting Edge Science Experiment
NASA Science News for July 20, 2004 A cutting-edge Apollo 11 science experiment is still running today, 35 years after astronauts left it behind in the Sea of Tranquility.
YAY!
Private craft soars into space, history MOJAVE, California (CNN) — SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind on Monday morning and made its indelible entry in the history books as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space. It touched down…
Hello Thursday
Awe-inspiring: Rainbow Spectrum Photo For fun: Gay Marriage is For the Birds I just did a massive reduction on my LJ reading list again. I cannot keep up with it, so communities, feeds, and people were cut. Please don’t take…