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Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Monday, January 18, 2016

Where the Wild Things Are

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Book cover, Wikipedia (fair use) *** Maurice Sendak , author of the children's book  Where the Wild Things Are , was an illustrat...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Science: 4 new elements found

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Periodic Table with new elements, 2016, Science Alert *** News coming across the virtual wire is Four new elements confirmed . The nu...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

DIY: turtle play

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"Turtle draw" by Valiant Technology Ltd, Wikipedia *** According to the Wikipedia article on Turtle (robot) , we've be...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Psych: romance and choice

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Breathless Books , Assent Publishing *** It's likely you don't choose a romantic partner the same way you choose a car. True?...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Cities lost to the sea

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Cities captured by the waves and drawn to a watery death captivate the imagination. Where once people bustled about their daily tasks, recl...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Science: the flux we live in

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Magnetar SGR 1745-525, NASA-Chandra *** On May 16th NASA issued a press release reporting that a magnetar near a supermassive black ...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

DIY: add flowers to that salad

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Eating Dandelions, Indiana Public Media *** In this era of trying to control one's weight, salads are a primary feature of many m...
Monday, March 09, 2015

Is it lust, love, natural selection, or just spring?

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Jacques-Louis David , " The Love of Helen and Paris ," Wikipedia *** An old saw now, Tennyson's assertion in "Loc...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

DIY: just say no to a dysfunctional Christmas

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Jen from Sales: "That guy in Engineering gave me this bracelet for Christmas... I think it's expensive!" Lisa, also in Sale...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Science: the black hole conundrum

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A high resolution mid-infrared picture taken of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals details about dust swirling into the black hol...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Science: Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works

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Compact fusion reactor, photo by Eric Schulzinger for Lockheed Martin, Aviation Week *** The scientific community's reception of ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

DIY: Synth

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*** To be up front, music is not my forte (pun intended). And synth, aka  synthesizer , is a complex topic with a number of different ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Science: combing the universe for planets

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David A Aguilar (CfA), hypothetical world with 2 moons, UniverseToday *** That's right, literally combing with an astro-comb to...
Monday, October 13, 2014

So what's so special about a blue LED?

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Steve Woodward, Child studying by solar light, ABC.net.au *** One of this year's Nobel prizes was awarded to the Japanese invento...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Science: A warp bubble drive for interstellar travel

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USS Enterprise at warp (Paramount Pictures/CBS Studios), Universe Today *** To travel beyond our solar system and flyby the nearest s...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

DIY: Citizen science games

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After stumbling across Eyewire --a game that maps the brain--the other day, I began wondering how many science projects there are for ordin...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Making a movie with CGI

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Take for example Guardians of the Galaxy , which cost $170 million to make.  Watching the credits, I was amazed and mystified to see how ma...