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Category Archives: Technology
5.10.2013
Going to Mars with MAVEN
The Mars Rovers have shown us that minerals exist on Mars that only form in the presence of water. This discovery confirms the idea that the barren planet used to have potentially life-bearing water on its surface. Right now, the / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Education / Science / Space / Technology
4.28.2013
How an Excel error impacted the world
In 2010, an important economic science paper was published by Reinhart and Rogoff (pdf here). One of their main points was that countries with a public debt above 90% of GDP had a significant lower economic growth rate. They compared data / read more…
Posted in Science / Technology
4.10.2013
So You Want To Go To Mars?
This year, a number of privately run organizations have been publicizing plans for manned missions to Mars, making the Curiosity rover feel undervalued and generally morose. But if you’re like me and you’ve spent a significant amount of time gorging / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Science / Space / Technology / TV & Media
Tagged in Bas Lansdorp / Dennis Tito / Elon Musk / mars
3.24.2013
Colouring the past
“An image is worth more than a thousand words”, so goes the saying. And rightly so. As a history enthusiast I am by default interested in reading reports and descriptions from things longtime past. But I’m most intrigued by photographs that give / read more…
Posted in Science / Technology
3.19.2013
LENR: A bright future? Part 2
It’s time to close out my look at LENR. Join me as we take a look at the Weak Nuclear Force, the Weak Interaction Theory and chase down a few references provided by commenters of the last article.
Posted in Energy / Science / Technology
3.10.2013
Telescope in the sky
Imagine that you can get your hands on a Boeing 747. What would you do? Well, probably not what NASA did: they cut a 10-by-10 foot hole in the back of the airplane, and installed a big telescope in it.
Posted in Science / Space / Technology
3.5.2013
Ghost Illusions From Metamaterials
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have released details from an upcoming paper (to be published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials this month) about using metamaterials to generate controlled “ghost” images of an object. While not yet done / read more…
Posted in Cool Stuff / Science / Technology
2.26.2013
LENR: A bright future? Part 1
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) is the current label used for the troubled concept of cold fusion. Cold fusion was brought into the public conciousness by two scientists, Pons and Fleischmann, who announced directly to the public that they had / read more…
Posted in Energy / Pseudoscience / Science / Technology
Tagged in LENR
2.19.2013
Anti-Viral Ads: HD Vision Sunglasses
Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / read more…
Posted in Technology / TV & Media
Tagged in advertisement / hd / hd vision / silly / sunglasses
2.12.2013
Anti-Viral Ads: DirecTV Genie
Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / read more…
Posted in Technology / TV & Media
Tagged in advertising / cable / DirecTV / DVR / fraction / genie / math / space / tv
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