Category Archives: Technology

Voices from the past

Recently, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has resurrected a very old recording from 1878. Not the oldest recording ever (dating from 1860), but it seems the oldest in the States. PBS has a nice, although long-winded, segment on it, after the / read more…

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“Hello, this is Antarctica calling”

Most of you are probably aware of the Arecibo observatory, world’s largest single-dish radio telescope. Constructed in a natural valley in Puerto Rico, it is still one of the work horses in radio astronomy. But a proposal from 1960, which / read more…

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2012 predictions in technology – psychic or science?

At year’s end it is kind of skeptical tradition to go over various psychic predictions for that year. Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast does it, and invariably these predictions are either super-wrong or the prediction was so vague to / read more…

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12.27.2012

by Brian Hudson

Kickstarting Skepticism

Here on the blog we recently covered some woo-themed Kickstarter projects. That got me to thinking: what sort of skeptical Kickstarter projects are out there? Kickstarter is the “in thing” right now for funding small and ambitious projects. Surely, some / read more…

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12.25.2012

by Mike Weaver

Cool New Motorcycle Helmet Technology

A small company in California, 6D Helmets, has unveiled some interesting new technologies in motorcycle helmets. As a long time dirt and street motorcyclist, this caught my attention. Let’s take a look at their new tech and how it works / read more…

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A Speck in the Eye

Imagine always having your computer with you. No I don’t mean the latest smart phone that is in your pocket. Really with you … as in your eye. Or more precisely as a lens on your eyeball. Last year there / read more…

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Amazing Satellite Photography

… but not from Earth. This photo has been doing the rounds of the (astronomy) news sites, but it simply is too good not to mention it here. The Cassini mission has spotted this likeliness of the Nile river on / read more…

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12.7.2012

by Dani Johnson

Voyage to the End of the Solar System – NASA’s Voyager Mission.

The most difficult limitation to overcome in space science is distance. Without going into all the details on distance, the distances in our universe are incredibly vast and reach way beyond anything we can possibly imagine. The biggest thing that / read more…

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12.6.2012

by Brian Hudson

The Gullibility of Facebook

A couple of weeks ago I brought up the story of the Michigan cougar, and a trail cam photograph of said beastie taken in June of this year. As it turns out, it didn’t take long before the trail cam / read more…

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11.10.2012

by Jon Connell

Flipped off by cosmic rays: A Strange love: Space Invaders and how I learned to loathe my phone

Ever pick up your phone – or any piece of computer equipment for that matter, start to do whatever it was that you planned to do and suddenly – BAM! the thing just sits there dumb as a bag of / read more…

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