There’s a science museum close that the wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting several times. We are both geeks and love going to these places. That’s why it was totally awesome to hear about this world touring BBC dinosaur show, “Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular“, that was going [...]
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I’ve always wondered where sounds were engineered / manufactured from. Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory footage. Fig. 1: Technical description. Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.  July 8th, 2009 | Category: scienceIn case you missed it, today’s date can read from 1 to 9, if displayed a certain way. I’m really excited to see The Watchmen this weekend. It’s one of my favorite comic series by far, delving deep into the social and moral underpinnings of a world inhabited by heroes. In many ways it set the bar of character development and comic book writing for generations to come. Although I [...] March 4th, 2009 | Category: scienceA case of mutation with the surprise side effect of enhanced perception. Doctors have studied Nong Youhui’s amazing eyesight since his dad took him to the hospital in Dahua, southern China, concerned over his bright blue eyes. Medical tests conducted in complete darkness show Youhui can [...] A perplexing array of geometry has been located 3.5 miles below the surface of the ocean. Could it be the long lost city heralded in myths of centuries past? Thanks to Google Earth adding new ocean mapping features, the question is now being pursued on a new platform. The satellite image captured from Google Earth The [...] Imagine a future in which everything from cars, to planes, even the monitor you are reading this blog entry…constructed from paper. If the manufacturing process is seen into successful implementation, we could have a material potentially 500 times stronger than steel, and 10 times lighter within our lifetime. Ben Wang, a professor of industrial [...] Here’s a set of lyrics to shift your brain to knots within knots on some fundamentals of chemistry. This would have been choice for those classes in 10th grade if I had to take them over again. Lyrics: Neutron, proton, mass effect, lyrical oxidation, yo irrelevant Food and water. Yeah it’s something we need. What if something cataclysmic where to happen (nuclear winter, asteroid collision, pole shift) and most agriculture was wiped off the face of the map? Not a pleasant thing to hypothetically brood over, but a tangible architectural [...] January 5th, 2009 | Category: scienceTraffic on the highway. Ants in the backyard. Masses of prey fleeing from a predator’s onslaught. We’ve all had the experience of being in crowds, or observed how a group can function as a coherent structure. Mathematician Steven Strogatz posits these questions in more detail pertaining to the natural synchronization that exists all [...] December 13th, 2008 | Category: scienceIf you are out and about tonight and look up at the sky, there is a larger than normal moon. In a rare coincidence, the moon’s perigee has overlapped with the full moon, making it 14% larger and 30% brighter. Some strange lunar facts: The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 [...] As we work to genetically sequence another creature from the extinct past, the reality looms about a Woolly Mammoth’s potential to be in future zoos. This begs to question some ethical issues and what other species we would be tolerant of resurrecting in the same fashion. With this technology implemented, the biological landscape of the [...] November 24th, 2008 | Category: scienceOn Thursday night a huge meteor lit up the night air over Edmonton, Canada. Fortunately, a car with a mounted video camera happened to be driving right towards the impromptu phenomenon and got some great footage of the event. What are the odds of that? SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Scientists say they hope to [...] One of the T-shaped monoliths in Gobelki Tepe, this one bearing a relief of a fox. It’s more than twice as old as the Pyramids, or even the written word. When it was built, saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths still roamed, and the Ice Age had just ended. The elaborate temple at Gobelki Tepe in southeastern [...] Staring at the below picture reminds me of the cauldrons and alchemy of past civilizations. It’s interesting that several other planets in the solar system share the same phenomenon as our own northern lights. That’s something that I would like to see with my own eyes someday. A stunning light display over Saturn has [...] BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb [...] subject "C" is tested to decide whether the individual is "A" or "B" The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably [...] Dubai seems to be ahead of the curve with architecture and urban planning. A thousand years from now, who knows? Perhaps in time our planet will be covered with geometric structures like this. I myself would be interested in seeing the technology on a more modular level, where I could buy a [...] This will a be a milestone when fully developed, but should be developed in caution. My main concern is second generation technology that could evolve from this, such as self-replicating nano-machines. The notion of terminators in the future may be much smaller than we think….. A team of biologists and chemists is closing in [...] The progress of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, has been an interesting one. An air of cautious and excited attitudes have followed the project as it’s evolved through phases of development. There’s been some controversy surrounding the construction of the device, and with a recent breach of helium containment, it will [...] |
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