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February 3, 2009
February 21, 2008
Not Quite Westinghouse Material
Dating myself with the title there. Here are some hilarious posters given by budding scientists. You have to start somewhere. I’m curious about “Garlic: The Silent Killer.”
September 28, 2007
The Information Challenge
Richard Dawkins takes on a swindling creationist and ends up writing a brilliant essay on information theory and genetics.
August 8, 2007
Laser fun time
Check out a great home project in the dangerous science category: making your own hand held burning laser.
July 24, 2007
Free Energy
I remember throughout my youth hearing how solar energy would someday take over if only they could improve the efficiency of the panels. Turns out they are getting very efficient, very quickly.
February 25, 2007
Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings Time starts early this year (and in subsequent years.) Spring ahead, fall back, but exactly when: March 11th to be precise. Learn about the hows and whys of this strange invention.
February 9, 2007
Molecular Gastronomy, Part II
While I’m at it, I might as well point you to two very interesting molecular gastronomy source. The first is a collaborative recipe wiki, the FoodHacking wiki (nascent, but looks promising.) The second is a very nice set of resource links to various sites on the subject of molecular gastronomy, it’s practicioners, etc.
Molecular Gastronomy isn’t really something new, food scientists (or flavorists) have been doing weird things to our food for decades now. Seaweed and other assorted ‘gums’ seem to make a lot of appearances.
Albert Adria vs. the frat-boys
(stupidity, or molecular gastronomy?)
February 6, 2007
Insanity
Don’t believe Republicans are contrary to reason and our Congress is batshit insane? Check out this poll. Only 13% of the Republicans polled believe that global warming is man-made.
January 17, 2007
EDGE of existence
Help save some the earth’s most evolutionarily diverse and globally endangered species. That is, if they are still around; number 1 on the list, the Yangtze River Dolphin is probably already extinct.