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Science News: How to use a pulsar to find Starbucks
Cosmic GPS would employ pulsing stars, not satellites, as celestial beacons
By Marissa Cevallos

To find your favorite coffee shop in an unknown city, getting directions via satellite works like a charm. But that technology won’t get you from Earth to Jupiter ( Read more... )

Crossposted to ontd_science.

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The Daily Telegraph (UK): Happy Carl Sagan Day, everybody
By Tom Chivers

It would have been Carl Sagan’s 76th birthday on Tuesday, and his army of nerdish fans around the world have dedicated a day to his memory. It’s today, for some reason, so go and celebrate.

There’s a lot to love about Sagan: a great scientist and great author ( Read more... )

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I never did get around to posting the environmental articles from last week's Overnight News Digest on Daily Kos. Among other reasons, that's because the lead green story was about the Woodward Dream Cruise, which really deserves an entry of its own. As you can see, I haven't gotten around to writing it ( Read more... )

While I've been quite diligent about posting something every day for NaBloPoMo, I haven't been anywhere near as duitful about posting material that fits the theme of "green," even though I actually have quite a bit of it on tap. With that in mind, here are all the "green" news stories I posted in Overnight News Digest on Daily Kos at the beginning ( Read more... )

Getting a Bond Icon (one from the movies, not the books--sorry buongiornodaisy)is enough to make me get an account with advertising so I could expand beyond my current six. However, I'm lazy and don't want to subject my friends to the annoyance.

Back to the topic at hand. Here's a sneak peak at the "Science is Cool" section of the Science Saturday Diary I post at ( Read more... )