This doesn't quite fit into that category though ( Read more... )

Meet Space Station’s Small Satellite Launcher Suite

I'm following the cubesat phenomenon with a mild obsession -- it just seems elegant to me. Between this and the CAT propulsion project, I'm looking forward to a lot more space-based observation and experimentation.

Jane Goodall turned 80 today.

Atchoo

Google Flu Trends Is Wrong. A Lot."I know we bang the drum of transparency a lot around here, but if this map is truly meant in service of the public good, Google should at least provide academics a peek under the hood. The better the public understands how this data is gathered and processed, the better we can understand why it provides ( Read more... )

A graphic showing asteroids discovered by time, circling the sun.

Note that the sparse beginning starts at 1980. Not 1920, 1980. Then see how the area past Mars goes from "speckled" to "smeared". Not to mention the rapid increase of dots intersecting Earth's orbit. The narration gives some details as to why.

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CATs in Space!

It looks like the Kickstarter campaign CAT: Launch a Water-Propelled Satellite into Deep Space, a project to fund a propulsion system for cubesats, will be more that successfully funded in a little over thirteen hours ( Read more... )

Dr. Curtis Cooper has found the 48th Mersenne (and largest known so far) prime: 257,885,161-1.

It's been a while.

There is an International Guild of Knot Tyers.

Found out due to links to their forum, where a post on NASA's knots in the Mars Rover Curiosity may be found.

Lest anyone think I'm mocking, I'll just admit right now that I own a copy of The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao.

UCLA astronomers at Keck Observatory discover pivotal star to test Einstein’s theory.

I heard of it on a BBC broadcast a half hour ago, here it is: More evidence of supermassive black hole (in our galaxy) (audio).

"... all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell"

Dr. Paul Broun would like to say a few words:

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