Hi,

Math and doodle games:

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Her channel has a few others including a video about doodling infinite camels (also, Sierpinski's Elephants).

later
Tom

Hi,

IO9.com has a lengthy and fascinating excerpt from Cordelia Fine's new book Delusions of Gender. A book where she reviews the popular literature about the differences between the brains of men and women and finds that what gets written doesn't tend to square up much with the studies they cite ( Read more... )

Duh! You'd gain superpowers! Right?:

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(There are additional physics questions, but the hand in the HPL beam is up first and probably the most interesting)

later
Tom

Hi,

Tired of drinking 600 cups of joe to get you going every day?

Perhaps you should try The Black Blood of the Earth! It's a cold steeped, triple vacuum extraction distillate of pure coffee essence. Estimates are that 100ml of this stuff is caffeine equivalent to a gallon of coffee.

so have just the one, eh?
Tom

And then we can put SID on-line!


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Radioactive Wild Boars on the rise in Germany

And once boars get radioactive you know what comes next...


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Answering the big questions.

later
Tom

Hey,

An interesting article on the spread of small, home-use biogas systems in south-central Asia and how it could be a valuable contribution to helping improve the lives of Afghans. It's not clear how much water this process takes and if that would make the system impractical for Afghanistan, but these are the kinds of smart systems that I ( Read more... )

Hey,

Although there's a lot of interesting news in this listing of current space exploration missions this is the thing that really caught my eye:

"Finally, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft were still responding to commands from Earth as of March 10."

Um...wow.

later
Tom

Hi,


ABSTRACT: We investigate whether it is physically possible to build starships
or power plants using the Hawking radiation of an artificial black hole as a power
source. The proposal seems to be at the edge of possibility, but quantum gravity
effects could change the picture.

I'm sure my physics friends can demolish this one, but it makes for ( Read more... )