I came across an article from Stanford University News, that indicates radioactive decay rates may not be the universal constant they are believed to be. In fact, they may not only vary, they may actually be influenced by our own sun.
I haven’t had much time to post of late, preferring to spend it reading a new series. I did see this article today about the “underwater oil plume” that scientists have confirmed to exist from that BP well which I felt deserved a quick post. The sheer scope of the oil plume boggles the mind. [...]
I came across an article yesterday on IBM’s new supercomputer, Watson. This computer has been trained to play Jeopardy!. Yes, you read that correctly, it can play the TV “phrase your answer in the form of a question” game. And it plays it pretty well for a machine.
I read today that President Obama submitted his budget and I was saddened to see that he cut NASA’s funding for the return to the moon. I understand that the country’s out of money, and that there are programs that benifit other things but I think people tend to underestimate the science return that NASA [...]
No, this post isn’t some type of Journey retrospective. It’s about some odd event that occurred over the skies of Norway last night. Details are still rather sketchy at this point but that something odd happened cannot be denied. Something odd enough to perk even my overly-jaded interest.
No, this isn’t a post about a David Bowie song. I saw an article at SkyAndTelescope.com today about an unknown stellar event that was recorded back in 2006 with the Hubble Space Telescope. After all this time you’d think the astronomers would have seen all there is to see in the night sky. Nature, it seems, [...]
I don’t watch much news, but it seems like I should have seen some coverage about this story. If it is to be believed, the University of Alberta has found a potential cure for many types of cancer including lung, breast and brain cancers. Why am I seeing debates in the news about whether or [...]
A year ago, I was totally blown away by Microsoft’s Photosynth application. It was a proof of concept program, basically, that showed how a computer could take a group of unrelated photos of a given object and use them to construct a 3-D “tour” of the object. It was pretty damn cool. I must have [...]
I saw an article over on Cracked.com today about five scientific theories that “will make your head explode.” Before you click the link to the article, be warned that as this is cracked.com the language is a bit coarse and the pictures are a bit graphic.
I’m back to the “alternative energy for cars” bandwagon today. What prompted my bandwagon ride today is a video link I saw on reddit that showed a hydrogen-powered car plugged by Jack Nicholson of all people. What killed me is the video is from 1978. Thirty freakin’ years ago they were working on Hydrogen powered cars [...]
