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100,000 Calories!
I achieved this milestone on the in-door bike at the gym today! It only took a couple years and sadly, I’m still overweight! If I remember my Chemistry, I have produced enough energy to raise 100,000 grams of water 1° … Continue reading
RIP: Dr. Murray Gell-Mann
Dr. Murray Gell-Mann may not be as famous as Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein or Marie Curie but he was instrumental in furthering our understanding of what the building-blocks of the universe, reality…everything. In 1964 he named these “things” quarks which … Continue reading
Posted in Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Celebrity Obituary, Nobel Prize Winner, Sixties
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1979: The Three Mile Island Disaster
For better or for worse, the accident that happened at this American nuclear power plant changed the country’s opinion about how safe this type of energy generation was. Thanks to TMI (before it became the abbreviation for Too Much Information), … Continue reading
RIP: Dr. Stephen Hawking
One of the greatest living Physicists passed away today and what made Hawking more remarkable is that he pushed on through despite ALS slowly destroying his body. I think he’s one of the longest surviving people to have the disease. … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Celebrity Obituary, Eighties
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A real ET…that’s a rock
Sorry I wasn’t very timely on Oumuamua’s passing by the earth but I was excited about our Astronomers finally discovering and confirming an object passing through our solar system that didn’t originate “here.” According NPR stories, Oumuamua on now hurtling on its … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Stellar Objects
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A candle to protect me from ignorant Trumpanzees
Can’t go wrong with today’s public spokesman for Science and just generally awesome speaker Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He’s another reason why I decided to go back to school, to help communicate harder concepts to others…well, and I want to … Continue reading
RIP: Jerry Pournelle
Science Fiction writer Jerry Pournelle passed away Friday from a long series of health incidents. For those who read a lot of the genre may recognize his name, Jerry often collaborated with Larry Niven on several books, especially The Mote in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, D & D, Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Eighties, Obit, Politics, Science Fiction, Seventies
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Sweet hippos of San Marcos! Nanobots are real!
Today, the Nobel Prize people awarded three European Scientists the 8m Swedish kronor prize in Chemistry for “nano-machines.” Five years earlier, they succeeded in making a molecular “car” drive across a piece of copper. It was only six billionths of a … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Physics, Science & Technology
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First-person view of a Hot Wheels ride!
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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
Last year was the show’s 25th anniversary and luckily I got this fascinating book completed before the year ended. Even the most jaded critic who says, “Oh, the show was better back during [insert season here],” will enjoy the observations … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Math, Physics, Reviews, Science & Technology
Tagged Cartoons, Futurama, The Simpsons
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The Theory of Everything: Worth Seeing
Science and Reality have received some serious boosts lately: the success of the new Cosmos; the well-deserved ridicule the Texas SBOE got for their moronic recommendations in textbooks (most were left out); new discoveries with space probes; the Lego set with the … Continue reading
Happy 80th Birthday Carl Sagan
Had he beaten cancer and carried on, it would’ve been his 80th. Sagan wasn’t always a genial figure since it was disputed about the lawsuits he may or may not have filed against Johnny Carson, Apple, etc. He’s probably also … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Atheism, Eighties, Mythbusting
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Bummer on fusion news
Near the anniversary of the cold fusion nonsense, some operation belonging to Lockheed Martin may have made the news about their “breakthrough” on getting real fusion to happen in a decade. I knew it was too good to be true because … Continue reading
Happy First Day of Fall 2014
To me, Labor Day is the official end of Summer and kick off to Fall. Being a Midwesterner, school would agree since its beginning tended to coincide with this arrangement. In Austin, it’s at least a couple weeks away. Phew! The … Continue reading