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Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas. Adds a new fun element to cow tipping as well. Read more..Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Nanoglassblowing — new ways of creating nanofluidic elements Insights into hidden world of protein folding — new insights into just how proteins fold, in some cases inside the chamber of something ... Read more..Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Gigabytes, terabytes and beyond….to Geopbytes | Tongfamily.com — thanks rich, i knew these all up to bronto/geop. Read more..Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Amazon.com: Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us by Robert Buckman. Fun book about the vast number of helpful, benign, and dangerous critters that live on and in ... Read more..Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Nanowire arrays think big - nanotechweb.org — bottoms up, “organic” assembly of nanowires. Some technique like this is going to be necessary for nanowire devices. And solving the ... Read more..Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Home — a pretty inspiring list. We should all be working on one of these! I am glad to see that Ignition has companies working on health ... Read more..Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
What Anthropic Reasoning Can Really Tell Us — good study trying to debunk the anthropic arguments in cosmology. Read more..Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Best: Extinct Animals, From an Elephant Bird to a 10-Foot-Long, Four-Eyed Spider — a 7 foot long centipede. a 4 eyed spider-like thing. eek. Read more..Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Read more..Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Clams Convert Air Into Food — perhaps the breatharians are onto something. Read more..Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Schneier on Security: Future of Malware — interesting article on the markets and economics of malware New mathematical model predicts more virulent microbes — just great. Read more..Thursday, September 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A new field for me — .:: Attosecond Spectroscopy ::. — introduced to by a recent review article in Science magazine. Fascinating — spectroscopy at the electron level, the ... Read more..Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
This stuff fascinates me — Scientists watch on the atomic level how individual molecules recognize each other — here is one guy’s list on amazon — maybe this Voet text ... Read more..Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The latest fad in creating machines that can learn — Learn Like a Human. I’ll bet now that if we ever learn how to create a human-level aritificial intelligence, ... Read more..Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Curie, the pascal, the newton, the coulomb, the farad — all great stuff. If you ever need to know just what a yoctofarad is, or how to express ... Read more..Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The blockbuster bestseller is dying. “…the evidence shows we are moving away from a winner-take-all society, not toward it” Solar powered flickering candles. Ordered for Halloween Great lens guidance from ... Read more..Friday, June 9th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
If I were going to college today, I’d be studying materials science. In fact I’ve been looking at online master’s degree programs — UW and Columbia both have ... Read more..Thursday, June 8th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I thought someone had been moving things on my desk when I was not around but now I know what is really happening — Variable physical laws I am not sure ... Read more..Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Is this cool or what — It functions via a chemical process called photocatalysis, whereby sunlight triggers a chemical reaction when titanium dioxide on the surface of the cement comes ... Read more..Thursday, March 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Speculations by kevin kelly on the future of science. Interesting. Thanks to marginal revolution. Read more..Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I think I missed a huge opportunity a couple years ago when I blogged about software-defined lenses — I should have filed a bunch of provisional patents — here is ... Read more..Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Great article in popsci about the invention of coloured bubbles. The material science discussion is fascinating. Read more..Tuesday, July 29th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The New Scientist reports on discovery of an enzyme that can destroy prions. Good news, let’s have a steak and celebrate! Read more..Thursday, May 22nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Very cool — New Scientist. If I was going to college now, I would absolutely be studying materials science, there is just so much cool stuff going on. Read more..Monday, April 7th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A nice applet demonstrating the scale of the universe — Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial Read more..