NASA announced that it will finally get a good look at our Sun. NASA manages to put the importance of this ability in a nutshell: STEREO’s deployment on opposite sides of the Sun solves a problem that has vexed astronomers for centuries: At any given moment they can see only half of the stellar surface. […]
I think about things and wonder: what causes it, or how it works, or even why can’t I find anything about it. Today I got to think about eyes and sleep. Have you ever noticed that you’ll be asleep and it’s dark and some sound or something wakes. But, you come to consciousness but you […]
Wind farms are nothing new but putting them off-shore is. Cape Wind on Nantucket Sound will be the first off-shore wind farm in America. According to an article in Tech Fragments, Cape Wind just got the official go ahead to proceed with their project. The project will have 130 turbines in the waters of Nantucket […]
Last week New Scientist had an article on How Novels Help Drive Social Evolution. The article reports on a study by Jonathan Gottschall and co-author Joseph Carroll at the University of Missouri, St Louis, about how “Darwin’s theories of evolution apply to literature” (I’m not putting in a link to the study since you have […]
Many times in my life I’ve found myself out of sync with my friends, companions, family members, coworkers, or what have you. Some times, I just shrug and let it go because it isn’t that important to me. Other times, I’ll stick to my point — mostly I’ll stand pat if the issue is one […]
Okay, maybe you saw this news item and maybe you didn’t — if not I’m going to talk about it for a bit. It seems that scientists have noted that there seems to be some rather large methane plumes on Mars. NASA released this information in one of their news release/feature report along with some […]
There seems to be a lot of conflicting information being published about coffee and its effect on us. Of course that’s not new; some people have always said it’s bad for you to drink coffee and some have said it’s good. I remember as a child it was forbidden to have coffee unless, of course, […]
I say “Watch the sky!” not in a The Thing or Independence Day kind of way. I’m not expecting an alien invasion any time soon. No, I’m saying it because 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy — with all sorts of events planned throughout the world. The International Year of Astronomy website has lots […]