Hsien-Hsien Lei is the channel editor here on SciHealth. She works damn, damn hard. She blogs stuff that is awesome. And now the rest of the world knows it too. Fox News has tapped her two b5 blogs as part of the Top 10 blogs on health.
What’s left to say after that?
Tags: b5media rocks
Science has been used for both good, and ill. We all know it. We all live with it. It’s one of those things that good scientists think about. Is this learning going to benefit the world, or destroy it. Now, I think the development of nonlethal weapons is a good thing. Killing a person should be the absolute last resort, and when you’re dealing with a mob, well lethal force shouldn’t be an option. Fine.
So via Wired News, I learned about the Air Force’s new Active Defense System. Here’s a description from the article:
The crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll …read more
Nope, I didn’t win. That’s okay the three other blogs are excellent and worthy. I wasn’t too far off the hunt in coming in third, so I’m cool with that. Without further ado …
Best Sci/Tech Blog 1st: Off The Grid — 2nd: Amber Mac — 3rd: Gecko Bloggle
Tags: Canadian Blog Awards
Remember my post about Mercury crossing the Sun? Of course you did! Regardless Derek Miller’s dad took some really cool pictures of it. Yes, safely. Yes through a telescope with the right filters. Sheesh, you think I’d encourage unsafe science.
Tags: Mercury, astronomy
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I got a fun link from my good friend Laura over at CFS Stories, throwing hot dogs to calculate Pie. No, really I’m serious. I read through the article and it all makes sense. Now, I’m not too crazy about throwing good food on the floor, so I think using something like a piece of PVC pipe or wooden dowel might be better.
Have I tried this yet? Are you kidding? We’re still having the occasional power issues and the water system is still coming online. Maybe another snowy day.
Tags: Pi, calculating Pi
So my last post was on the 24th that I made the top five of the CBAs, then nothing. What happened? Snow. 10+ in of it, and we lost power at noon on Sunday (the whole freakin’ Island). Just got power back on about a couple hours ago. So, when I dig out from about a ga-billion feeds, I’ll start posting again.
Tags: snow, no power
Wow … I even beat myself by a healthy margin ! That’s what I get for submitting two of my blogs in the same category. The results are here, you have to scroll down to the bottom to see the SciTech results. This means that Homely Scientist is in round two! Yahoo! Okay, the next round of voting starts tomorrow (Saturday) … so please visit the Canadian Blog Awards and vote (for me)!
Tags: Homely Scientist, Canadian Blog Awards, Tris Hussey
Talk about a post long overdue (not to mention sitting in my "to write" pile for a long time). Anyway there was (is?) a meme going around where people are posting this list of Sci Fi books and marking off the ones they’ve read. After looking at the list, I decided that I’m not going to bother, I haven’t read most of the books … heck I haven’t heard of a lot of them. There were a few books not on the list that I think (IMHO) should have been there (Stranger in a Strange Land for one which gave …read more
I found this on Engadget with a link to the source article, researchers have been working out ways to test theories of evolution with electronic tadpoles that "mate" and product "offspring". This is all in quotes because there is no actual mating involved the researchers take the traits of the two individuals and make a new bot from them. The results thus far are interesting nonetheless:
After 10 generations, Long and his colleagues found that as swimming performances improved, stiffer tails evolved.
"One thing vertebrates really brought to scene were large, fast, active animals, and this part of the anatomy has a …read more
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I submitted two of my blogs to the Canadian Blog Awards … they are in the same category, Sci-Tech. So, A View from the Isle (my bloggy homebase) and Homely Scientist are up there. While I see now that is was stupid for me to submit both in the same category (I didn’t think both would be accepted), how about this … you, dear readers, choose which one you like and read more and vote for that one. Haven’t read HS but like VftI, vote VftI (and vice versa). You can vote more than once, just not more than once …read more
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