Category: science
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Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam – Slashdot
This sounds like a lot of sci-fi meets science. Foam riders? Foam surfers? Black hole foam silver surfers v. Dr. Doom? Eat Galactic Bran Flakes on your Spacetime Foam! Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam – Slashdot.
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Going boldly: Behind the scenes at NASA’s hallowed Mission Control Center | Ars Technica
Going boldly: Behind the scenes at NASA’s hallowed Mission Control Center | Ars Technica. Wow, this is pretty neat stuff.
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Pacific Northwest Eclipse Times, Dec 10
My sister passes along the OMSI planetarium manager’s useful local timeline: “For the Pacific Northwest viewers, the penumbral eclipse begins at 3:33 a.m. PST and the umbral shadow takes a small, dark bite out of the left edge of the moon starts at 4:45 a.m. PST. For 66 minutes of the partial phase, the darkness engulfs…
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Moving Planet – Bike Bellingham – Sat Sep 24
Who wants to join us at Columbia School? [Copied from ride event http://facebook.com/350bellinghamRide Event Page ] 11am – Ten city bike rides from 10 schools in Bellingham, to converge downtown at City Hall and Library. Meet in front of: Happy Valley, Sunnyland, Kulshan, Shuksan, Fairhaven, Columbia, Larrabee, Silver Beach, WCC (meet in front of Laidlaw…
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TSA cagey on cancer risk?
Interesting. One wonders what the exposure rate for standing in line for those back-scatter and the luggage x-ray things are. Worth noting that the safey regulations on those things are prolly totally vain–have you ever seen how tightly cramped the security areas get? http://www.infowars.com/cancer-surges-in-body-scanner-operators-tsa-launches-cover-up/ (I saw this link via bear454)
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Great interview on hacker spaces, responsible disclosure (TCLP)
Thomas interviews Tiffany Rad in this episode of The Commandline Podcast. I appreciated this interview because, as a father, I am interested in all the ways I can expose my kids to learning opportunities, and while I might not end up with little net-running hellions, it sounds like public schools are often becoming less and…
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Tiny Computers: 4 for $100
This would be an awesome exhibit for LinuxFest Northwest 2012: small usb computer kit.
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Paleolithic Bread (NYT)
This is really a fluff article from the NY Times, which is kinda sad. It implies that the Paleo diet (meat and raw veggies, very low carb) might be invalidated by this discovery which pushes the date of the use of flour to 30,000 years ago. However, it doesn’t explain why that actually threatens the…
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Game Play and War
This NPR episode delves into discussion on the difference between play fighting and actual fighting. Apparently this difference is wired into people and dogs and presumably many other animals. So when you see your kids play fighting, think about when dogs play fight. Surprise–this same instinct is engaged during video game play. The non-gamer video-game…
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Diabetes and Air Pollution (Science News)
I do not care for the title of this article, because the end of the article discusses how the trend is definitely not causational and might only relate to increased rates of obesity. We all know that air pollution is bad, and we all still drive a heck of a lot. So basically, even if there…
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