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February 12, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Environmentally Friendly Hard Drive Case This is interesting:...
February 10, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Changing the rep of Fungi one mushroom-based robot thingie-builder at a time It's alive!!!!! And, it's wallboard....
February 9, 2012
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Reading Diary: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Walter Isaacson's book on Apple founder & CEO Steve Jobs is a fairly long book. It's not exactly a thriller either, especially since I know how it ends. As a result it took me a while to plow through it....
February 7, 2012
Starts With A Bang
Real Science and Health News: From a Truth Vigilante "If people decide they're going to deny the facts of history and the facts of science and technology, there's not much you can do with them. For most of them, I just feel sorry that we failed in their education."...
February 6, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
myMac 01 I am a Mac. Oh, wait, no, different commercial. Let me start again. I have a Mac. I call it myMac and I've only had it for a few hours. Those of you who know me know I could not possibly own a Mac, so...
February 2, 2012
Starts With A Bang
Defeating Hubble, from the ground! "The Earth's atmosphere is an imperfect window on the universe... atmospheric turbulence blurs the images of celestial objects, even when they are viewed through the most powerful ground-based telescopes." -John Bahcall There's no doubt that the Hubble Space Telescope has...
February 1, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Lap Desk? It's apparently a good day for asking questions of the readership, so here's another one: as SteelyKid has gotten older and more active, she's become a real drain on productivity, especially at bedtime. Bedtime is now a process rather like...
January 29, 2012
denialism blog
"Incentives" for 5 Star Reviews on Ecommerce Sites In case you missed it, here's a pointer to a recent Times story concerning baked reviews on Amazon and the...
January 28, 2012
Starts With A Bang
Weekend Diversion: The Best (and Easiest) Charity Ever! "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." -Marie Curie Most of us remember the importance of...
January 26, 2012
We Beasties
Fuel from Seaweed I grew up on the coast of California, and I loved to surf. At my favorite break, Pleasure Point, the best waves were often at low tide, but low tide also meant seaweed. Lots of seaweed. [Source] The giant kelp...
January 25, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Google's New Privacy Policy Unveiled From Google: We're getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience...
USA Science and Engineering Festival: The Blog
Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Makers of All Things Technical and Scientific Will Find Amazing Ideas and Tools to Make Their Dreams Reality at USA Science & Engineering Festival The USA Science & Engineering Festival hosted by Lockheed Martin offers a special appeal for budding entrepreneurs, inventors, engineers and programmers who will find the ideas, tools and resources to help them make their dreams a reality.
January 24, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Time to opt out of Google? Google will now follow you around the internet, as you use e-mail, search, YoutTube, and so on and so forth, as you use web browsers or your Android phone, and you can't opt out. This starts March 1st. I'm not sure if this is a...
Starts With A Bang
It's Coming Right For Us!!! "Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make,...
Greg Laden's Blog
How to implement IT role changes Free-Dos Fearless Leader and IT Manger Jim Hall has a post at Almost Diamonds that some of you will be interested in. Some time ago, I posted an online poll to survey the relative importance of four qualities at various levels in an IT organization....
Uncertain Principles
Simple Video Editing Software? So, back when How to Teach Physics to Your Dog was coming out, I did a few "dramatic readings" of bits of the book, such as this one on the Quantum Zeno Effect: This was made with Windows Movie Maker,...
January 23, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
Google to Address Ad Heavy Web Sites People look at Fox News and wonder how the heck it manages to be taken seriously. Most of what is done on that station is not news, and it isn't even commentary by any reasonable journalistic standards. Fox News is much of the time a...
Aardvarchaeology
How Is Energy Consumption Moderated In A Car? Where is the "switch" that allows the alternator to suck less energy out of the tank when I turn off my wipers?
January 18, 2012
Dean's Corner
Plant Sends Tweets for Water Can a plant send tweets for water? It is possible, using a "do your own biology" approach....
January 16, 2012
Greg Laden's Blog
SOPA Dead (for now) But PIPA is Not According to the examiner: In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge...
The Weizmann Wave
A Picture Worth 500 Words (or Less) YEDA Research and Development Company LTD., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, today announced it has entered into a license agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated related to a bidirectional similarity measure to summarize visual data. Here are...
January 14, 2012
Uncertain Principles
Machine Translation Lets Me Down It's a sign of how good computers have gotten that I'm faintly offended whenever Google Translate fails to come up with something even halfway sensible. I mean, translating a blog post from one language to another is a ridiculously difficult...
Dean's Corner
How a Robot Helped Denver Broncos Tim Tebow's Pass Tim Tebow Foundation Tim Tebow with Jacob Rainey, one of the many people dealing with health problems Tebow hosted at Broncos games this season. Photo source. Denver Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow has become a popular culture phenomenon not only...
January 13, 2012
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Four First Glimpses When the stars align, the results can be nothing short of spectacular. On Starts With a Bang, Ethan Siegel shows us an "Einstein ring" photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. This celestial halo surrounds a massive red galaxy, and is...
USA Science and Engineering Festival: The Blog
Nifty Fifty Speaker Carol Reiley is on the Cover of MAKE Magazine! Festival AT&T Sponsored Nifty Fifty Program Speaker and Surgical Roboticist Carol Reiley made the recent cover of MAKE Magazine! She is the first female engineer to make the cover of the magazine. Volume 29 of MAKE features an interview and two articles co-authored by Carol.
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Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
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