Physical Science
Category archives for Physical Science
What future have nukes got?
Posted by Josh Rosenau on March 15, 2011
(8)
As you presumably know by now, the earthquake in Japan damaged a series of nuclear reactors at the Fukujima Daiichi plant. Due to damage from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, safety systems failed and the reactors could not be shut down the way they were supposed. Hydrogen gas built up and several buildings surrounding the…
Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP
Posted by Josh Rosenau on October 15, 2010 Laughing Squid reports, via John Brockman’s twitter feed and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s website, that the father of fractal geometry has moved to a different fractional dimension.
Apollo 11 launches in slo-mo and HD
Posted by Josh Rosenau on April 25, 2010 Via A Continuous Lean, an HD version of origina 16 mm film from the Apollo 11 launch: So awesome.
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the