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The Future is Right Around the Corner

Will — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:19:01 +0000

Finally, science is bringing me the future of my dreams. We’re talking tiny little robots that crawl through your veins fixing stuff. The future is coming, and it won’t be long now.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/26/the-tiny-robot-that-can-crawl-through-your-veins%E2%80%94and-treat-your-tumors

Lasers and Fusion – Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together

Will — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:38:41 +0000

For as long as i can remember, Fusion was that technology that was always 50 years away. Now, while I wasn’t looking, 50 years seems to have gotten A LOT CLOSER. I hope it works. It would solve a bunch of problems and be all kinds of cool. I can’t help feeling sad that none of this stuff is happening in the US. When it comes to science, we have really taken our eye off the ball.

Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2008 According to Science Magazine

Will — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:46:33 +0000

You can keep your top 10 movies or songs or cereal lists. This Top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2008 is super exciting. What will 2009 hold?

How Much Solar Power Can Your Roof Generate

Will — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:16:29 +0000

RoofRay is kind of an interesting site. You enter your address into google maps. You outline your roof (preferably a southern facing roof), and it calculates how much power solar panels could generate for you. It even runs the numbers to tell you what an installation would cost and how long it would take you to make your investment back.

So I Have Brain Damage Then?!

Will — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:56:24 +0000

The article When Brain Damage Helps contains a logic problem that is much easier for somebody with a specific type of brain damage to solve.

I had no problem solving it, so I assume that means I have brain damage (actually, about 43% of the non-brain damaged people were able to solve it compared to 80% of brain damaged people, so I probably haven’t been lobotomized in my sleep). Awesome. I wonder what other super powers I have.

Best. Story. Ever.

Will — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:54:10 +0000

Human Fecal Transplants, and the doctor’s name is Aas. Now, I’ve heard EVERYTHING!

This Is Not a Placebo

Will — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:49:52 +0000

It seems like I may have blogged this once before (or something very much like it). Just in case though, here’s a New Scientist article that outlines 13 things that do not make sense.

Fire Up the Emdrive

Will — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:12:31 +0000

I lean towards thinking it’s probably snake oil myself (things that sound too good to be true usually are, and conservation of momentum seems too real to get past), but the Electromagnetic Drive that Roger Shawyer claims to have developed still sounds really cool. It would be great if it was real — even though it almost certainly isn’t.

Don’t Know Much About Science

Will — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:42:52 +0000

All this time, I thought that spacecrafts heated up on re-entry because of the friction of the atmosphere. According to the site, Science Facts that People Get Wrong, I’ve been quite wrong.

I hate being wrong.

A Fascinating Life

Will — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:42:57 +0000

Physicist, Richard Feynman, is a fascinating man. I could listen to him discuss his upbringing and his work on the atomic bomb, and his later research all night.

In The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, you can do just that — well, for about 50 minutes anyway. I find I want more. Check this out. It really is great.