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the wire: 11/10/2011

[Above: The best my camera's sensor could do. Moon Glides by Brilliant Jupiter] Read: Carl Sagan’s piece about Earth from Jupiter. MUST LISTEN: Night Time (the ...

Cancer Blogs

Cancer Cures, and Preventions, Fact or Fiction You’ve had that hacking cough for a while, or you felt that hard lump.  It doesn’t hurt, but you decide to ...

Star Size Comparision

The following video does a great job showing the relative size of objects in the universe. ...

The Decent of a NASA Space Shuttle Booster ...

We’ve seen stunning footage of NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis and its possible successor, the SpaceX Falcon 9, blasting off into Earth orbit.  Now NASA is providing a ...

Still Blogging and Some Changes

Hello world. You may have noticed that I have not posted much here recently. But do not worry, I am still  blogging. I'm making some changes to  this blog. I'll intr ...

Open Notebook Science & Sharing the Messy P ...

In searching for motivations / reasons / justifications for writing and sharing more freely, I’ve stumbled upon the idea of Open Notebook Science, a practice of the Ope ...

Sea Shepherd: With laser against Japan whal ...

The conservationists of the Sea Shepherd Society use new weapons in the battle against Japanese whale catchers:  Not only, that they have one of the fastest boats of th ...

Knol: Wikipedia’s Doom?

While I was ranting some days ago about Wikipedia being completely bureaucratic and it being overly complex to get your knowledge, I’ve completely overseen the ne ...

Planetary

August 24, 2006. The nine planets became eight. Yes, Pluto, the most distant planet from the Sun, was kicked out of the planetary club, with other members being Mercury, ...