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June 2008 Archives
The Short Goodbye
by It seems like just yesterday I was making a science television show and writing a blog that would go the distance. Ah, my salad days, when I was green in judgment.
by It's been an interesting experience.
by So long and thanks for all the fish!
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Don't Be a Stranger
by Well, it's goodbye from me... and maybe hello elsewhere...
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Summer reading!
Have some free time this summer? A few books to add to your list...
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Out of Balance
Climate change can't be avoided in any way except by stopping our changes to the atmosphere.
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The River of Energy
Wherein we tackle global warming at last...
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Plight Of The Postdoc
by Is modern American science strangling its young talents in the cradle?
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Mars Lander Awash in Data
I've throttled back on the Mars Lander news updates of late, but I can spare you my astrophilia no longer. The latest from the Red Planet is that Phoenix has dug its robotic hand into the dirt and come out with a fistful of chemical data that points toward - you guessed it - water. A lot of water.
After the flood--starting to assess the damage
The flooding may be nearing an end, but the clean-up and reconstruction are only just beginning.
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Bucky
Richard Buckminster Fuller was a dreamer. No doubt about it. He had all sorts of ideas about how technology could be employed to solve the ills of our society and species. Most of them never saw the light of day, although his name lives on in a number of areas. There's an excellent opportunity to learn more about him by visiting an excellent new retrospective on him that is in New York's Whitney Museum, and there's a New Yorker article that you can read online.
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Micro-Beauty
by I just came across these fantastic images from Lennart Nilsson's site and had to post them. Seriously, who would think subway scum and malaria could look this beautiful? Nilsson is one of the pioneers of medical photography, and was also the first person to ever capture images of the HIV and SARS virus.
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The Black Mallet :: Mathematical Pudding
Last night I watched what could oddly be described as a moving math documentary. It's the story of Andrew Wiles, a Princeton University professor who spent seven years of his life ploughing away at one of mathematics' last great unsolved puzzles
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Journey To South Africa!
Esteemed wildlife photographer and biologist, Nicolas Devos, is back in South Africa... and he's bringing Correlations readers on the adventure!
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Clouds from Both Sides Now
As much energy leaves the earth into space as arrives from the sun. As much energy reaches the surface of the earth as leaves the surface. But these are not the same! Does the earth somehow make something from nothing?
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In 2008, Dead Zones Are Deadlier
Remember those disgusting vast areas of the ocean depleted of oxygen and devoid of fish, shrimp, and marine life? They're getting worse.
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Return of the clones!
How much would you pay for Fido v. 2.0?
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Take a Tour of a Detector!
Ever wanted to look inside a particle accelerator's detector and see how it works? Want to know what sort of work goes on at these huge facilities? There's a new website for the CDF experiment at Fermilab that'll interest you. There's also some fun movies about the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Aliens on Earth or Name that Creature 2 :: Answers
More beautiful freaks from the animal kingdom.
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Welcome Home Discovery!
The 14-day mission to the International Space Station ended as Discovery touched down on the 15,000-foot landing strip at 11:15 a.m Saturday morning in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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When We Left Earth
Do you know about the Discovery Channel show called "When We Left Earth" ? It celebrates 50 years of NASA missions, and looks like a fun and informative series. Somethign for Sunday nights. Also, tonight there's a live chat with one of the show's creators.
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Iowa underwater
Iowa's experiencing historic flooding...
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Venter's Energy Bug
Craig Venter is out to create a bacterium that uses CO2 to create fuel. If he succeeds, it could change everything...
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Pluto's a Plutoid!
Ever wonder what Pluto is since it stopped being a planet? A dwarf planet, you say. Well, as of Tuesday, there's a new classification. It is a Plutoid.
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Ray Ray Ray
In other gamma-ray related news, the movie "The Incredible Hulk" is released this week. What was it with gamma rays (and other rays) playing such a prominent role in so many origins stories in the old classic comic books?
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At Last - GLAST!
The GLAST observatory has been launched today. It is designed to study gamma rays coming from space. There's an exciting time ahead, with this new window on a range of highly energetic phenomena happening in the universe. We may learn a great deal about astrophysics and cosmology. Stay tuned.
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What Goes Down Must Come Up
The earth emits almost exactly as much energy as it receives. This is not a coincidence.
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Dwell Wrap Up
So I made my way to the Dwell On Design Exhibition this past weekend and snapped a few photos for those of you who missed it.
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Energy in the Climate System
We discuss a diagram which is the first step toward understanding the climate system.
Dwell On Design Winner
Today is exhibition day at the Dwell On Design Conference and a lucky Correlations reader is heading there with a couple of free tickets in his pocket.
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I Am Canadian (Physics)
Another day, another $50 million dollar donation from Canadian telecom billionaire/physics-benefactor Mike Lazaridis.
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Let's Dwell On Design
The Dwell On Design Conference begins tomorrow here in (not so) sunny Los Angeles and it looks to be a fantastic few days of talks, house tours, and exhibitions. Oh, and did I mention that I managed to get my hot little hands on a FREE PASS to the event for a lucky Correlations reader?
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Dancing About String Theory
The World Science Festival ended yesterday. Was it the beginning of a mainstream acceptance of science, or was it just dancing about physics?
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Science Matters
I awoke this morning to find my Sunday ritual of nursing my hangover with a cup of coffee while perusing The New York Times enlivened by a lovely Op-Ed about the role of science in society.
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