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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: mshray on July 16, 2009, 12:55:54 PM
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It seems Geoff's latest blog post underscored some interest in science that deserves its own home.
And to kick it off, the Physics lectures of Richard Feymman are now available in their entirety on the web (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html), in an annotated and interactive style that looks pretty cool. And it's all thanks to Bill Gates (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10286732-56.html).
[ETA: correcting a couple of grammatical and spelling errors.]
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It seems Geoff's latest blog post underscored some interest in science that deserves its own home.
And to kick it off, the Physics lectures of Richard Feymman are now available in their entirety on the web (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html), in an annotated and interactive style that looks pretty cool. And it's all thanks to Bill Gates (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10286732-56.html).
This is indeed a treasure. I have only discovered Feynman a couple of years ago, and he was apparently quite an interesting character. These video lectures are rather unusual in how they are presented, with simultaneous text and supplementary graphics popping up as the footage rolls. Feynman is relatively accessible as things go, but sometimes this is just pretty spacey sledding. Thanks Mark for putting this link up; I'm going to spread the word among my nerdy colleagues, so you may see this in FB-land soon!
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I saw a short piece on the Golf channel about this course at Yale: The Physics of Golf (http://www.physorg.com/news113584156.html)
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The Scientific American on Creatvity:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=an-easy-way-to-increase-c (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=an-easy-way-to-increase-c)
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cool pictures of Saturns rings:
http://ciclops.org/view_event/112/Anticipation_Builds_as_Equinox_Draws_Near?js=1 (http://ciclops.org/view_event/112/Anticipation_Builds_as_Equinox_Draws_Near?js=1)
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cool pictures of Saturns rings:
http://ciclops.org/view_event/112/Anticipation_Builds_as_Equinox_Draws_Near?js=1 (http://ciclops.org/view_event/112/Anticipation_Builds_as_Equinox_Draws_Near?js=1)
I have got to get my telescope assembled! By the way, for those of you near clear skies at night, we have a meteor shower coming in the next few days.
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I worked on the Voyager project back in 74-75, when it was actually called Mariner Jupiter Saturn, so I've taken an interest in this.
It was on this day in 1977 that the Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched. Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, set out to explore the giant gaseous planets -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They did that, and they are still in space, releasing new data constantly. Voyager 2's newest discovery concerns the bubble around our solar system where the solar wind (a thin gas of charged particles, which come from the sun) meets the space beyond our solar system. Voyager 2 has shown that that bubble is irregular, or squashed, not round.
Just in case the Voyagers make it into another solar system with alien life forms, each Voyager has a record that is three-quarters music and one-quarter greetings in 55 languages and various sounds from nature. The music includes Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and traditional songs from all over the world.
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couldn't decide where to put this... Good News: a beaver sighting (get your mind outta the gutter!). The first beaver seen on Long Island in over 100 years. He apparently migrated from New England , which means he swam across Long island Sound (!)
http://easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Home/News/Beaver/tabid/9764/Default.aspx
"Ward, I'm no longer worried about the beaver"
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http://www.lghs.net/teachers/science/burns/scienceonsimpsons/Clips.html
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couldn't decide where to put this... Good News: a beaver sighting (get your mind outta the gutter!). The first beaver seen on Long Island in over 100 years. He apparently migrated from New England , which means he swam across Long island Sound (!)
http://easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Home/News/Beaver/tabid/9764/Default.aspx
"Ward, I'm no longer worried about the beaver"
This is the inspiration for the current cover story in Nat'l Geographic Magazine (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/09/mannahatta/mannahatta-animation).
(http://www.nationalgeographic.com/images/promo_sept-09-ngm-sm.jpg)
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Berkeley scientists find 'missing link' between human and chimpanzee evolution, 4.4 million year old skeleton.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13461419 (http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13461419)
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Berkeley scientists find 'missing link' between human and chimpanzee evolution, 4.4 million year old skeleton.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13461419 (http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13461419)
100,000 Creationists heads just exploded!
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Berkeley scientists find 'missing link' between human and chimpanzee evolution, 4.4 million year old skeleton.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13461419 (http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13461419)
100,000 Creationists heads just exploded!
If only that were true, there's probably be a lot less opposition to the public option, too.
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DUDE! Revenge is, like, totally SWEET! Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners announced yesterday, was fired by the Bush administration for criticizing their opposition to Stem-cell research.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/06/elizabeth-blackburn-bush/
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To da moon Alice! NASA to Bomb the Moon this Friday in search of more water.
Scientific American - "On October 9, a NASA probe called LCROSS will bomb the moon, near its south pole, to look for more signs of lunar water in the blast debris"...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-galore-on-moon-and-mars-2009-09
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To da moon Alice! NASA to Bomb the Moon this Friday in search of more water.
Scientific American - "On October 9, a NASA probe called LCROSS will bomb the moon, near its south pole, to look for more signs of lunar water in the blast debris"...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-galore-on-moon-and-mars-2009-09
A rat done bit my sister Nell. And whitey bombed the moon.
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To da moon Alice! NASA to Bomb the Moon this Friday in search of more water.
Scientific American - "On October 9, a NASA probe called LCROSS will bomb the moon, near its south pole, to look for more signs of lunar water in the blast debris"...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-galore-on-moon-and-mars-2009-09
A rat done bit my sister Nell. And whitey bombed the moon.
Post of the Week!!!
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To da moon Alice! NASA to Bomb the Moon this Friday in search of more water.
Scientific American - "On October 9, a NASA probe called LCROSS will bomb the moon, near its south pole, to look for more signs of lunar water in the blast debris"...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=water-galore-on-moon-and-mars-2009-09
A rat done bit my sister Nell. And whitey bombed the moon.
Post of the Week!!!
yeah, good one.
You think the NASA guys were singing "Ice... Ice ... Maybe?" during this project? :)
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could be in a different thread, but these are science based:
http://gethighnow.com/
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very cool graphic depiction of Space Exploration (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/sizes/o/)
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very cool graphic depiction Space Exploration (http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/sizes/o/)
very cool indeed! Must show to students.
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Astronomy geeks, check out these images (and commentary) (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/saturn_at_equinox.html) from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn.
I'd recommend scrolling down to the commentary on #8 first, to get a sense of how momentous these images really are. Note that #3 & #21 are animated series of images, so don't scroll past too fast.
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Astronomy geeks, check out these images (and commentary) (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/saturn_at_equinox.html) from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn.
I'd recommend scrolling down to the commentary on #8 first, to get a sense of how momentous these images really are.
awesome, thanks for posting this. When I was in NYC back in July the Museum of Nat History had a series of Saturn shots, taken by Hubbel, I think.
And I heard the new very outer rings they found near Saturn are on a scale so huge that if you extend your arm all the way out, the rings would follow roughly the size of your pinky nail.
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Astronomy geeks, check out these images (and commentary) (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/saturn_at_equinox.html) from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn.
I'd recommend scrolling down to the commentary on #8 first, to get a sense of how momentous these images really are. Note that #3 & #21 are animated series of images, so don't scroll past too fast.
this is awesome. I plan on showing it to my Earth Science students tomorrow! Thanks
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http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/mwpan_aitoff.html
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http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/mwpan_aitoff.html
that's very cool.
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a gallery of the year's best scientific images. Some really cool ones in here.
http://www.popsci.com/node/36702 (http://www.popsci.com/node/36702)
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Any suggestions? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8406633.stm)
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Any suggestions? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8406633.stm)
even though they've confirmed it's from a Russian rocket launch, I still think the pics are pretty cool!
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Very interesting article about how science is done & how our brains work while we do it.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1 (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1)
Lot's of ramifications imho. For one thing, according to the explanation in the article, I think my wife has an overactive dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. After you read the article you'll probably have some suggestions of others you think fit the bill.
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Here's something to marvel at. The Mariana Trench, depicted to scale:
http://i.imgur.com/m3ZxZ.jpg
Wow. That's deep.
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Check out the Odd Physics Video Archive (http://amasci.com/amateur/physvids.html)
don't miss the anti-gravity cat on p. 3 or the dolphins on p. 4.
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Here are a couple interesting links, especially the first one.
The Smithsonian's 3-D Fossil Collection (http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection)
The Dynamic Periodic Table (http://www.ptable.com/)
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Here are a couple interesting links, especially the first one.
The Smithsonian's 3-D Fossil Collection (http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/3d-collection)
kewl! (For a sec i thought I was gonna have to dig up a pair of 3-D glasses)
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Here are a couple interesting links, especially the first one.
The Dynamic Periodic Table (http://www.ptable.com/)
Funny you should mention the Periodic Table. Was talking to my sister the other day, and she mentioned that my nephew has memorized the Periodic Table. He's 7.
Hope he doesn't let that get around or he's in for some serious teasing. Another nerd in the making. I guess they run in our family. :)
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Here are a couple interesting links, especially the first one.
The Dynamic Periodic Table (http://www.ptable.com/)
this is the one I like!
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This is sort of sciency... live animal observation. Brought to my attention by this morning's Jon Carroll column:
http://www.ustream.tv/theowlbox#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=3034451&utm_medium=social
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(http://www.npr.org/assets/img/2011/04/07/tree5.jpg)
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This is taking home science a bit too far. (Warning: SFGate keeps freezing my browser today (IE 8 ), not sure why.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/03/international/i083333D22.DTL
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I'm not a fan of Rush, but found this article about black holes kind of funny, from the Rush point of view:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/the-fate-of-the-first-black-hole.html
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I'm not a fan of Rush, but found this article about black holes kind of funny, from the Rush point of view:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/the-fate-of-the-first-black-hole.html
well, Rush kind of ARE a black hole, musically. Or Geddy's voice creates black holes. or something. (ducks as Tinka throws something)
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This is a probe I worked on back in '74-'75. The technology was also behind the guitar business I've been in since the late 70's. I keep in touch with Voyager 2 via Twitter, example:
I am currently 13 hrs 14 mins 20 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2011:232:2L)
from the Writer's Almanac:
On this date in 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft. They timed the launch to coincide with a rare planetary alignment that allowed the craft to make use of each planet's gravity to boost it on its way. The original purpose of the mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn; it's since passed Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and is now considered an "interstellar mission" because it still has enough velocity to leave the solar system. It's currently flying through the heliopause: the area where the solar wind is opposed by hydrogen and helium gases from interstellar space, forming a kind of bubble around the solar system. Scientists believe it will be able to continue sending back signals until at least 2025.
Voyager 1 and 2 also carry golden records, with pictographic instructions on how to play them. The records contain sounds, images, and welcome messages from Earth, as well as a map to our location. Carl Sagan chaired the committee that decided what should go on the record. He said: "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about life on this planet." President Jimmy Carter included his own message on the record: "This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours."
(http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2010/05/voyager-NASA-thumb-640xauto-13880.jpg)
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This is pretty cool, though he shouldn't quit his day job. Seriously cool day job.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/12/astronaut_chris_hadfield_sings_david_bowie_s_space_oddity_in_space.html
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http://www.wired.com/2015/02/wham-o-frisbee/
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http://www.wired.com/2015/02/wham-o-frisbee/
The inventor, Walter Morrison, a carpenter with a knack for tinkering, came up with the idea for the simple toy by tossing empty cake pans. His breakthrough improvement, after switching from metal to molded plastic, was curving the disc’s outer edge like an airfoil. In 1955 he sold his invention to Wham-O—manufacturer of slingshots and Hula-Hoops—where a product designer named Ed Headrick made the final tweak of rippling the top with concentric ridges. These add turbulence, which holds air against the surface for a longer flight.
It's surprising how many things in that paragraph are either a bit misleading or outright mistakes.
But I guess that's what you get when constantly generating new "content" is part of your
business model.
- While Morrison may have been inspired by, and participated in, the tossing of metal pie tins or
can lids, the activity predates him by years and perhaps decades.
- He didn't switch from metal to plastic -- his initial models were crafted from balsa wood. He
switched to plastic after an increase in the price of balsa wood.
- While ridges may increase flight length, the effect probably isn't noticable by the average disc
player. I have many smooth discs that can be thrown quite far.
- Ed Headrick also added a cupola and other baroque features to the flight plate of early discs
that greatly decreased flight length, and made them less stable and weaker. It took nearly
twenty years for these to be removed.
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So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.
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So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.
I'm not sure of your point. The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced. I have
most of the books listed as references. Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.
The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.
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So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.
I'm not sure of your point. The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced. I have
most of the books listed as references. Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.
The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.
Wait.
Are you trying to tell me that Tim Robbins didn't event it, "You know, for the kids."
Will you try & tell that to the young people of today?, won't believe ya, No.
(2 of Gaz's frink points if anyone gets both references!)
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So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.
I'm not sure of your point. The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced. I have
most of the books listed as references. Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.
The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.
Wait.
Are you trying to tell me that Tim Robbins didn't event it, "You know, for the kids."
Will you try & tell that to the young people of today?, won't believe ya, No.
(2 of Gaz's frink points if anyone gets both references!)
1. Hudsucker Proxy?
2. Fargo?
(No googles were consulted in the creation of these guesses.)
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So, I guess I should ask if you've read the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc
Sounds like they're also talking about pie tins.
I'm not sure of your point. The wikipedia article appears accurate and is well-sourced. I have
most of the books listed as references. Pie tins certainly have a big place in Frisbee pre-history.
The Wired posting (it isn't even long enough to be called an article or even a column) is written
as if two guys made a couple of design decisions and viola! -- the modern Frisbee was created.
In reality, there were thirty or forty years of Frisbee history that included stagnant periods,
dead-ends, and several incremental changes before those early discs evolved into what are
used today.
Wait.
Are you trying to tell me that Tim Robbins didn't event it, "You know, for the kids."
Will you try & tell that to the young people of today?, won't believe ya, No.
(2 of Gaz's frink points if anyone gets both references!)
1. Hudsucker Proxy?
2. Fargo?
(No googles were consulted in the creation of these guesses.)
I was going to say "Bob Roberts" and Dana Carvey's George Bush impersonation from SNL.
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Hudsucker Proxy, yes.
Hint, the other was from TV, more famous in it's later reincarnation than the original.
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Hudsucker Proxy, yes.
Hint, the other was from TV, more famous in it's later reincarnation than the original.
Monty Python? "We lived in a shoebox by the side of the road, and every morning we
had to get up at 4am and lick the road clean with our tongues!"
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Yep, the famous "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. but check out the original, from a 1968 BBC special featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese & Marty Feldman(!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtSw3daGoo
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thought I'd park a blog post about the eclipse here:
https://sciencetrips.blogspot.com/2017/08/oregon-eclipse-journey.html