More on the Phoenix Lander
I think I’ve got a crush on the Phoenix Lander — I can’t stop looking at it. The New York Times has a write up and a slide show about the upcoming 7 mintues of terror I posted about yesterday. Some cool tid-bits from the article: After traveling 422 million […]
Why Shop Anywhere Else?
ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors (“Buddy’s Bug Hunt/1935”) to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence. For the first […]
A New Way To Dispose Of A Corpse
Found this on Slate: It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers. … In addition to the liquid, the process leaves a dry bone residue similar in appearance and volume to cremated […]
7 Minutes of Terror on Mars
No it’s not the latest trailer for another martian zombie movie — wait, has anyone ever made a martian zombie movie? and if not, why not? — it’s a quick video from the geek-bosses at JPL about the upcoming landing of the Phoenix on the polar regions of Mars The […]
DYI Shrinky-Dinks
Because some times you really just need to shirnk a dink. DYI Shirnky-Dinks
Cartoon Animal Map of Asia and Europe
I love China as the nerdly pig and Spain as the angry puppy. For more info head over to BibliOdyssy.
3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot
 Kids today with their corpse bongs. I blame it all on video games, negative political adds and Facebook. I wonder exactly how they went about smoking from a decaying head. What to use as the bowl … did the inhale from the mouth? Is a rotting head even air tight […]
Coachella By The Numbers
LA Weakly blog (pronounced Hell-A Weakly, according the great show Californication) has put together some nifty excel graphs to addres the question: Who are these 128 bands [at Coachella], collectively? As one big amalgam, what are they? I couldn’t resist a data heavy write up about Coachella given that we […]
A Dog Has Her Day — A momument to Laika
Russia Opens Monument to Space Dog Laika Russian officials on Friday unveiled a monument to Laika, a dog whose flight to space more than 50 years ago paved the way for human space missions. … All dogs used in the Soviet space program were stray mongrel dogs — doctors believed […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Spreader Bar Fabracation
Here are some photos documenting the fabrication of the spreader bar. Since this needed to be fabricated as accurately as possible I first used a CNC router to cut out an Aluminum template that we could then use to guide the tip of the plasma cutter. The template has a […]
Iron vs Steel Rivets — Why the Titanic Sank
Can you imagine my pleasure today in finding a front page New York Times article that has two of my great loves: science and metal fabrication. The article In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Tianic’s Doom, lays out the accumulating evidence that it was the use of cheaper, weaker, […]
Project Vulcan
Project Vulcan is NASA and DOE coloration with Perdue University to quantify and visualize North America carbon dioxide emissions on an 10 km scale. Here is a recently release video of their efforts. I remember when I posted a video that visualized a day of air traffic in US I […]
Hamers 101
This quirky hammer is just one of the many strange hammer you can find at Hammers 101. Can you name the hammers and the uses? I’m talking to you Bender!
Even monkeys know when she’s faking
From New Scientist: “Monkeys eavesdrop on neighbours’ orgasmic cries” Female Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) cry out during sex. When they are fertile, the call stimulates ejaculation in the male. When the females are infertile, they slightly modify the structure of the call, making the male less likely to ejaculate. Fertile […]
Art, Science and Engenering
If you read this blog often you’ve probably picked up on the two core themes of posts: art and science. I focus on these because the are currently the two domains of my life. Some of you may not know this but I an currently completing my Ph.D. in Neurobiology, […]