Archive for January, 2008
Carnival of Space — call for submissions
The 38th Carnival of Space will be hosted right here this coming Thursday, the 24th. If you should run across any well-written space-related blog posts in the next few days, please send a link my way…
The next best thing to a time machine
If you like history, you owe it to yourself to check out a new set of images on Flickr. The Library of Congress has started a pilot program to put old images on the site for public use…
Casual Friday — Levitating Light Bulb
An impressive piece of performance art — a glowing light bulb, suspended in mid air. No wires or solid support of any kind. Can you figure out how it’s done before the video explains it all?
Rodents Of Unusual Size
They do exist! Or, at least, they did a few million years ago…
Carnivalia
Plenty of good reading material awaits in the past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnival goodness…
The scientific tourist #3 — Kepler’s early solar system
This week’s “sciencey” tourism picture is of an early attempt at a model of the solar system by Johannes Kepler, on display at the Technisches Museum, Vienna (Wien)…
Episode 16 — Electric Lighting
Between discussions of global climate change, and the ever-rising cost of energy, people are starting to take a long, hard look at the costs of lighting — both financial, and ecological. Listen in to this episode, and I’ll attempt to (ahem…) enlighten you on the history and potential future of this technology…
Casual Friday — the Falkirk Wheel
Courtesy of TechEBlog comes this flash video of the Falkirk Wheel — the world’s first and only rotating boat wheel…
Can you lend a hand?
By way of Thoughts from Kansas comes a worthy plea for help. I’ve already pitched in, now can you?…
Carnivalia
There’s another bountiful crop of science-related blog carnivals available for your perusal this week…
