Monthly Archives: February 2008

Casual Friday — MSL has a snack

Posted on 29 February, 2008 by admin

In the fall of 2009, NASA will launch the next generation of rover to Mars. This beast, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is the size of a Mini Cooper, will draw its energy from a nuclear power pack, and will carry a science package that will set whole new standards in sophistication…

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Posted in Geology, Space, Technology | Tagged automation, Geology, JPL, Mars, NASA, Space, spacecraft, Technology, video | 2 Comments

Carnivalia

Posted on 27 February, 2008 by admin

Somehow this post got blown away on the server, so here goes again — last week’s science-related blog carnivals, in alphabetical order…

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Posted in Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Math, Space | Tagged Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Math, Space | 3 Comments

The scientific tourist #9 — the view out front

Posted on 26 February, 2008 by admin

This week’s “sciencey” tourist picture comes from the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, USA. The cliff dwellings and other structures at Bandelier were built by the ancestors of modern day Pueblo dwellers, who lived in the canyon from the 1100s into the mid 1500s…

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Posted in History, Humanity, Sci / Tech Tourism | Tagged ancestral puebloan, anthropology, archaeology, History, travel | 1 Comment

The Beagle, Redux

Posted on 24 February, 2008 by admin

Since the last two SOS podcast episodes have been all about Charles Darwin, and the historical context surrounding him, this seems like a good time to remind everybody about the Beagle Project…

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Posted in Biology, Communicating science, History, Odds and ends | Tagged Biology, Communicating science, History | 5 Comments

Casual Friday — espresso book machine

Posted on 22 February, 2008 by admin

Granted, this looks like a bit of a kludge currently — but I have to think that it’s only a matter of time until big swaths of book store inventory is replaced by a more refined version of this sort of machine…

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Episode 19 — The Evolution of the Theory of Evolution, Part 2 of 2

Posted on 21 February, 2008 by admin

In the last episode, I talked about the development of evolutionary theory leading up to Darwin and his contemporaries. Now it’s time to turn to the man himself…

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