http://sortingoutscience.net Science for people who never knew it could be interesting Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:38:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week's image is a scan of a photograph of an engineering model Surveyor lunar lander at JPL...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/the_scientific_tourist_115_--_meeting_the_surveyor/ Sure, everybody takes out the trash now and then. But do you think you know what's in it?

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/casual_friday_--_a_bunch_of_garbage/ The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits you...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/carnivalia_--_303_-_309/ Yes, it's only a model (at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia) of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/the_avro_arrow/ Short story: SDO wins, in spectacular fashion!

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/casual_friday_--_sdo_vs_the_sundog/ The past week's crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits you...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/carnivalia_--_224_-_302/ This week's image comes to you from Florence, Italy -- a somewhat oddly put-together diorama...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/03/the_scientific_tourist_113_--_lunch_time/ Day late / dollar short -- my apologies, I got swamped with home & work stuff. So to make it up to you, you get a geeky two-fer today -- Star Trek (TOS) and Monty Python, combined...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/02/casual_friday_--_its_only_a_model/ The past week's selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals...

]]> http://sortingoutscience.net/2010/02/carnivalia_--_217_-_223/ While the B-2 bomber is an impressive looking piece of gear, not that many people realize that the technology of flying wings goes back to the Horten brothers in Germany in the 1930's...

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