Music from space

Music from space

Dear Diary, I'm going to launch a satellite! I'm a bit nervous, but I finally committed. ProjectCalliope.com.  Next week we officially announce!  Also use twitter @skyday to track!
Warming to the Facts of Climate Change

Warming to the Facts of Climate Change

[caption id="attachment_30" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Copenhagen conference must agree to cut pollution."][/caption] In 100 days, the United Nations Climate Change Conference …
Two posters on Higgs searches with CMS coming

Two posters on Higgs searches with CMS coming

In thirty minutes I will jump on a flight to Frankfurt and from there to Kobe, Japan, where I am attending the twenty-ninth edition of the Physics in Collisions conference. No big talk in store for…
A big "wtf" salute to NPR - dog hair and cancer

A big "wtf" salute to NPR - dog hair and cancer

I love NPR. I listen almost every day. I just want to get that that up front and center, because right now I am staring at the NPR story on my computer with a "WTF?" look on my face, and this is not…
EFFECT OF LOCATION ON THE GROWTH AND HYDROCARBON

EFFECT OF LOCATION ON THE GROWTH AND HYDROCARBON

India is divided into several agroclimatic zones which differs in environmental, nutritional and edaphic conditions affecting plant growth and productivity. The Calotropis procera and Calotropis…
Speedometer accuracy

Speedometer accuracy

For the drive to Montréal, I borrowed a Tom-Tom GPS device — for fun, really; the way is straightforward. It’s the first time I’ve used one in my car, and I have to say that despite the advantage of…
Trap for Tritium

Trap for Tritium

Specialists of companies «Trade Club» Ltd and «Sinkopa-K» Ltd Sevastopol, own technology of «Utilization tritium of containing liquid radio-active wastes » based on application of sorbents « Sinkopa…
An Introduction to New History: Coincidence

An Introduction to New History: Coincidence

    In December of 2006, two coinciding events occurred.  Saddam Hussein's death was youtubed and Bill Gates published an article in Scientific American called "A Robot in Every…
Summer Reading: British Sci-Fi

Summer Reading: British Sci-Fi

This summer I discovered a new (to me) literary genre: post-war British Sci-Fi. The decades after WWII were (not surprisingly) rather rough on the Brits, and the zeitgeist found an interesting outlet…
The Say of the Week

The Say of the Week

"It is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes"(From a sentence attributed to Josef Stalin) With a thought to Middle Eastern elections...
Irreducible Complexity

Irreducible Complexity

For the past few days I've been fiddling with a set of data that measure the effects of single nucleotide changes on an organism's phenotype across a variety of environments and genetic backgrounds.…