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Tag Archives: Science
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
To the planet Neptune, that is — the very-distant gas giant, eighth planet from the Sun (and possibly the last planet from the Sun, depending on whether or not you abide by the pinheaded decision to demote Pluto to less-than-a-planet … Continue reading
Piled high and deep
Check out this amazing infographic depicting the highest heights and lowest lows of our planet, from the outer reaches of the atmosphere all the way to the bottom of the deepest oceanic trench in the world. It’s topical, too, including … Continue reading
30 years….
…since Mount St. Helens’s massive eruption of May 18, 1980. We actually lived in Hillsboro, OR at the time of the 1980 eruptions (there were quite a few, starting earlier than that, but May 18 was the Mother of ’em … Continue reading
Scary….
Matthew Yglesias points out this tool that makes the scope of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill more plain than just throwing out a number of square miles or showing a segment of ocean in a map. You can superimpose … Continue reading
It’s Pi Day!
(image via) Yup, time to celebrate the Lord of All Irrational Numbers, the King of All Ratios and the Mostest Cool of All Formulae, “A equals pi R squared”. It’s Pi Day! Here’s Wikipedia on Pi: π (sometimes written pi) … Continue reading
“The Gift of Apollo”
[I am excerpting this from Chapter 13 of Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot.] It’s a sultry night in July. You’ve fallen asleep in the armchair. Abruptly, you startle awake, disoriented. The television set is on, but not the sound. … Continue reading
The trains on the plain mainly avoid the rain
What this blog needs is, quite clearly, more trains. So, first up, one of my dream vacations: riding trains through Switzerland. Trains show up in Hayao Miyazaki’s films, such as this from Spirited Away: Here’s the world’s highest railway, which … Continue reading
Head, meet desk.
Here’s a state legislator in Arizona opining on something or other: Note that when she says twice that Earth is 6000 years old, nobody says anything. Nobody gives an audible “Wait, what?!” Nobody says, “Oh my God, are you an … Continue reading
Just don’t tell my father….
Kevin Drum is nonplussed by something he read in the WSJ: a Canadian named James Stewart who got freakishly rich by writing calculus textbooks. As Kevin says, “You can earn millions writing calculus textbooks? Seriously?” Well, this isn’t much of … Continue reading
Sign me up! Sign me up!!!
Here at Casa Jaquandor we have not had cable teevee for almost eight years; “rabbit ears” have been sufficient for our needs. Aside from the occasional Food Network show, I’ve really not missed cable all that much. But then I … Continue reading