In the ten-years-on spirit of our looks back at AIRhead Project 2000, here’s a predictive research study: “An Assessment of Where People Will Witness the First Sunrise of the New Millennium,” Peter D. Lechtner, Philip A. Blain, Norris D. McWhirter, and Ingrid S. Kristament, Geographical Journal, vol. 163, no.3, July 1997, pp. 251-8.
Month: December 2009
Little train info and a little train info
Here are this month’s Railroads for Physicists links (thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing them to our attention): 1. Info about train travel to the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. 2. Info about: (A) the toy train inside the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; and (B) the NY Times account […]
The hair of Father Time
John Ptak points out that Father Time, though often portrayed during his end-of-year bald phase, was once seen as an unruly-haired fellow: This image proves that even Time itself can have a bad hair day, from time to time. The woodcut image appears as the printer’s mark (of Simonem Colineum, or Simon de Colines) in […]
“Diarrhoea vaccine guinea pigs wanted”
“Diarrhoea vaccine guinea pigs wanted for free holidays” is the headline on a BBC report that begins: A US company is offering free holidays in Mexico and Guatemala for volunteers on a diarrhoea drug programme…. The trial is in a part of the world where travellers’ diarrhoea is rife. A total of 1,800 volunteers are […]