This video comes from a camera attached to a homebuilt device that rose to great heights. The Guardian describes it in a short paragraph (and also, elsewhere, in more detail): Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras […]
Month: February 2012
Headline of the Day: Cancer/Crab/Robot/Stomach
Today’s Headline of the Day is from a Reuters report by Tan Ee Lyn. The headline manages to implicitly make both the mythic, astrological connection between cancer and crabs and the dietary connection between crabs and the stomach, and to include a trendy mention of robots (which are in fact the focus of the story): […]
Bits of opera and science: twinkies, and the big bank opera
Two bits of opera/science pasticcio, sort of: Hai-Ting Chinn sings the ingredients of a twinkie (the chemical constituents of an endangered American junk food): Maria Ferrante sings the essence of the Big Bank Opera (how the financial crisis mirrored the birth of the universe):
Right Bias in Tortoise Righting
If one were to overturn a tortoise, would it be more likely to right itself (i.e. get back on its feet) to the right or to the left? To find out, a joint research team from the Comparative Psychology Research Group, University of Padova, Italy and the B.R.A.I.N. Centre for Neuroscience, University of Trieste, Italy, […]