Tangled Bank #54
Bora at Science & Politics is hosting Tangled Bank #54 - up now; read about PZ's four favourite things, "development, evolution and breasts..." - the article on the evolution of the mammary gland...
View ArticleWorld Wind update off planet
NASA World Wind has been updatedNew version includes datasets for other solar system objects.Mac version scheduled for Sep '06. Should be a significant improvement.
View ArticleWhat's the Difference
What's the DifferenceNASA Ames Learning Technologies has what looks like a fun toy for K-12 or "stars for poets" level classes.In fact LT at Ames seems to have several fun things in their repertoire
View ArticleiPod iChing - B Monopole-ies
Friday, and it'll be lite blogging for the next week.So iPod: Are there Magnetic Monopoles?Whoosh goes the randomizer.Whoosh.The Covering: Invitato a qui seguirmi - VerdiThe Crossing: Ainsi Font Font...
View ArticleI need a life...
I just saw the phrase "X2" on the internet, and immediately clicked through to see if there was anything new on orbit classification in barred spirals...
View ArticleExoenvironmentalism
Sometimes we just put things on the web for posterityLike Environmental Impact on ExoplanetsExoenvironmentalism is indeed not on Google.We must fix this.
View ArticleSmackdown at Science
NASAwatch points to an interesting exchange at ScienceThree months ago, D. Kennedy, editor of Science opined on l'affaire Deutsch at NASA PAO.Dean Acosta from NASA PAO responds in friday's Letter...
View Articletales from Iraq
A link to back-to-iraqbecause sometimes it is just important to link to things
View ArticleEverything you ever wanted to know about black holes
Is in a multi-media web presentation at Space Telescope Institute, http://hubblesite.org/discoveries/black_holes/courtesy of Dr van der MarelHigh bandwidth connection useful I expect
View Articlecarrier convergence
Nuclear Mangos has a link to a web page in japan that US Aircraft carriersNo idea how reliable are, though some of their info is consistent with stuff in the news, and some is dated.So... the USS...
View ArticleiPod iChing - Oracular Six
A cryptic friday, and we are late. No noscience today.iPod, we ask: what will the next month bring?Whoosh.The Covering: Lost John - Lonnie DonneganThe Crossing: Exodus - Bob MarleyThe Crown: Encore - O...
View ArticleAn Ode to 2006
GangstersWhy must you record my phone calls?Are you planning a bootleg L.P?Said you've been threatened by gangstersNow it's you that’s threatening me.Can't fight corruption with con tricksThey use the...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2106
Greg EganCurrently reading Rainbows End - it is very good btw, but curiously flawed in a way that is consistent with the flaws in Fast Times at Fairmont High, but more on that later - anyway there is...
View ArticleUnsportsmanlike Conduct
Big Kid is playing football (proper association football, or soccer for you misguided yanks out there). Er, well, three-a-side on a mini-pitch with infinite substitution and no goalies, but they run...
View ArticleSpacecraft with a view
Cassini catches backlit Titan silhouetted against The RingsIt is just pretty.
View ArticleBuilt Like a Tank
GrrlScientist has a cool pic of a new dinoI'm late for a meeting.If I only knew where the meeting was.
View ArticleSquyres vs Colbert
Steve Squyres (Mars Rover PI) was on The Colbert Show.Did well. I really like Colbert putting on the occasional scientist - Neil de Grasse Tyson, Brian Greene and now Squyres.
View ArticleiPod iChing - the Autonomous Collective
Friday, and we ask: oh, mighty iPod - Big Move coming. What shall it portend? And how will it work out?The Covering: Hjá Bakaranum - Thorbjorn EgnerThe Crossing: Panis Angelicus - PavarottiThe Crown:...
View ArticleQRT
Bye.This blog is shutting down operation.I'm moving to ScienceBlogs.Move pointers, blogrolls, links etc to http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/Dynamics of Cats is deadLong live Dynamics of Cats
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