Science

New Scientist has a neat interview with John Nash the inspiration for A Beautiful Mind. It is a good read. (via BoingBoing) (0)

Batteries that last for months?

Friday, October 8th, 2004

Tired of that laptop only running 3-4 hours on a single charge? how about a new power source being investigated. Nuclear batteries. They use alpha particle emissions to generate power, so they are as safe as your smoke detector at home. 1 cubic millimeter of polonium-210 could generate 50 milliwatts of power for 4 months. [...]

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Birthday Weather

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

I found on the Old Farmer’s Almanac site that you can get weather history for a specific date and location, such as my birthday. It was around a clear day, 50 degrees, with 12 to 30 mph winds. Seems just about my ideal weather.

So I got to thinking…

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Traffic Waves, Physics For Bored Commuters

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

I actually saw what this guy was talking about this morning. A tractor trailer had flipped over on the side of the road. didn’t look like anyone was injured and the accident wasn’t obstructing traffic. Of course rubbernecking caused a huge backlog of traffic. Fluid Dynamics to the rescue!

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Sniff… Sniff… OK, You’re Cool.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

DAP, or Dog Appeasing Pheremone has been shown to reduce barking and make dogs more friendly to strangers. I can’t wait until we combine HAP (Human Appeasing Pheremone) with Smellovision. If only I could give a dose of this to irrate help desk callers.

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Sliders == NOPE.

Monday, April 26th, 2004

A recent experiment appears to have invalidated the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Damn. This one was my favorite, too. Kills a lot of good science fiction with cold hard science reality though.