“Easter Island dirt may hold key to longer life”
Hm… I could use a few extra healthy decades…
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax”
I was born in 1970, the year after the first moon landing. Throughout my entire life, every reference I heard about it silently reinforced the assumption that mankind had been to the moon. So when I heard that some people thought that it was a hoax made in a movie studio, I was perplexed. I …
Plasma Drive Now a Reality!
Chang DÃaz believes that VASIMR could usefully glean its electric power from solar panels if it was operating close to the sun (Mars would be the extreme outer limit) or from onboard nuclear reactors further away. He calculates that a nuclear VASIMR craft could get to Mars in just 39 days, as opposed to the …
“Pacmba!”
Friend and occasional-commenter c-square sent me this video link. It does seem that the Roomba and Pac-Man go together remarkably well. 🙂
“Baby pictures in lost wallets increase the chance they will be returned”
Interesting psychological information, but an even more interesting practical application: put some baby pictures in your wallet, even if you don’t have any children. 🙂
“US, South Korea site attacks traced back to UK”
Hm. I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t immediately attack North Korea as some people were suggesting.
“Swearing mitigates pain”
Honest, that’s what it says! 🙂
“Read It Later” iPhone App — Excellent!
I’ve been using the free Read It Later add-on (RIL from here on) for Firefox for quite a while now. It’s really great for marking pages that I want to read, but don’t want to take time out from whatever I’m doing when I find them. It’s also very nice because I often have my …
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“Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?”
Someone recently asked me what I thought about the Google ChromeOS announcement. I think a lot of things about it, but this article sums them up extremely well, and adds several more that I hadn’t considered too. The bottom line: like the Chrome browser, I don’t see it as necessary. Neither will put much added …
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“Lockpicking”
Check out both of the links here. Fascinating and disquieting at the same time. I always knew that locks were only a nuisance to professional lockpickers, but I didn’t realize just how easy it was to learn to pick them… or how quickly even the best locks can be beaten.