Solar Impulse 2 coming in to land after the record-breaking Japan-Hawaii trip | Photo: © Solar Impulse, Revillard, Rezo.ch Solar Impulse Makes It Solar Impulse 2 completed the seventeenth and final leg of its zero-fuel circumnavigation […]
Photo: Quinn Dombrowski, CC BY-SA 2.0 For the most part I’ve been trying to ignore the DNC about as much as I ignore the RNC. Not so much because the DNC folks say the same […]
Photo: Amit Patel, CC BY 2.0 PhD candidate and friend of This Week In Tomorrow Alicia Rich is trying her hand at community-funded science with a kickstarter-like campaign to fund research needed to keep protected chimpanzee populations genetically-diverse […]
Ray Kurweil, Futurist | Photo: Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA 2.0 *** Elle sent me this article yesterday by Matt Novak over at Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog. It’s called “Ray Kurzweil Is Talking Bullshit Again,” and it argues […]
We could get Peter Singer to design the curriculum… or not | Photo: Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0 *** I just finished reading this interesting op-ed over at The Atlantic by Paul Barnwell titled “Students’ Broken […]
Photo: @Team_Barrowman It’s Monday. You’re feeling down in the dumps. Nothing will ever be right again. Except no, because this happened this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con: Yes Squirrel Girl happened @Comic_Con […]
Goodbye, Videotape Many of you reading this won’t remember ever having VCRs. Heck, half of my students haven’t ever held a floppy disk in their hands. But the war between VHS and Beta ended long […]
Catcalling | Photo: Michael, CC BY 2.0 So believe it or not, I can occasionally be in a good mood. This week happens to be one of those occasions. Partly because in order to deal […]
Photo: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 Why how warm it “feels” changes when you cross the border. *** So it’s been hot, not just here, but everywhere. In fact, June was the hottest June on record. […]
Falcon Heavy (Artist’s Rendering) | Image: SpaceX, CC0 (Public Domain) How Elon Musk’s rocketry company SpaceX plans to keep the coming-soon Falcon Heavy cheap has been a matter of public record for some time: just […]