It’s always thrilling when CERN releases an update on what they’ve been doing, and this time is no different. It’s even better because it often forces me to look up different terms, which I’m not familiar with. This time it was a unit called “barn” (check out the wikipedia explanation). So, it’s speculated that the LHC [...]
Monday, March 15, 2010
This is in fact the 5th part of a series you can find uploaded by this user, but I find that even by itself, it explains the major aspects of evolution in plain language and with great detail and talent; narrated by David Attenborough.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Employing the help of the Mini-SAR instrument (a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar), NASA managed to find more than 40 craters covered with ice. Despite the fact that the craters are relatively small, it’s estimated that there is about 600 million metric tons in that area. “The emerging picture from the multiple measurements and resulting data of [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
If you like lions, or watching natural documentaries, the odds are you’ve heard of George Adamson. Nicknamed “Baba ya Simba” (Father of Lions), Adamson lived an amazing life. Best known for his award winning documentary Born Free, he managed to live among lions and make them treat him as equals, resulting in a relationship of [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Copernicium is now officialy the newest and heaviest element in the periodic table, with an atomic number of 112 (which means that it has 112 protons in its nucleus); it’s also 277 times heavier than hydrogen. Named after astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, it follows a long tradition of naming elements after famous scientists; some of the latest [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
On the night of July 9, 1958, an earthquake struck Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle. The result was that about 30.6 million cubic meters of rock were loosened, being thrown from a height of 914 meters down onto the water mass. The impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the shoreline of Gilbert Inlet. [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
I found this TED talk a while back, and found it really interesting. Long story short, some of the most brilliant minds in the world would probably be diagnosed as authistic today. The world needs this kind of people, they’re the kind of people that can make leaps, and can solve problems people (even brilliant [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Caño Cristales is a river located in Northern Columbia, with a length of almost 100 km and a width of under 20 meters. If you look at it, you’d be tempted to think this is some sort of illusion or photographic trick, but you’d be wrong. It’s quite remote, and you can get there only by [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Eddy currents are electrical phenomena that take place when a conductor is exposed to an oscilation of the magnetic field due to the relative motion of the field source and conductor; rewind. You have a conductor, say a copper tube, and a magnet. One moves relative to the other and you’ve got current (basically a [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined Canada is the second largest country on the face of the Earth, but USA’s northern neighbor has a lot to brag about. Out of all the natural lakes in the world, more than 50 percent are situated in Canada. According to wikipedia, More than 60 percent of the [...]
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