Archive for July, 2008

Fun with science!

Making better wind turbines… by mimicking whale flippers.

Cornstarch + Water + Subwoofer = Fun with Physics

This guy takes advantage of the Leidenfrost Effect to dip his fingers into boiling oil to retrieve fried goods and doesn’t burn himself

And finally, this looks like an awesome time. The Mythbusters are attempting to recreate the legendary Archimedes Death Ray.. and you can volunteer to help!

And in something that isn’t related to science… I love coffee. I hate pretentious baristi.

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Long Time, No Update

It’s been just over a month since I last posted. It isn’t that I don’t have time, it’s that I just don’t really think about it. A lot of the time I’ll find something really interesting during my work day but by the time I get home it has made the rounds so much I’m tired of hearing about it and don’t feel like writing about it. The big problem is that blogging is sort of frowned upon from my work computer and blogging from my iPhone is a little rough over EDGE and the iPhone-friendly Wordpress admin plugin I installed. There is some pain involved with typing out links and such with two or three fingers. Then there is the fact that there is no copy and paste. I’m hoping there winds up being a free Wordpress blogging application in the App Store soon. That won’t resolve the typing long entries issue or the copy and paste issue, but it will resolve the web interface issue and might make other things easier.

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