Archive for April 2004

Hydrogen-Rich and Fancy-Free in 12 Seconds

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

From the “mother” of all sources, a new device to reform hydrogen from gasoline has been developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [...]


DNA 2.0

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

The evolution of life over 3.5 billion years is such an awesome story that it threatens the power of several establishments. A small mind is a mind more easily controlled, and evolution does [...]


Stupid Barrels Avoid Stupid Rodeo Clowns Who Drive

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

You know those bright orange and white “bollards” placed on roads to direct traffic at construction sites? They are placed by construction workers, a task long considered to be quite dangerous. New [...]


Saturn Approaches

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

Cassini-Huygens has sent back another glorious image of its destination. In this image, Saturn is much larger and more detailed than previous [...]


The Columbia Hills on Mars

Saturday, April 24th, 2004

The rover Spirit took a panoramic picture of its destination, the Columbia Hills.


The Next Revolutionary Change

Friday, April 23rd, 2004

The Communications Revolution (including the Internet and, even more profoundly, the future Grid and Mesh) has brought us extraordinary change, but there is a less obvious revolution in the wings that I believe [...]


The Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, and Archaea Kingdoms

Friday, April 23rd, 2004

I was interested to learn this morning that biologists no longer divide all life into two cellular kingdoms; they divide life into three kingdoms. When I took college biology as recently as the [...]


Cold Fusion Returns?

Friday, April 23rd, 2004

Fifteen years ago scientists from the University of Utah claimed to have created a fusion reaction at room temperature. I remember at the time that it was a major news story because it [...]


Pondering the Technological Singularity

Thursday, April 22nd, 2004

If there is such a thing as a Technological Singularity, I predict that there will be a general trend of accelerated change punctuated by sudden, massive, and far-reaching paradigm shifts [...]


Two Female Mice Produce Female Daughter

Thursday, April 22nd, 2004

I once read an article about the possibility of two males having a baby based on both their genetic material through future medical techniques. The article specifically stated producing a child from the [...]