Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Shaken, not stirred.
Ripple tank wall state
Originally seen on the falstad.com website, the ripple tank applet is wicked awesome.
It has been edited and can be opened on the Lecture Demonstration website.
Find Simulations on the left menu, and scroll to the bottom of the page. There is a paragraph with a ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
In Demo Veritas » Blog Archive » Ig Nobel moments of science
Cold Boyles was the riskier, and where is that video from the Ig Nobels?
This is a 44 megabyte video videooo Here it is. of the Cold Boyles experiment with an evacuated bell jar and liquid nitrogen cold ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Safety.
Okay, last week was fun. Elder hard drives were disassembled, parts sorted and examined, properties of materials encountered, exotic sub-assemblies marveled over. A splendid time with an undergrad, a post-doc, two friends from MoS, an SEAS colleague and an MIT rocket scientist, all solving similar tangible puzzles. Always available for ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Is the satellite a problem because of hydrazine?I don't know if regular people can pronounce reidio-nuclides and long term thermal electric generators, but that streak of dust is going around the world many times and will land on detectors everywhere. Better to blow it up first? Huh huh huh.In the ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
A weaken'd version of the same was presented in Make magazine as a Howtoon.
I've let my subscription lapse with a recently canceled credit card. I got tired of Wired after three years way back, and only check it out now because it's just about free. Like the Phoenix, ...
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