Words From The Ether
I finally gave in to the temptation and jailbraked (or pwned, if you prefer) my iPhone a couple days ago. It was so worth it. Foremost among the plethora of new features my phone now has are the...
View ArticleDaylight Awesome Time
Daylight Savings Time is one of my favorite annual events. It’s sunny and spring-like on this late-winter day, and I’ll have an extra hour to enjoy it when I finish working today. Maybe I’ll try to go...
View Article(No) space shuttle launch tonight
I was just about to post to remind everyone to watch the space shuttle Discovery launch tonight, but I just learned that NASA has scrubbed the launch due to a leak discovered (discovery-d?) in the...
View ArticleOuranos ex machina
Dear Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Verily, I beseech ye to establish a Nobel Prize for Magnificence, and award the first one to Steve Eves. Humbly, simian Seriously, wow. Copyright © 2013 Survival...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
Unexpected hiatus, it seems – over 2 months without an update! I’m not letting this blog die, though. At the moment I am very busy but I wanted to post quickly to say Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!...
View ArticleFour Centuries of Optical Zoom
Today marks another landmark scientific anniversary – the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first telescope. It was on this day in 1609 that Galileo presented his prototype 8x-magnification telescope to...
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