Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080812
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Check out NASA’s 12-TET Rover, a future extraterrestrial and terrestrial explorer that changes its shape to crawl, climb, and squeeze through any terrain (633MB downloadable animation of it available here) (HT BMF).
12-TET Rover
Credit: NASA
Nikon has collected its awesome microscopy photos into one online gallery (HT BMF).
The CherryPal computer uses only 2 watts of energy, has no moving parts, and works almost entirely through softwares kept online… It’s sounds amazing and plausible, but the site design and paypal for payments make me wonder if it’s on the up and up (HT Clint).
National Geographic has a comprehensive article on industrial meat, which explains why you should continue eating mass quantities of beef if you enjoy eating endocrine-disrupting dioxins, prions that cause Mad-Cow Disease, animal-tissue infections and disease, and lots and lots of cow poop. Yum!
MAKE has the tech-specs on the lensless $10 microscope.
Lensless Microscope
Credit: Make
This public service announcement brought to you by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA): Babies need time on their tummies to develop motor skills.
Capsaicin is the chemical that makes hot peppers spicy-hot, and apparently they induce thermogenesis in cells converting their energy into actual heat too.
Physics proves the granny-shot is best for basketball freethrows. Take THAT all my grade-school peers who made fun of me!!! Thpppt! On you! Thpppt! I say!
Animation of Sea Ice Concentration:
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12-TET Rover Credit: NASA |
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Lensless Microscope Credit: Make |
