http://ideonexus.com Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Step the First Download Miro Player, the free and open-source RSS aggregator for video podcasts. I'm sure there are others, but Miro is, to my experience, the sleekest and most user friendly. Miro (Formerly "Democracy Player") Step the Second Subscribe to the following shows: Nova's Science Now presents engaging science from a longtime standard in ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/04/how-to-turn-your-pc-into-a-science-tv/ Have a moment of Zen with some stunning aerial photos of Dutch Tulip farms, copyrighted, so below is a photo of a Portland, Oregon farm to entice you. A tulip farm near Portland, OR and Mount Hood. Credit: Jas&Suz Language is an inherent faculty of the brain, and various languages express it differently. The ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/04/science-etcetera-venusday-20080704/ Is there anything more amusing than watching dittheads work themselves up into a frothing, impotent rage when confronted with Reality's liberal bias? Most recently they've started rolling around, slobbering all over themselves over this video of Harry Reid pointing out that "Coal makes us sick:" How dare he say that Oil ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/03/envirowacko-harry-reid-says-coal-makes-us-sick/ 100 AUs away in space lies the Heliopause, where the solar wind from our Sun hits the rest of the Galaxy, where our solar system officially ends, and the two Voyager probes are mapping it. Hot ions in the heliosheath Credit: University of California, Berkeley; L. Wang Congress will (barely) continue funding Fermilab. A ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/03/science-etcetera-jupiterday-20080703/ AAAAAaaaaaAAAAAiiiiiiIIIIIIIEEEEEEeeeeeeEEEEE!!! (HT Oranchak) http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/02/omfsm-this-is-sofa-king-bad-on-so-many-levels-wrong-no-bad-fail-fail-fail/ One of the things I loooooooooove about science writing is all the free stuff. Scientists aren't like those crummy jerks at the Associated Press, scientists want you to talk about what they're doing. They want us bloggers to quote them, link to them, post their photos. Scientists give away tons ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/02/science-is-free-as-in-beer/ Below is one of the spooky proposed landing sites for Mars Science Lander. Mars Science Lander Landing Site Credit: NASA Har! Har! Har! Those silly dittoheads are at it again, this time demanding a researcher publish his data for a paper that demonstrated the evolution of bacteria. If they had only bothered ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/02/science-etectera-mercuryday-20080702/ My latest article is up at the Science Creative Quarterly: Explaining Our World: Science VS Creationism. My previous articles are still available there as well: Tragedy of the Commons Explained With Smurfs Science Fiction VS Fantasy: An Opinionated Guide How To Fly Enjoy! http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/01/published-at-the-scq-explaining-our-world-science-vs-creationism/ "civilization is a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Welles It took life on Earth millions years to figure out how to digest cellulose, the hard wall that makes up the cells of plants, efficiently to get at the energy inside it. In fact, complex lifeforms, such as Cows and Termites, ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/01/putting-microbes-to-work-for-us/ I want a gun that shoots these. Using laser beams and electric fields, Rice physicists pushed an electron to orbit far from the nucleus of a potassium atom, creating a millimeter-sized "Bohr Atom." Millimeter-Sized Atom Credit: Jeff Mestayer/Rice University Perspective please. Fear of flying after 9/11 killed 1600 people who chose to ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/07/01/science-etcetera-marsday-20080701/ WALL-E's Curiosity Gives it Purpose Credit: Pixar Studios Great Science Fiction films come out so rarely that I am overjoyed when a movie like Pixar's WALL-E hits the screens. This is one of those rare SF stories that ventures into the distant future, a place so alien most SF writers don't want ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/06/30/prescience-futurism-hard-sf-go-see-wall-e/ Happy Meteor Day!!! It is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event, when a meteor exploded over Russia with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, leveling 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers. GrrlScientist has a great write-up of the incident and what ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/06/30/science-etcetera-moonday-20080630/ Most of my photos from this large, science playground of a room came out as just blurs of motion, so dynamic are the displays. Giant molecules, genetically engineered potato plants, microbes, microscopes, and sculptures of the atomic fill the area, begging to be played with. Thermal Ryan View the complete flickr set ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/06/29/adventuring-ny-hall-of-science-center-room/ "Father," Demetrius' voice trembled, his youthful blue eyes were swollen and watery, "I cannot absolve myself of these doubts." Lord Balthasar placed two firm and reassuring hands on Demetrius' shoulders, welcoming this distraction from the unrelenting hunger pains that plagued them all, "It is uncommon for one to question their faith ... http://ideonexus.com/2008/06/28/flash-sf-story-scriptures/