The science of Stealth
LJ has written an article exploring the science and feasibility of the technology from the movie Stealth. Stealth, for those of you that don’t know, is about “EDI (“Eddie”) a prototype Uninhabited...
View ArticleBuy your own DNA kit
You can now buy your own home DNA testing kits online from Amazon and Target. The kit doesn’t offer much, but it is cute. One option allows you to store it, and another, more expensive option allows...
View ArticleThe road to a science Ph.D.
Jonathan has done a bang-up writing about the road to a science Ph.D. Last week saw his first installment, and yesterday brings his follow-up. From week 1: The next few years are not always plain...
View ArticleLess help during disease outbreaks
The BBC is running a story about how there’s less volunteer help during disease outbreaks. Sometimes I wonder who funds these stories, and why the results are considered newsworthy. I realize the irony...
View ArticleThe battle for Evolution begins (again)
I have written extensively on evolution here on polyscience, and yesterday began what seems to be a redux of the Scopes Monkey Trial. The Dover Area School Board in Pennsylvania requires that teachers...
View ArticleRussia plans to mine the moon
I’d file this particular bit of news under the “I’ll believe it when I see it” section if I had one: the Russian Energia Space Corporation has unveiled plans to open a mine on the moon. Helium-3, a...
View ArticleMiscellania
School has been kicking my ass lately, so here’s a quote that I really like instead of a real writeup… “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and...
View ArticleBBC releases their wildlife archives
I really like the BBC. They’re all about making their content freely available. First it was all 9 of Beethoven’s symphonies, and now they’re releasing their wildlife archives for free as well. Access...
View ArticleCreationism to get a foothold in the UK?
In the last 12 months, we’ve seen a storm of Evolution/Intelligent Design debates. The arguable culmination of these proceedings has been the court case in Dover, PA in which Judge John E. Jones III...
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Google goes to Mars
Back in July of 2005, Google launched Google Moon, a map of the moon similar to their map of the Earth. Of course it doesn’t have roads and such because there aren’t any, and you can’t see things like...
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