Saturday, March 20, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Google Helps You Ride Your Bike to Work
Google will help you ride your bicycle to work: it promises to map safe riding routes in 150 cities.
Folks, if I can ride to work (and I can, most of the time), most of you can too.
I ride a bike to work because it's fun -- not to save the world, the environment, etc.
All hail Google. And I'm referring to the company rather than the number.
Will Google's successor be Googleplex?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Prime Mover of Arecibo Radio Telescope Dies
This is sad news: W. E. Gordon, Creator of Link to Deep Space, Dies at 92 NYTimes (Feb. 26, 2010):
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William E. Gordon, an electrical engineer who conceived, designed, built and operated the world’s largest radio telescope, which has been described as Earth’s ear to outer space, died on Feb. 16 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 92.
The story made me think back to my teenage years when I trooped out one weekend, with some scientists, to the Ohio State University radio telescope north of Columbus, in Delaware, Ohio. (Apparently this telescope later came to be called "Big Ear.") The main receiver on that thing-a-majig - was a flat rectangular thing that tilted on just one axis. But the whole apparatus was awesome. I tried to imagine -- without much success -- how one would decipher the signals it received.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
A Timely Reminder: The Ignored Tragedy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
"Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake." Nicholas D. Kristoff, Orphaned, Raped and Ignored NYTimes (Jan. 30, 2010).
Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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