Tag Archives: science

Beauty in vectors

May 25th, 2010

50 Major cities of the world mapped via geotagged Flickr photos. Beauty in vectors, from the Flickr Blog.

Tags: ,
Comments Off

Slow motion Apollo 11 Saturn V launch

April 25th, 2010

Stunning slow motion footage of the first 30 seconds of the Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch.

Tags: , , , , ,
Comments Off

Teething troubles

March 30th, 2010

Since you ask, Cern’s previous machine, the Large Electron Positron collider, had teething troubles too. Weird signals came and went. They realised, eventually, that the machine was reacting to Earth tides: the pull of the moon on the Earth’s crust was making the land around the collider heave up and down, causing a 1mm change in […]

Tags: , ,
Comments Off

Testing

March 29th, 2010

One test is worth a thousand expert opinions. Bill Nye — the Science Guy

Tags: , ,
Comments Off

The Quarter Mile Groove

March 2nd, 2010

Did you know that the groove in a 12″ record is a quarter of a mile long? Via the ever awesome Denise.

Tags: , , , ,
Comments Off