Global Spin

The Solar System’s planetary roll call just got longer. From today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: One of the strangest objects in the outer Solar System was classified as a dwarf planet last week and given the name Haumea. This designation makes Haumea the fifth designated dwarf planet after Pluto, Ceres, Eris, and Makemake. Haumea’s [...]

Posted by Chris in News, Science, Space on September 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off

[from my GeekDad post] Robert Woodhead, self-described Mad Overlord and all-around geek, has posted an amazing amount of detail from his recent experiment in seeing how the Diet Coke & Mentos reaction works in microgravity. It’s a modification of the now-standard geyser-producing demonstration, but with a twist: performing the trick on a Zero G flight [...]

Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Science, Space on September 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off

If science were outlawed, only outlaws would be scientists. …and that would be pretty cool. (inspired by Frontalot and Dr. Horrible)

Posted by Chris in Science on July 24th, 2008 | Comments Off

[from Geekdad] In the spirit of the awesome maverick science-fair project[1], I give you Daniel Burd and his amazing plastic-eating microbes. “Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have this avalanche of plastic bags falling on top of me,” he said. “One day, I got tired [...]

Posted by Chris in Geekdad, News, Science on May 29th, 2008 | Comments Off

The new endeavor, named Virgle, has been written up on the Google blog by Sir Richard Branson. Radcliffs, get your rockets ready!

Posted by Deana in April Foolishness, Blog, Business, Fun, Humor, News, Oddly Enough, Science, Space, Travel, You have got to be kidding on April 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments »