Geek Politics 101

Night flights are worse for global warming

Seeded on Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:41 PM EDT (abc.net.au)

The effects of contrails on global warming, and a possible way to avoid having the contrails even form.

science, global-warming, envinrment

Swordplay and Rotational Dynamics (or poking people with a sharp stick)

Seeded on Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:14 PM EDT (arstechnica.com)

This link is to a blog entry about a paper at the Institute of Physics analyzing the physics of sword design as it relates to the center of percussion, and how weight added to the pommel and removed from a groove in the middle of the blade improves maneuverability.

science, physics, sword

High Pressure Carbon Dioxide Glass Raises Questions

Seeded on Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:51 AM EDT (physorg.com)

Carbon dioxide can form a glasslike material under extremely high pressure, raising the question of what the interiors of gas giants might be like.

science, space, physics, chemistry

Japanese Cyborg Suits

Seeded on Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:33 PM EDT (theepochtimes.com)

Sweet pic of the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) suit, and a more prosaic walker cyborg suit, the WL-16III Walkbot.

technology, disabled, japanese, cyborg

Adobe Makes Microsoft Remove PDF Support

Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 5:55 PM EDT (blogs.guardian.co.uk)

This is ridiculous. Saving a file as a PDF has been available in OpenOffice forever. Now Adobe is threatening to sue Microsoft unless they remove the option from the upcoming version of Microsoft Office. PDF is just a file format.

technology, microsoft, adobe, pdf

Cyborg City

Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 5:41 PM EDT (nwaonline.net)

A neat little rundown of current and upcoming machines that doctors can implant in your body for different conditions. We're all becoming cyborgs.

health, brain, depression, cyborg

Monkey Grams

Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 5:31 PM EDT (emediawire.com)

Look out teddy bears, monkey grams are the wave of the future.

odd-news, monkey

Monkey burglar steals pants

Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 5:29 PM EDT (chinadaily.com.cn)

Mr. Wang thinks that the monkey who stole his pants may have been trained to steal. You can't make stuff like this up.

odd-news, funny, monkey, wang

Amazing Bridge Photo

Seeded on Wed May 31, 2006 1:45 PM EDT (comagz.com)

Amazing engineering is shown in this picture of a bridge that carries one river over another river. Why did they have to do this? I have no idea. But I think it's 500 million euros well spent.

technology, photography, engineering, bridge

Guard at Three Mile Island plays video game, ignores inspector

Seeded on Tue May 30, 2006 2:03 PM EDT (tgdaily.com)

What more is there to say? The title says it all.

us-news, security, nuclear-power

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