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SolarSystemScope presents a very cool online interface for zooming around the solar system in a beautiful 3D model. The whole experience happens right in your web browser. Check it out! > Link: Solar System Scope | Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky . . . → Read More: Explore the Solar System and Night Sky in 3D 
The Spanish have been doing it for centuries–mixing cultures across time and heritage. The Alhambra, the Mosque of Cordoba, the Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca. Why not do it in the most modern of settings?
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center features the MareNostrum: a supercomputer housed in an . . . → Read More: World’s Most Beautiful Computer  FILED UNDER: Pictures & Videos, View  TAGGED: architecture, design, science  COMMENTS: 28 comments - (Comments are closed)The University of Arizona presents a well-produced series of engaging lectures on popular cosmology: the origins of the universe, black holes, dark matter, the big bang, and the search for (and understanding of) life in the universe. It’s all free on iTunes U–a fantastic source for free audio and video courses online. >> Link: Cosmic . . . → Read More: Cosmic Origins: Birth, Life, and Death of the Universe The Economist presents a thorough primer on what’s going on at Japan’s failed nuclear energy facilities–the science, technology, obstacles, crises, and solutions are all explained well. A good read if you want a high-level overview of the terrible situation there. >> Link: The post-earthquake nuclear crisis: The Japan syndrome | The Economist . . . → Read More: Japan’s Post-Quake Nuclear Energy Troubles Explained FILED UNDER: Articles, Learn, Read TAGGED: current events, news, science, technology COMMENTS: One comment - (Comments are closed)I just learned that Google is hosting a world-wide science fair this year. Thought about entering, but you have to be under 18 to submit. Looks cool though! And makes me wonder…how many things can Google do?! >> Link: Google Global Science Fair 2011 If you’re wondering what this wide-angle view of the universe tells us…
…read on: How did we get here? : Starts With A Bang Scientists announced today that “life” as we know it may not be…well, as we knew it. A microbe was discovered that uses arsenic to replicate and grow (no phosphorous in its DNA)–changing the notions of what the fundamental building blocks of life are. The discovery “does show that in other planetary environments organisms might be . . . → Read More: Life as We *Don’t* Know It Exciting news today as scientists announce the successful entrapment of antimatter. According to Nature: [A] research collaboration at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, has managed, 38 times, to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap for more than 170 milliseconds. The Economist presents a nice overview (in their usual cheeky tone). >> . . . → Read More: Antimatter of Fact… 
Greg Maddux hurls a curveball–er, optical illusion–for the Braves. After wondering for years about how curveballs curve and breaking balls break, we can finally rest easy knowing that the rules of physics are not being violated on the pitchers mound! ScienceNOW reports on how curveballs are the mental effects of the way our visual . . . → Read More: Baseball Magic Settled! The Curveball Is a Trick of the Eye This is like magnifying glasses and ants, only a mega casino is the magnifying glass and tourists are the ants. Somewhere in that analogy there’s poetry… Check out how the hot Las Vegas sun gets intensified to fry sunbathers at the pool:
>> Link: BLDGBLOG: Las Vegas Death Ray . . . → Read More: The Hottest Act in Vegas: Vdara Death Ray Astronomers report that they’ve found a rocky planet with an atmosphere that could support life — and it’s orbiting a star only 20 light years from our Sun. (Apologies to any extra-terrestrial readers for my heliocentric slant.) >> Link: Astronomers Find Most Earth-like Planet to Date | ScienceNOW . . . → Read More: A Planet That Resembles Our Own For anyone who’s ever been fascinated by science fair projects or Hollywood prop departments (I fall into both categories), you’ll appreciate this video from the New York Times. Diann Duthie is the art director for “The Dr. Oz Show” — a daily talk show hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz — that presents palatable high-level explanations . . . → Read More: Medical Props for TV |
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