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Can you imagine this guy as your 8th grade science teacher?  Amazing!  When I watched this TED Talk by Clifford Stoll, I couldn’t help but think of the Tigger song.

A wonderful thing is a Tigger;
A Tigger’s a wonderful thing.
Their tops are made out of rubber,
their bottoms are made out of spring
They’re bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,
The most wonderful thing
about Tiggers is:
I’m the only one.

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After Christmas, I picked up a Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-Ray player for $129.  In addition to the standard blu-ray and DVD playback are internet services for Blockbuster Video, Netflix, Pandora Internet Radio, and Youtube.  I tried Netflix back in 2000 but quit because the turnaround time to send in a movie and get the next one back was more than week.  I know they’ve fixed that by opening more distribution centers, but nonetheless, I haven’t gone back.  I’m also not into Youtube except for instructional type videos.  It was the Pandora service I was anticipating most. (continue reading…)

What nuclear fuel can be carried safely in your pocket, has a nearly inexhaustible supply in nature, leaves minuscule waste, and can run a reactor that could fit within a medium sized suburban house?  Need a hint?  Its named after a Norse god and was pretty much forgotten about by the nuclear power industry because it was too safe. (continue reading…)

Auto-Tune, that technology that lets the most untalented singers stay in tune, is used in this video to make clips from Carl Sagan’s 1980 miniseries Cosmos into a surprisingly enjoyable music video.  Kudos to whomever the talented person was who put this together.

Wanna see an actual video of what is believed to be a black hole at the center of our galaxy? (continue reading…)

Post-WWII Soviet Russia, experimental rocketry, corrosive chemicals, explosives, massive conflagration, flaming people. Thank God Apollo 1 didn’t end like this one, or we’d never have tried again. (continue reading…)

Wow!