Sunday, August 2, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009

Remember Those Photos?

Well, they were taken on July 16, 1945......

In New Mexico......

With a 10 foot lens that was seven miles from this event, at a shutter speed of 1/100,000,000th of a second......

The man who took these photos was world-renowned as the man who could stop time (due to his high-speed photography and film-making, he would become a professor at MIT with an entire educational center now named after him).

These are photos of the first nuclear bomb detonation.

Check out the Edgerton Center at MIT:

Edgerton Center

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

From the NY Times (And NOT Made Up......)

150th Anniversary of the most mis-quoted title in science history:
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Wish I had a dollar for every time I heard "Origin of the Species"
Enjoy.

Plus some other cool science stuff, with multi-media (oooo....)
Also presumably not made up.

NY Times Science

Kill the Bottles!!

Revolutions have to start somewhere....

The Telescope and Us

Nice Scientific American article on the telescope (now with bonus slide show!!)

10 Telescopes That Changed Our View of the Universe

Do You Have a Cat? This May Not Be News to You..

From 60 Second Science:

Your Cat Really Does Control You

The Link to the Main Podcast Site:

60 Second Science

More Short Science Podcasts from the American Chemical Society:

Byte-Size Science