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Science daily has an article discussing a new book, "What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous," by George and Roberta Poinar. In it they discuss the effect that insect born disease and parasites possibly had on the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Modern technigues have shown that diseases like malaria existed during the Cretaceous and were
I am not only a geek who loves technology but a geek who loves elevators. The past three years I've been following the progress of the "Space Elevator", including competitions, cool animated PBS videos, and news regarding LiftPort, the company who is spearheading the Space Elevator project. While being an optimist at heart, the conclusion that I've come up after reading all the posts, news stories and competition reports is that we are far from developing an actual working "Space Elevator."
A new ability that is similar to a healing process found in nature could let aircrafts mend themselves during flight This self healing process could help in the construction of new airplanes in many ways. By making them lighter, help fuel savings, cut cost for airlines and passengers, and reducing carbon emissions.
Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympic runner, has won a major victory with the Court of Arbitration for the Olympic Games. Pistorius' name may not be familiar to you, but his nicknames might be. Sometimes called the "Blade Runner" or "The Fastest Man on No Legs," Pistorius arrived on this planet with a birth defect that necessitated the amputation of
It's been a very busy octane fueled week for me with a motor show and the F1 circus just winding up here in Melbourne (I hope I never have to choose between gadgets and cars!) One of the things that had me thinking this week was the number of "green" cars that were on show and the varieties of methods
A group of eminent natural sciantists from some of the worlds best know instituations (like Harvard, the Smithsonian and the Natural History Museum) have gotten together to launch an ambitious project to build a catalog of the 1.8 Million known species on earth. The Encyclopedia of Life wants to build a dedicated web site for each species within the encyclopedia,
I put out a challenge to my podcast listeners to try and guess what Robert Scoble cried over when he saw it, and today he revealed it is the WorldWide Telescope.