The Universal Globe Spins in the Wrong Direction
What a geek I am. Here we were at Universal Studios Park in Orlando, FL to visit Potter World and the first thing I notice is the Universal Globe is spinning in the wrong direction. [...]
What a geek I am. Here we were at Universal Studios Park in Orlando, FL to visit Potter World and the first thing I notice is the Universal Globe is spinning in the wrong direction. [...]
This is one of the best lines from a movie. It set the attitude which later lead to the man-machine battles in the little known 1989 movie, Moontrap, staring Walter Koenig (Ensign Chekov), and Bruce [...]
The competition is surging ahead. A few past public product failures are casting doubts on the ability of the company. The Boss feels under pressure to show the competition up, and he is pressing his product development team to deliver something that will blow the completion away.
published in EE Times “The Voyager spacecraft has left the solar system,” read many headlines over the last few months. But its predecessor, the Pioneer spacecraft, should not be overshadowed. It left an important legacy [...]
published in EE Times NASA scientists reported Nov 4, 2014, on the summary of results from the third year of the Kepler Space Telescope observations. Based on the results from measurements on 40,000 Sun-like stars, [...]
published in EE Times “We’re on our way to Mars!” Dr. Fran Bagenal, spokesperson for the NASA’s MAVEN project team at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, shouted [...]
published in EE Times Looking for that perfect Christmas gift that will give your 6- to 14-year-old a taste of the most basic engineering principle — that you can change your world if you can [...]
MIT Professor Emeritus John G. King (SB 1950, PhD), experimental physicist and pioneer in atomic clocks, fundamental physics experiments and physics education, was honored by more than 60 colleagues and former students on April 1, [...]
Take 5,000 science fiction fans, 100 famous authors, artists, publishers and editors, 300 dealers of science fiction and fantasy books and memorabilia, mix in too many parties and not enough sleep and stir for five [...]
“There is a suspected correlation to 60 Hz electric fields from power lines and leukemia in children,” Dr Robert Ashley, a retired electrical engineering professor told a meeting of the IEEE on Monday, October 16, [...]
We have all suffered through the limitations of viewing the stars from beneath the blanket of our thick atmosphere, especially thickened by summer humidity here in Kansas. While ground based optical observations suffer from dust [...]
“Ever since I was 5 years old, all I ever wanted to do was tell people about the weather,” Gary Lezak, Chief Meteorologist at KSHB Channel 41, in Kansas City, KS said today, April 3, [...]
In “The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course”, by Brian Greene, posted in the OpEd section of the New York Times, Sept 12, 2008 , Greene, a professor of Math and Physics at Colombia [...]
Three themes permeated many of the sessions at the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, MO June 1-5, 2008. The International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009 is going to be a BIG, world [...]
In 1301, the medieval Italian painter Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), observed Halley’s comet, which he memorialized as the star of Bethlehem in his painting, Adoration of the Magi. Almost 700 years later, he was honored [...]
David Letterman made famous his “Top Ten” List. Richard Talcott, a senior editor of Astronomy Magazine created a Top Ten List that Letterman would probably never put on his show. To highlight the 35th anniversary [...]
“They are like a hot lump of coal slowly cooling”, Ashley Yeager describes white dwarfs in her piece, “Dead – But Not Duds” in Science News, Oct 11, 2008. White dwarfs, the dead corpse of [...]
Figure 1. Measured (dots) and calculated (line) orbital position of S0-2 based on 16 years of observations. The orbit matches Kepler’s law perfectly. From Ghez, et.al., Astrophysical Journal, Aug 21, 2008. Peer toward the Milky [...]
“Death Star Gamma-Ray Gun Pointed Straight at Earth” So read the headline on Fox News, March 5, 2008. This was no joke. In fact, it was based on nine years of observations on WR104, a [...]
This was the title of a panel on which I was invited to participate at DesignCon 2010. Of all my DesignCon activities, preparing and presenting at this panel was the most fun I had. Joining [...]