The “GoldenColor Classic” – Upgrade Shenanigans!
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Almost a year ago posted this page with info on his “Golden Color Classic”, with the project stuck at an upgrade to an LC 630 motherboard, I thought my goal of creating a “poor man’s iPod” was dead. What I wanted to accomplish was an elegant mp3 server and Internet radio station that I could [...]
Laser Refraction Demonstration
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A good idea for illustrating refraction is using a laser with some sort of reflective medium in an aquarium. If you’ve never tried it before, I highly recommend Kaleidoscopic fluid… you can find it in your Boreal science supply catalog;
I add about 75-100ml of the fluid to a small aquarium full of water, and then [...]
A Nerd’s Atomic Paradise
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Being the ultimate nerd, I carry a periodic table with me every wherever I go. What if a person accosts me on the subway, demanding to know the atomic molar mass of vanadium? You can never be too careful.I can understand however, why some of you would not want to be caught with a periodic [...]
Interface Osmosis Lab
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Yesterday promised an idea for the sometimes annoying osmosis lab involving a dialysis baggie and glass tubing;index
  Instead of waiting for 20 minutes or longer just to see a small amount of solution movement up the tube, I decided to hook up a low pressure sensor (see above) to the top of the glass tube – [...]
The biomedical industry should concentrate more on research
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Investments in production are down in the field and pharmaceutical industries are turning to relationships with research or public institutions (hospitals, clinics …). A growing number of clinical trials should emerge in 2010.
Soo Kee Chee, director of the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) said that academic institutions are beginning to conduct clinical trials for [...]
Coral Reef: marine reserves against climate change
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Faced with attacks by global warming, corals will arrive may not recover and may disappear. That is the fatal predictions of scientists. A study by the University of Exeter brings some hope to these organizations.
Rosetta reveals the nature of the asteroid Steins
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The close views of the asteroid (2867) Steins, obtained with the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) on Rosetta, have provided extensive new measurements of physical properties of the asteroid main belt.
Gilles Cuny – Paleontologist(1965 – …)
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Born in 1965 in Paris, Gilles Cuny studied natural science and paleontology at the University Pierre and Marie Curie – Paris 6. After a dissertation on the biological crisis of Triassic-Jurassic boundary edited by Eric Buffetaut, Gilles spent 5 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol in England, where he specialized in [...]
Opening a center for energy research in Galway
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A new center for energy research has just been launched at the National University of Ireland Galway in western Ireland. This center will work on new sources of energy generation from micro-organisms, such as improving the performance of wind turbines. Besides research activities, it also perform the functions of education [...]
The award honors Max Planck research on collective memory
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The price of the Max Planck Research, with a total of 1.5 million was awarded in 2009 two researchers whose work focuses on the history of memory. Traditionally awarded to a German scientist and a foreign researcher, the price this year was won by Aleida Assmann, professor of English literature at the [...]
