Swans on Tea

He was on the other night, but you can travel through time (or not) and see the video: The Colbert Report and Sean’s post on the experience

Bart’s Blackboard
Archive of Bart Simpson’s Blackboard Writings

Brian Cox on The Colbert report
You’re saying sensible things. This has gone horribly wrong!

David Saltzberg, the science consultant for the TV show The Big Bang Theory, has a blog explaining the science: The Big Blog Theory
Its blogroll needs some character development, methinks.

Hopper, that is
Military robot ‘hops’ over walls
Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot – which is being developed for the US military – uses its four wheels to get around.
But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated “leg” to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.
The ad in the video is longer [...]

NFL TV Maps 2009
BTW, watching football (and a little golf) in HD was great. I get NBC and FOX in HD on broadcast; CBS doesn’t come in (yet).

*Too Much Time On Their Hands
Leave It to Beaver: 1958
Someone watched an episode from “Leave It to Beaver” and freeze-framed a note from the principal that got sent home with ‘the Beav.’

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Lew Burdette just hit a home run and Milwaukee leads seven to one in the series.
This is the last line of [...]

Cracked: If Hollywood Taught Science Class

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Reconstruction of a planet’s bizarre orbit with Ptolemy’s system of epicycles and deferents.
What’s behind this? Any periodic function can be represented as a Fourier series. All that’s really happening here is one is plotting it in polar coordinates, and the Fourier components [...]

The testosterone channel
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The Daily Show as Legitimate Journalism
Jon Stewart makes no pretense that he’s all about the entertainment, but I think the article is right — he does ask the tough questions when the time comes and shows good insight into issues.
The venerable Sunday morning news shows, oftentimes featuring some of the most reputable people in journalism, largely [...]

Quantum setback for warp drives
Bad news I’m afraid — it looks as if faster-than-light travel isn’t possible after all. That’s the conclusion of a new study into how warp drives would behave when quantum mechanics is taken into account. “Warp drives would become rapidly unstable once superluminal speeds are reached,” say Stefano Finazzi at the [...]