Swans on Tea

Physics, tech and humor. Because science and learning are cool, and life’s too short not to laugh.

Entries Comments


Date: April 19th, 2008

Damn Hippies

19 April, 2008 (14:54) | Geocaching, Rants | No comments

I went out geocaching in the wonderful weather today. First stop was to check on caches I have placed, in response to a couple of emails from people who couldn’t find them. Sure enough, they had been muggled. One cache almost completely gone — only the lid and the logbook could be [...]

Take the Creationism Challenge

19 April, 2008 (14:32) | Antiscience | 6 comments

An online colleague at my blog-host, SFN, makes the following observation:
Wouldn’t it be amusing if science groups started leading tours of the Creation Museum, lead by archeologists pointing out the flaws in their reasoning and why evolution really does answer those questions?
It would be a great response to that story out of Colorado about creationists [...]

Let’s Sing! Spring is Here, After All

19 April, 2008 (07:10) | Satire, Silly, Video | No comments

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
So, I’m off to the park a little later on today …

Infrared Swan

19 April, 2008 (04:57) | Cool stuff, Physics | 2 comments

Infrared Swan
The temperature range in these images (and others on the site) mean that these were taken with a thermal imaging camera; 300-310K blackbody spectra peak somewhere between 9 - 10 microns, rather than a regular ol’ digital camera with the IR filter disabled.
Frankly, though, most of the other birds and mammals in [...]

 

This blog proudly hosted by ScienceForums.Net Blogs. Subscribe to our RSS Logo global RSS feed. FireStats icon Powered by FireStats