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Date: July 16th, 2008

Give ‘Til it Hurts

16 July, 2008 (17:01) | Science-general, Tech |

NASA Wants Your Urine
Yes, you read that right: NASA needs your urine.
The drive is to benefit NASA’s fledgling Orion Program, which aims to put astronauts back on the moon by 2020. The pee drive is to help engineers working on designing the new spaceship’s toilet.
I’ve got other NASA-related news, but I’m holding that in until [...]

The Giant’s Shoulders #1

16 July, 2008 (10:15) | Blog Compendia |

Is up, over at Blog Around the Clock. Classic science.

Nobody Knows You’re a Dog, Either

16 July, 2008 (03:20) | Humor, Math |

Actual Age of Men Who Claim to Be 29 Online

Looking for Energy in all the Right Places

16 July, 2008 (03:20) | Body, Physics, Tech |

Bionic bra: Victoria’s circuit
An attempt to harness, as it were, the kinetic energy stored in the ones that bounce.
It turns out that the physics of breast motion has been studied closely for the last two decades by a gamut of researchers – most of them women.
Formally, perhaps.
Lawson explains that breasts move on three different axes: [...]

Out of My Depth

16 July, 2008 (03:19) | Physics | 1 comment

In depth: depth of focus and depth of field over at Skulls in the Stars. Interesting photos, using depth-of-field, that make images look like they are miniature scenes.

 

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