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Date: August 1st, 2008

A Mighty Wind

1 August, 2008 (03:59) | Business, Tech | 1 comment

Oregon approves what will temporarily be the largest land-based wind farm in the world. 909 MW peak power.

There was a Crooked Radiometer

1 August, 2008 (03:58) | History, Physics | 1 comment

That had a crooked vane
Solving its crooked behavior
Became a crooked pain
Light Mills
A fairly comprehensive discussion of the wrong and (probably) right answers for the rotation of a Crookes radiometer.
via Fine Structure

Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Good-Looking Corpse

1 August, 2008 (03:58) | Other science | No comments

. . . does not apparently apply to the male anglerfishes of the superfamily Ceratiidae
When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a [...]

 

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