Oregon approves what will temporarily be the largest land-based wind farm in the world. 909 MW peak power.
Daily Archives: August 1, 2008
There was a Crooked Radiometer
That had a crooked vane
Solving its crooked behavior
Became a crooked pain
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
. . . 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 pair of gonads, which release sperm in response to hormones in the female’s bloodstream indicating egg release.