Swans on Tea

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Date: October 23rd, 2008

No Need To Add This to My Xmas Wish List

23 October, 2008 (03:44) | Tech, Toys | 1 comment

Hover-Q mini IR Hovercraft.
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OMGICGMWOFE
(Omigod, I can’t get my wallet out fast enough)

Hear Here

23 October, 2008 (03:44) | Physics, Time |

Ran across this while Googling for something else. NPR interviewed some of my colleagues about the master clock a while back. This aired in January 2007.
The Atomic Secrets of Accurate Time Keeping
I keep forgetting to use the bell ringing analogy when I explain how clocks work. (oh, and when the interviewer says “and [...]

They Don’t Know the Words

23 October, 2008 (03:43) | Other science, Photos | 4 comments

The Incredible Beauty of Hummingbirds in Flight
OK, Pedantic man says they are stills, and hummingbirds hover, so they’re not really showing flight.
Here’s one I took a few years ago. Not quite as high resolution, because didn’t (don’t) have a zoom lens that zooms in very much, so this is just a cropped portion of [...]

 

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