Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Welcome to the Weather Dance!
A different kind of NCAA bracket – predict the temperature in the cities of the teams competing. “You are comparing expected high or low temperatures at the participating NCAA campuses on designated game days.”
Grand prize is a tornado chase May 29-June 2 in Tornado Alley!
Daaaaamn I want to win that!
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Wunder Blog : Weather Underground
Rather than dismiss the climate models as being too filled with uncertainty to be useful for performing climate simulations, Dr. Stone maintained that one can do an intelligent uncertainty analysis by varying two of the major uncertainties in a model simultaneously, and study the resulting model predictions. He described his group’s [...]
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Friday morning I went downtown to the IUPUI/Clarian med center and was a guinea pig for an alcohol research project. And got paid $50 to do it (and get paid $100 for the second and final visit in a couple weeks). It was a fascinating experience. From what Iv’e gathered, the study is looking at [...]
LiveScience.com – Don’t Bring Home the Bacon, Print It
Tissue engineers like Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina, and Thomas Boland of Clemson University, have been printing biomaterials with modified ink-jet printers.
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Just as printers contain inks of different colors, so tissue printers could contain different cell types to create complex structures.
Now, it seems [...]
Wunder Blog : Weather Underground ”
NASA’s top climate researcher has been told by his superiors to stop voicing his opinions on climate change. Dr. James Hansen, director of the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in a New York Times interview that the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2006
OKay, so to balance the extreme testosterone fueled childishness of my last post, I’ll link to few cool science things. Yay science!
Miniscule Motor Runs on Sunlight: Very very cool. A ‘nanomotor’ that runs on sunlight and that only emits electrons as ‘pollution’. Who knows what they’ll be used for but it’s still quite cool.
Survival of [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2006
The Primate Police: Monkey Cops Keep Groups in Line Sweet! Some monkeys appoint their own ‘police’ to keep the group in line. Monkeys, what can’t they do?
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Wunder Blog : Weather Underground
A study released by NASA yesterday confirmed that 2005 was the warmest year on record, narrowly beating out 1998. That year a strong El Niño–a warm water event in the eastern Pacific Ocean–added significant warmth to global temperatures. The new record was set without the help of an El Niño. This [...]
Very cool! Pre-Roman Tomb Found Beneath Roman Forum
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Can genetically modified yogurt bacteria fight HIV? Maybe. Incredibly cool.
