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Project HARP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a joint project of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence created with the goal of studying ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost; whereas most such projects used expensive (and failure-prone) rockets, HARP used a non-rocket spacelaunch method based on a very large gun to fire the models to high altitudes and speeds.
weapons  science  usa  wtf  guns 
12 weeks ago by ignatz
Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
"The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions."
newyorker  psychology  science  history  via:nrrd 
february 2012 by ignatz
How Not To Do It: Ruining Stuff. In the Pipeline:
fine stories in the comment re: what's the most expensive thing you've seen wrecked?
science  failure  disasters 
august 2011 by ignatz
Schmidt Sting Pain Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.
via:popular  science  pain  reference 
april 2011 by ignatz
Montclair SocioBlog: Notice Anything Different?
Waiter turns into gorilla halfway through meal nobody notices etc
sociology  psychology  failure  science  perception 
april 2011 by ignatz
What we know, and don't know, about Japan's reactors
Panel of MIT nuclear engineers aims for clarity about the state of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
japan  nuclear  disaster  MIT  science  physics 
march 2011 by ignatz
Inscentinel
Inscentinel Ltd. is developing unique sensing instruments which utilise trained honeybees (Apis mellifera) to recognise and detect trace vapours.
bees  science  security  safety  madscience  biology  entomology 
october 2009 by ignatz
UC Irvine Feature: Chemical bonding
UC Irvine scientists hope to become the first ever to make real-time videos of single molecules in action - a feat that has proved elusive because size and time scales are so small.
science  uci  research  chemistry 
august 2009 by ignatz
Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames
The story behind HAARP. As usual it's more about incompetence and hilarity than anything else.
via:thepouncer  haarp  conspiracy  failure  ha  research  usaf  usa  military  science  porkbarrel  alaska 
august 2009 by ignatz
Botanical barcoding will allow scanner to identify plants - Telegraph
This means that in the future scientists will be able to take a supermarket-style hand-held scanner into the field which will identify different plants by their barcodes.
science  botany  dna  fingerprinting 
july 2009 by ignatz
How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations
crackpots, mostly in physics, with some observations on their characteristics
via:thurston  psychoceramics  science  physics  crackpots 
may 2009 by ignatz
How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel. « Southern Fried Science
This is not, as a rule, a terribly good beer (though, with a good brewmaster on board, it can be). This is a beer to pass the time.
science  beer  diy  brewing 
may 2009 by ignatz
Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with complete success.
bees  science  biology  environment  news  peakbee  disease 
april 2009 by ignatz
Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog - life - 23 April 2009 - New Scientist
A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light.
science  genetics  news  biology  madscience 
april 2009 by ignatz
Bacon: the Other White Heat
The bacon mania is an old joke, and prosciutto is not really bacon. But you can weld with prosciutto.
bacon  science  fire  madscience  via:positivejeff 
april 2009 by ignatz
Super-laser fully operational at last - Innovation- msnbc.com
"After more than a decade of work and $3.5 billion, engineers have completed the world's most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself."
lasers  science  government  usa  weapons  nuclearweapons  doom  madscience  wmd 
april 2009 by ignatz
Singularics » Singularics is out of the doghouse
A very strange defense of "Singularics" against Schneier's doghouse, by its CEO.
singularity  wtf  science  psychoceramics  physics  failure 
march 2009 by ignatz
What Happens To Fake Studies?
What, you think they go back and fix them? The problem of bad science staying in the record.
fraud  medicine  science  research 
march 2009 by ignatz
Fastest accelerated shot in nature | The Firearm Blog
“The fastest spores travelled more than 1 million times their own ‘body’ length in one second,” says Money. “A 1.8-metre human travelling at 1 million times his or her body length in one second would be travelling at a velocity of 1.8 million meters per second, which is more than 5000 times the speed of sound.”
yow  science  biology  fungi  projectiles 
march 2009 by ignatz
Bad Science » “Facebook causes cancer”
Professor Greenfield’s stated aim, however, is to improve the public’s understanding of science: and yet repeatedly she appears in the media making wild headline-grabbing claims, without evidence, all the while telling us repeatedly that she is a scientist.
failure  science  socialnetworking  internet  health  cranks  pseudoscience 
february 2009 by ignatz
MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism - Times Online
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
failure  fraud  medicine  science  pseudoscience  autism 
february 2009 by ignatz
Honeybees See the Difference Between Numbers—Literally | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Honeybees have the ability to distinguish and remember visual quantities up to four, according to a new study
science  biology  via:thepouncer  nature  bees 
january 2009 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Sex smell lures 'vampire' to doom
US researchers deployed a laboratory version of a male sea lamprey pheromone to trick ovulating females into swimming upstream into traps.
sex  news  science  environment  fish  lampreys 
january 2009 by ignatz
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
Collusion between pharm companies and influential doctors is way worse than I thought even.
commerce  villainy  medicine  science  psychiatry  pharmaceuticals  pharm 
january 2009 by ignatz
Quake-Catcher Network
distributed network of computers with motion sensors, detecting quakes
earthquakes  distributed  geology  science  measurement 
december 2008 by ignatz
Depression, Bipolar, Suicide, Drug Companies and Medications -- The Last Psychiatrist
The Last Psychiatrist is a weblog about our failure to be critical. Why do we practice the way we practice? How do we know what we know?
science  psychology  psychiatry  neuroscience  blog 
november 2008 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Expedition set for 'ghost peaks'
It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition - to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent. And then go mad, babbling about THOSE THINGS...
leng  lovecraft  science  madscience  doom  antarctica 
october 2008 by ignatz
Gordonzola.net
Notes, facts, blogs, and lots of other information from a skilled cheesemonger.
friends  cheese  gordonzola  reference  food  science  nutrition  cooking 
september 2008 by ignatz
HMP Research Station | Haughton-Mars Project
an international interdisciplinary field research project centered on the scientific study of the Haughton impact structure and surrounding terrain, Devon Island, High Arctic, viewed as a terrestrial analog for Mars
exploration  arctic  hmp  science  space 
august 2008 by ignatz
CompilerBitch's Journal
scientist on the Haughton-Mars project, simulating Mars and the Moon in the Arctic. Great photos.
arctic  space  exploration  science  photography  photos  hmp 
august 2008 by ignatz
YouTube - It's Called epMotion
area boy band promotes automated pipetting
video  youtube  science  advertising  lab  chemistry 
july 2008 by ignatz
Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says
"What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen. We're fucked.
science  environment  news  doom 
july 2008 by ignatz
The Disgruntled Chemist
UCI chem grad student. Great on beer.
blog  chemistry  science  blogs  politics  beer 
june 2008 by ignatz
28 Days Later...more stem cells! | MetaFilter
Scientists have discovered that "endometrial regenerative cells" (ERC's) -- in other words, human menstrual blood -- contains stem cells.
metafilter  science  stemcells  menstruation  health  yow 
april 2008 by ignatz
Greta Christina's Blog: The Galileo Fallacy, and the Gadfly Corollary
Nothing new, but a nice summation of why 90% of everyone needs to shut up.
psychology  intelligence  nerds  science  failure  stupid 
march 2008 by ignatz
Morbid Anatomy
history, anatomy, art, science, DEAD THINGS
anatomy  history  science  medicine  bizarre  yow  art 
march 2008 by ignatz
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