Saturday Morning Science – Page 2

Saturday Morning Science 004

February 26, 2011March 5, 2011 Pete Chapman ADHD, Saturday Morning Science, Science0 comment

The problem is a simple one, despite being the storehouse for the knowledge of an entire planet sometimes the Internet can be a bore. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter present us with a world of ideas, tiny ideas, iterations of personal data, statements, hopes, curses and bleats amounting to a wall of cozy noise; full of sound and fury. Here are five sites on the web, five oasis in the sometime wasteland, five challenging places that reward the time spent with them. Feynman’s Robb Lectures– Anyone with an internet connection can…

Computing Science

Saturday Morning Science 003

February 19, 2011March 5, 2011 Pete Chapman Casimir Effect, graphene, Saturday Morning Science1 Comment

Graphene Novelties– This week’s edition started off with a simple article from Science Daily: Graphene and ‘Spintronics’ Combo Looks Promising. A group of researchers from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Science and Technology of China presented their work on using graphene as a platform for creating “spintronic” devices. In their scheme, the electromagnetic spin of particles, their “up” or “down” orientation, could be used to encode the ones and zeroes of binary data at incredibly high density (seeing as graphene is one atom thick) and…

Science

Saturday Morning Science 001

February 5, 2011February 10, 2011 Pete Chapman Cassini, Heinlein, manned space flight, NASA, Obama, Saturday Morning Science, solar sail, space shuttle4 Comments

Welcome to the first installment of a new rgbFilter feature: Saturday Morning Science. Its title comes from a piece of short hand that our editor, Doug Groves would use to describe some of our previous science articles: as in, “This one is a kind of read-it-over-Saturday-morning-coffee kind of piece.” The idea of a weekly science review was our response to the general “Twitterization” of science reporting that a regular website/blog can easily fall into. How many times can a new Earth be discovered, a silly thing be done to some…