Sunday, February 17, 2013

Sixty Symbols

Bumped into a youtube publisher, sixty symbols, that seems to be astronomy and physics, from University of Nottingham.  The two I watched were about (a) the largest so far discovered galaxy, and (b) more intriguing, a structure that seems to be the largest in the universe.  A string of quasars 4 billion light year long.  What makes it especially interesting is that this would be too big for a homogeneous universe.

(Bringing the blog back to life to record web sites and other things worth remembering -- science, science fiction, computer science, etc.)

Monday, March 1, 2010

MikroKopter

Wonderful videos and website (and a second) about a model helicopter that has six propellers, incredible stability. More video here.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Amazing Graphic

Found this at User Friendly. The page draws an incredible image that to me feels like a village growing into a town into a city. The parent site was created 2004 by Jared Tarbell and I don't know if it changes. Take that back: there are many images of different dates and they are just fabulous.

Underground Temple in Italy

Some links to a fascinating underground temple in Italy carved out of the rock. It's not ancient but has been created by in the last thirty years
News article here and the groups web page here.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Graham Hurley

Read his British police procedural, blood and honey, and he is definitely worth following.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

map my walk

Website for recording walks: mapmywalk.com Found it looking for the coast-to-coast walk in Auckland, NZ