At the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2006 in San Francisco [1] in August there was a track on scientific application development and the use of...
Compilation of the top 100 images taken by Hubble: <http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/> What's your favourite? Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast...
... Ooof. What kind of question is that? :))) Chocolate or steak or melon? I'm not much on the ones called "artist's impression", but the pictures are ...
See: <http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/11/a_dolphinwith_hindlimbs.php> It's like they used to have legs ;-P Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox -...
... Oooh, do you think so? :))) That is very cool. I was afraid at first they'd killed the dolphin - so often animals for scientific examination are killed....
Is currently out of reach ... How fun would it be to run one of these projects? http://www.space.com/news/061110_mgs_missing.html Mike Sims [Non-text portions...
... Oh, man! I forwarded your URL to a friend who used to work for NASA. I eagerly await her reply! *I* would not likely enjoy such a situation at all. ...
... MGS is way past the planned mission time. So if it's lost now it'll be sad but not a disaster. BTW have people seen the huge storm photographed on Saturn? ...
... Talking of Mars missions way past their projected mission time... You can watch a lecture given recently by Steve Squires who is the current mission lead...
The TEDtalk videos continue to be published. The Michael Shermer one is good. AS is the Peter Donnelly one. See: <http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/index.cfm> Ian --...
I've got new job in the company I work for. See details at URL below. Ties in with my interest in science communication as it'll involve that as a subset of...
Is there another entrant about to hit the reference searching market? A new application called Papers is in private beta (I'm not on the beta) that looks like...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/scientists-decode-ancient-astral- computer/2006/11/30/1164777721260.html> "After a century of study, the 2100-year-old...
... There is a 5 page news article about this, and the paper itself, in this weeks Nature. Access to these is free. Also this weeks Nature Podcast covers this....
... Hubble has been a most wonderful gift for the imagination! I have downloaded a number of the wonderful pictures and I like using them on my desktop. ...
Happy Christmas and New year to everyone. I plan a very relaxed time: 1) Scanning and reading selected articles in a big pile of Nature and New Scientists. 2)...
Seconding the Happy Christmas wishes - My online "card": http://buncombe.main.nc.us/~mbbweb/miscpics/MBCard.jpg Spring is on the way! :) Regards, MB...
... Indeed -- but it is only three days into Winter -- in the northern hemisphere. ];-) Thank you, and may I offer my own in return, and to all our friends ...
We (as a family) watch the extended versions of LOTR about once every three months. I was on a site not too long ago which compared the visual difference...