Interesting News: Richard Branson’s Submarine
Richard Branson Launches High-Tech ‘Flying’ Submarine: Virgin mogul Richard Branson recently unveiled a new ocean plaything for the intrepid super rich: A deep-sea submarine. “Necker Nymph,” an “underwater plane” that can dive up to 40 meters below the surface, is the latest addition to to Branson’s luxury collection which includes a private island, a superyacht [...]
Interesting News: DARPA & Biofuel from Algae
DARPA Says Biofuel From Algae Could Cost Only $1 Per Gallon: DARPA will soon be producing jet fuel made from algae at a price comparable to that of petroleum-based fuel. DARPA could be months, not years, from producing an algal biofuel that is price-competitive with fossil fuels. According to Barbara McQuiston, special assistant to energy [...]
Computer Engineer Barbie
This is some encouraging news I suppose. Instead of being a blonde bimbo such as when I was growing up, now Barbie has a Ph.D and is a computer engineer. Great improvement! http://gizmodo.com/5470587/computer-engineer-barbie-has-a-phd-in-fun-and-breaking-down-stereotypes
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Updated the Photography section with the albums subsections. The links should all work as well.
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Tea up!
I’ve started drinking a lot of tea lately. I guess having to wake up at 5am for the majority of the week has made me realize I need some sort of boost to get me through the day. I use to drink espresso coffee stuff, but then all that caffeine did some number on me [...]
Math-e-ma-tics
Steven Strogatz is a featured columnist/blogger on the New York Times. He’ll be writing about math, the concepts, understanding it, etc. It’ll be interesting to see what he says. The link is here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/from-fish-to-infinity/#more-36601 My parents always told me math is a language. If that was true, I always needed an interpreter. Math is a [...]
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