Category: science and tech
rDay Eight-Hundred-Thirty-Five
Another scorcher. Forecast was for 99 F., didn’t get an actual reading.
The big news of the day was old friend & ex-colleague Zach (and Nikon shooter, along with his wife!) took a break from working his new hosting/security consulting/IT management company to come over and meet Charlie. Actually, what he did was to help fix my suddenly broken computer network. And he showed me pics of his two-month-old daughter.
The History of Maps
Smithsonian.com considers the history of maps, from the physical to GPS in our devices. Read on.
Bill Gates’ Science Reading List
His favorite science reads, right here.
Dream On
Eqbal Dauqan Does Science
Driving Across Antarctica (in a Hyundai)
In this Road and Track piece, we see how the great-grandson of Ernest Shackleton becomes the first person to drive across the South Pole.
Neil’s Office
While reading about the subject of the previous post, I stumbled across this brief video. If you are as much a fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson as I am, or maybe not, you might like seeing this visit to his office.
Our Bruised Universe
They Hold Grudges, I’m Told
Well, here is an interesting piece.
Somewhat akin to practicing scales on the piano, whenever I am walking about with Nikon in hand, I try to quickly follow and focus on any flying object that crosses overhead, just to see if I can do it. I don’t know the difference between crows and ravens (and googling hasn’t really helped me clear up the distinction), but whatever we have here, we have a bunch of them. Like these from the other day.
