Category Archive: Science

• UK Inventor makes 8000 mpg car - 05/14/2006
  

  Back in the day when we had to brave Los Angeles' 405 freeway on the way to -gasp!- an office job, we'd always wanted a Harrier — the aircraft flown by our Guvernator in the movie True Lies. Certainly stylish, if pricey, but where would one park it?
  Anyway. It seems that UK inventor […]

• Climate Change and Global Warming - 02/16/2006
  

  Here, in a piece entitled Climate change: On the edge, is a clear explanation about some of the effects of global warming from NASA scientist Jim Hansen. It's not gorgeous, but it's real — and points the way at what can be done.

• Giant Squid: a myth no more - 09/28/2005
  

  Remember the old stories of wooden boat sailors returning to land with tales of giant sea monsters? Always sounded ridiculous, superstitious, a bit daft, you know?
  But there's actual proof that giant squid exist. The BBC News is among those covering the news of the filming of Architeuthis by T Kubodera and K Mori of Japan: […]

• Peters Projection - 06/22/2005
  

  Wha … forgive us for having learned about the Peters Projection map of Earth from The West Wing, but as it turns out, it's real. Apparently the problem with depicting Earth on a flat surface is that, well, it's just not flat, and so you get distortions, particularly in size. The problem is that […]

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