Dust Storms
Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features a dust storm streaming off the north polar cap of Mars. Here’s a hi-res version which includes an image of a similar storm blowing off the Sahara Desert into the Atlantic Ocean.
Ig Noble Prizes
Speaking of Nobel Prizes, the Annals of Improbable Research has posted the winners of this year’s Ig Noble Prizes. I especially like the Dutch guys who levitated a frog.
Hitting the Wall
Hitting the scientfic age wall is an interesting story about how most mathematicians and physicists make their greatest discoveries at a very young age. Oh well, I guess my chances of receiving that Nobel prize are getting slimmer every day…
20 Ways the World Could End
discover.com has an interesting list of 20 ways the world could end. As a kid, I remember losing sleep after reading an astronomy book that described how the sun would eventually destroy the earth (in ONLY a few billion years)…
Freeze ‘Em Dano
The mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina has suggested that inmates on death row should be cryogenically frozen rather than executed via the traditional methods. That way, if later evidence exonerated them, then they could be (at least potentially) unfrozen in the future.
WhatTheFont
WhatTheFont allows you to upload a scanned image of a font, and attempts to identify it by matching it against their database of typefaces. It successfully identified the two samples I uploaded.
80% Geek!
80% Geek! – somehow I thought I would have scored higher…
NEAR Landing
Landing of the NEAR probe on the asteroid Eros is scheduled for February 2001. Check out the image of the day archive over at the NEAR poject web site.
Aurora Monitor Project
Mark Haun’s Aurora Monitor Project uses an optical aurora detector to provide automatic notification of auroral activity from sites in Champaign, IL and Walla Walla, WA.
SmellyPoop.com
Hey, it’s never too early to start your Christmas shopping – SmellyPoop.com.
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