a series of tubes
[Cross-posted from our new home at Scientific American.] Imagine, if you will, a secret community dwelling beneath the streets of New York City, its inhabitants …
Aerodynamics
ticket to ride
One of my new favorite GeekGrrl blogs is The Mary Sue — a tantalizing mix of popular culture, technology, fashion, offbeat humor and weird science. …
serpentine style
Indiana Jones might be a swashbuckling, thrill-seeking archaeologist who once loftily claimed "I'm a scientist. Nothing shocks me." But there's one thing famously guaranteed to …
fly away home
Within my Garden, rides a BirdUpon a single Wheel —Whose spokes a dizzy Music makeAs 'twere a travelling Mill — He never stops, but slackensAbove …
missed me by a millimeter
Co-blogger Lee might not have time to blog much these days — hey, she's swamped doing double teaching duty, with uber-long commutes — but she …
hollywood, red wine and carburetors
OK, Jennifer shamed me into finishing this with her excellent blog on the gas station nozzles and how they turn off automatically. Finally. I don't …
stormy weather
Living in sunny Southern California, where it's 75, sunny and mild much of the time, kind of makes you forget that other regions experience this …
when satellites collide, it’s really a drag
The NASCAR season has started, which means I got to go down to Daytona a couple weeks ago. Daytona is a 2.5 mile track and …
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flights of fancy
A couple of weeks ago — May 14, to be exact — a Swiss man named Yves Rossy (a.k.a., "Fusion Man") made headlines (and secured …