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there are lots of pretty colors in science.
there are. I think my one school science qualification came from my love of drawing biological diagrams. 34 years later I bet I can still draw an accurate cross section of the eye and spirogyra.
I've got my pars plana on you.
Minus the Latin?I'm shallow. I didn't go that deep. this was as far as we got but often minus the latin
Astronomy Picture of the Day is one of my favorite websites. They featured Kepler 11 a couple of days ago.
Water is our most important resource and with the USA's aging water systems, we are losing up to 25% of it to leaks and breaks and polution.
They have trouble finding, digging up, and replacing the many pipes that are breaking. But, there is a new baggie-like liner that they put into the pipe at an opening, drag it to the next opening, blow some steam into it, and it hardens into a lasting liner without doing any digging, or without even knowing exactly where the break is. This is in use NOW. Amazing technology
The Information
How the Internet gets inside us.
by Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker
When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The idea that a wizard in training might have, instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanche of news stories, scholarly articles, books, and images (including images she shouldn’t be looking at) was a Quidditch broom too far. Now, having been stuck with the library shtick, she has to go on working the stacks in the Harry Potter movies, while the kids who have since come of age nudge their parents. “Why is she doing that?” they whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1DPsEE2HL