Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the News category. Noteworthy entries are filed topmost.
Nice Little Explanation of the Credit Crisis
Maybe not 100% accurate, but very nicely animated, and easy to follow!
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Water Pistol, Super Soaker, What Comes Next?
Clearly the Alcohol Shot Gun!
It’s only single shot action, but I’m sure you can find a potent enough shot!
McG’s Vision for Terminator Salvation
I do like the look, even if I am still struggling to see the need of another Terminator movie.
Exclusive Images Reveal McG’s Terminator Salvation Vision
The New Target is Robocop
Why is this happening? Is there such a big market for remakes of movies? Are they all out of ideas?
Now We Know: Aronofsky’s Robocop Not Sequel
We’ve asked before to no avail, but finally director Darren Aronofsky has come out and admitted that his new Robocop movie will not be a sequel to the previous three movies, but a ground-up reboot to the mechanical cop franchise.
Sarah Palin Prank Call
Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel from the Montreal radio station CKOI – also known as the “Masked Avengers” – posed as French President Nicolas Sarkozy managed to get through to Palin.
To me it sounds like she has the bad habit of not completely listening to what her conversation partner is saying, and then saying whatever comes to her mind in the context of what she did actually hear.
LHC is Having Teething Issues
Apparently I missed some of the recent LHC news, it looks like it is going to be switched off for a while…
What happened to the Big Bang machine?
The fault that has shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be hugely disappointing for scientists and engineers following the successful “start-up” of the experiment.
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The failure on 19 September – described as a “massive” magnet quench – certainly seems dramatic: it caused the temperatures in about 100 of the LHC’s super-cooled magnets to soar by as much as 100C.
The fire brigade had to be called after a tonne of liquid helium leaked out into the LHC tunnel.
On the Pursuit of the Beginnings of the Solar System
Apparently the Europeans think it’s not enough to get some rubble out of a quarry. They now want to send a space craft to pick up some rubble from an asteroid.
Europe plans asteroid sample grab
European scientists and engineers are working on a potential new mission to bring back material from an asteroid.
The venture, known as Marco Polo, could launch in the next decade, and would be designed to learn more about how our Solar System evolved.
The plan is to select a small asteroid – less than 1km across – near Earth and send a spacecraft there to drill for dust and rubble for analysis.
Hitchhiker’s Guide in the News?
A new volume of the Hitchhiker’s Guide? First thought: Weeeee! Second thought: Wait a minute, Douglas Adams died, did he not? Definitely a dilemma: On the one hand I really like the series, and I would love to see another volume. On the other hand I do not think it can be the same without Douglas Adams.
“Hitchhiker’s Guide” series to ride again
Children’s author Eoin Colfer is to write a sixth novel in the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series, seven years after the death of its creator Douglas Adams, publishers Penguin said on Wednesday.
Apparently the Large Hadron Collider is Now Online
There is a neat little article on BBC’s website describing it for laymen.
The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the Large Hadron Collider will re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang in an attempt to answer fundamental questions of science and the universe itself.
Find out more about the LHC with this BBC News guide, starting at the top of the page with an introduction from Science Correspondent David Shukman. You can then explore key elements of the experiment using the links above.
Update: The first beams went through the full loop. ‘Big Bang’ experiment starts well
They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
