Barksdale was from the South, not the really Deep South, but far enough away that he had no experience with New England winters. ..
Barksdale was from the South, not the really Deep South, but far enough away that he had no experience with New England winters. ..
Barksdale was from the South, not the really Deep South, but far enough away that he had no experience with New England winters. ..
There is seldom an image more unusual than this one one …. So I am sharing it!
This is the first time I have observed an earthquake moving the surface of the Earth around in real time .… they claim it is the first time it has been captured on video.
I am remembering that Old Paw got a patent on the “Ear Thermometer” far too early for there to be any electronics small enough or affordable enough to make the product economically viable. The early prototype models that Barnes Engineering could turn out were quite clunky, very similar to the first cell phones, which were like "WW2 walky-talkies" from which they had descended.
Something completely different.
While browsing Google Earth, I discovered that several bloggers call themselves “Google Earth Explorers.”
Years ago I saw a giant version of this demonstration in the lobby of a physics laboratory at Cal Tech. The spheres were a foot in diameter! ….
This is the NYT article on Computer-Generated Human Faces that I mentioned the other day. Be sure and go into it far enough to get to the controls allowing you to change a face to express emotion. Scary!
When we were all living on Grey Farms road in Stamford, we had an early morning bird that drove us to distraction…
Decades ago, when we went to Australia, we were often told to listen to the songs of the native LyreBirds. However, Lyrebirds don’t sing their own songs at all. According to David Attenborough, all we heard were clever copies of the songs of all the other birds…
This video from the New York Times is a very good description of the short life of the Blue Ghost commercial spacecraft which successfully landed on the Moon and conducted a full lunar day’s worth of experiments there. It then signed off by switching itself into “Monument Mode…
Well this is something new. The news today is full of reports of the severe damage in Myanmar where a 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroyed many buildings including some brand-new construction projects…
Myanmar 7.7 magnitude earthquake as shown in a fascinating (terrifying?) time-lapse video…
After watching our baby eagles for days and days, the old question came up: “Why don't you ever see baby pigeons?"
A pod of dolphins playfully circled the SpaceX Dragon capsule (Freedom) as it floated in the Gulf of Mexico after the successful splashdown of the Crew-9 mission on March 18, 2025
Every mechanical engineer should know what the Antikythera Mechanism was. This video is hard core mechanical engineering…
Today, I found myself telling Mom more of what I remember of the stories Temple Bowling told our family when he visited us from his training base in Long Island. Those tales were told and retold at Westover Road dinner parties for years after the war. So here is another…
This video is probably more detailed than you want, however, from my search today it is the best presented answer so far as to why SpaceX’s Flight-8 Ship tumbled, exploded and become a massive fireworks display. Earlier, SpaceX's first stage booster had performed flawlessly and was left safely hanging there in the "chop sticks" on the launch tower, just as planned.
My purpose is to record this event as part of Barnes family history. I use the phrase “WW2 War Story” in the title to acknowledge that it is not corroborated by any contemporaneous photographs or even written down in the journal Dr. R. Bowling Barnes kept during his time in Germany just before the close of World War Two…
