This looks like a scene from a mystery movie or the library at Hogwarts…
A Barnes Earth Sensor was spotted by an eagle-eyed Rory and George on their recent school trip to the Air & Space Museum in DC…
Our land was easy pickings for rocks, and my new (at the time) Vermont wheelbarrow let me retrieve more of them from the nearby woods.
This enormous “machine” is under construction today in France under a multi-decade consortium of nations (including the USA) to develop a totally clean, totally safe source of electrical power to save the planet from global warming….
This delightful presentation of the movement of ships around the world is well worth studying.
Here is a tool that allows anyone to see what the eclipse will look like from where ever they happen to be next Monday afternoon….
The way the geometry works out involves the Earth, Sun, and Moon, the Full Moon can pass through the partial shadow of the Earth on occasion.
As one of the older members of the group, who is learning first hand about the many joints in the human body, I found this animation fascinating.
It was a wonderful treat to learn the story of the evolution of the big satellite constellation that I lived through ... seen from the other side.
ESA has found a subtle pair of frames of imagery from the Rosetta cameras that captured a moment just before Philae touched down and one just after it bounced back up…
This is the sort of thing I love. Not only do we have a machine on Mars making tire tracks across the landscape, but we have another in orbit taking pictures of those tracks.
This short video displays astonishing artistry with brightly body-painted models who have contorted themselves into various animal shapes.
Leo, I promised you that I would send the attached image from Google Earth that Rory and I found while doing a virtual tour of the coast of Maine.
I am always delighted to see an excellent graphic depiction of a complicated dataset.
Motorola, the big leader in the early days of mobile phones (think: brick with a ringer) had a big production facility in Phoenix.
This little video about Pendulum Waves could be the heart of an entire physics lecture ....simple, elegant, beautiful.
I find it CBS News video very compelling because it so clearly illustrates the nature of a tsunami.
