Antinuclear Power Activist Has An Epiphany

Symphony of Science - "We Are All Connected"

Sent to me by my friend Mike Benedetto of Buffalo, NY.

Nuclear Alchemist, Albert Ghiorso 1915-2010 R.I.P

Dr. Ghiorso was a legend that I started reading about in my earliest days as a chemistry student at HSU. Being responsible for the discovery of 12 elements is pretty impressive. A combination of inquisitive mind, right place, and right time.

Bizarro Comic - January 5, 2011

Apple's A5 Chip for the Upcoming iPad2 and iPhone 5

Expect to start seeing some improvements in graphical power in the coming months on the iPad 2 and iPhone 5. Every electronic device I have is rapidly becoming 'so yesterday.'

NASA's Bobby Braun Talks About Mars

The Importance of Cheap, Reliable Power for Economic Development

Here is Rod Adams' latest thoughts on energy and economics.

Carnegie Mellon Open Source Learning

The challenge for CMU is to recreate the intensive classroom experience for a solitary student studying on the Internet. Click here to read about how conversational French II is being taught.

10 Things You May Not Know About Oil

This link is not all that new but just in case you missed it, click here.

Current Reading List

Here's what I've got in the reading rotation currently: 1) At Home - Bill Bryson; 2) The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us - Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons; 3) Me and Lee - Judyth Vary Baker; and 4) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Another Solar Cell Breakthrough

Caltech has announced another breakthrough in solar cell development. This time it is about flexible cells the enhances the absorption of sunlight using only a fraction of the expensive semiconductor materials required by conventional solar cells.

Nondestrutive Radiocarbon Dating

Marvin Rowe of Texas A&M has developed a major improvement in radiocarbon dating. Using a nondestructive methodology, samples being tested are no longer destroyed. This is a very cool breakthrough.

Dr. Rowe is an acquaintance of mine and studied under the same professor in graduate school as I did (Prof. Paul K. Kuroda). He was instrumental in some of the cosmochemistry research on meteorites using the Univ. of Arkansas' Reynolds Rare Gas Mass Spectrometer. In fact, after Prof. Kuroda's retirement, Dr. Rowe inherited the device and took it back to Texas A&M's Dept. of Chemistry.

Dr. Rowe is also the graduate professor of Dr. J. Marvin Herndon of San Diego, CA, who has proposed a theory that the earth's core is being kept molten by a natural breeder uranium reactor.