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Category Archives: Sci-Tech

WILL THE REAL REALITY PLEASE STAND OUT

A HEADLINE in The New York Times, February 16, 2014, read “Is the Universe a Simulation?” (See http://goo.gl/E9FZgw.) This provocative question aroused my interest all the more because it was … Continue reading →

February 24, 2014 · Leave a comment

MECHA-MAN, DOKTOR DARKNESS—AND YOU!

HERE’S YOUR chance to choose between Good and Evil—and to promote science along the way. Scientists at Britain’s University of Central Lancashire and a pair of professional comic book artists … Continue reading →

February 21, 2014 · Leave a comment

BIG CATS, DOGS—AND A SEA OTTER?

BEING AT the top of the food web carries real ecological responsibilities. And I’m not talking about you or me. I’m talking about certain members of the order Carnivra, the … Continue reading →

February 17, 2014 · 2 Comments

SOLID-STATE BATTERY UPDATE

TOYOTA HAS recently released data on its battery research, both for solid-state batteries expected during a 2020s’ timeframe as well as a next-generation lithium-air concept perhaps a decade beyond that. … Continue reading →

February 6, 2014 · Leave a comment

EARL MADMAN MUNTZ

January 31, 2014 · 1 Comment

WE ARE WEIRD

A PROVOCATIVE recent book offers the view that we have a lot to learn from primitive societies—from what we might call uncivilized sorts. What with savage rites and all, I’m … Continue reading →

January 22, 2014 · Leave a comment

FLAME EATER ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE

MY 21ST-CENTURY Flame Eater atmospheric engine is a technical delight that traces its origin back 300 years to the dawn of mechanical power. The very earliest of engines were of … Continue reading →

January 13, 2014 · 3 Comments

ENZYME HELPS HYDROGEN STORAGE

HYDROGEN IS the energy carrier of the future. What’s more, with production fuel-cell cars only a year away, H2 transport and storage are becoming important right now. A recent article … Continue reading →

January 9, 2014 · 2 Comments

NICOLAS BOURBAKI—PHANTOM MATH GUY

WE KNOW the names Archimedes, Euclid, Newton, Einstein and a few others as important personages in science. But some of the most fundamental science of the 20th Century is attributed … Continue reading →

November 29, 2013 · 7 Comments

ONE NINER RIGHT

DID THE earth move for you too? On July 24, 2014, my home field, John Wayne Santa Ana Airport, SNA, will change its busiest runway from One Niner Right to … Continue reading →

November 21, 2013 · Leave a comment