I’m fascinated how some people still nowadays build a vehicle out of wood, strap a small engine onto it and dash through skies at 200 km/h speeds. Very few tools are needed for wood working, although a lot of time has to be spent. There are some modern materials, like glues (usually epoxies) used in [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Simple Materials
Posted in Motivation, Science, Transportation, airplane, tagged arboform, biomaterials, nanomaterials, plywood, super paper, wood on Monday 2009.01.19 | 1 Comment »
Local Cooling
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Global, Journalism, idiocracy on Saturday 2009.01.17 | Leave a Comment »
This
leads to this.
…And Dishonesty Is Legal and Profitable
Posted in Demotivation, idiocracy on Friday 2009.01.16 | Leave a Comment »
As Mark Chu-Carroll explains the “financial crisis”. If there’s no mechanism for enforcing responsibility, it will likely not be taken. The investor has no way of knowing who’s speaking the truth when banks say their bonds have been insured.
The Truth Is Losing
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, idiocracy, tagged CNN, Evolution, global warming, Heartland Institute, Texas Education Board on Thursday 2009.01.15 | 1 Comment »
I don’t see any way out of this slide into idiocracy anymore. Just a few examples.
CNN
Texas Education Board
What happens in the USA usually is copied around the world quite soon. Industry funded think tanks and religious fundamentalists have become experts and the media their uncritical dissemination path to the public. Science and scientists have lost. [...]
Something Cool Underwater – and in the Air Too
Posted in Homebuilt, Motivation, tagged bogus batoid, human powered, submarine on Friday 2009.01.09 | Leave a Comment »
Human powered submarines:
Rather conventional seeming solutions, but nice anyway.
This is a more out there attempt. A flapping submarine, like a ray. It doesn’t seem to go very much anywhere when one compares to the propeller ones:
Festo has built an Air Ray, a remote controlled helium balloon with [...]
Bad Science
Posted in Demotivation, idiocracy, tagged Bad Science, Goldcare, Media, Science Reporting on Thursday 2009.01.08 | Leave a Comment »
A British doctor examines in his blog what the press writes about science.
It happens over here too, with the press refusing to do corrections on crass mistakes. It is worsened by the fact that Finland only really has one major newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.
The media is a crucial tool to ensure a working democracy. It is [...]
What James Hansen Said In 1988
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Science, tagged 1988, Crichton, Hansen, Michaels on Monday 2009.01.05 | Leave a Comment »
And what misinterpretations have been done since. The public opinion is shaped by liars.
