Category Archives: For Science?
When The Arctic Ice roads fail, send in the Blimps.
Discovery Air and HAV have signed a tentative deal that both companies hope to finalize in 2012, followed by the first delivery of airships in 2014. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/08/26/nwt-discovery-airship.html A British manufacturer hopes to build a fleet of airships for Yellowknife’s Discovery … Continue reading
Heston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal Heston looks like a cross between a rugby player and Harry Potter. He’s quite interested in the science of food, and how you can improve cooking using science.
DWFTTW
Can you sail a land yacht down wind faster than the wind? http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_fasterthanwind/ Weirdly, the answer seems to be yes, but you use a propeller instead of a sail, and it generates ridiculous amounts of torque.
“Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant
http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html An account of a bizarre force field generated by a spool of tape being unspooled, cut and respooled at a 3M plant. From a post on Reddit.