Posts Tagged ‘science’
large hadron collider update
Here’s a recent video update/primer on the repairs underway at CERN. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva.
NASA’s TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Gustav on August 27, 2008 as it attacked Haiti. At this time the storm was a category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 65 knots (75 mph) and a pressure reading of 992 millibars. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM’s Visible and Infrared Scanner(VIRS) and the GOES spacecraft. The rain structure is taken by TRMM’s Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI) and TRMM’s Precitation Radar(PR) instruments. TRMM looks underneath of the storm’s clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour.
Made by the awesome nerds at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio (I wish I was one of them).
NPR might think they can corner the market on science with their paltry, particle-deficient Science Friday’s, so it’s time to heat up the particle-accelerator and collide their sham…with a new one! We’re taking it to the next level: the very next day. Introducing Science Saturdays. Get your subatomic particles off on that, NPR! I’m also challenging Stephen Colbert to a science fair-off. We’ll see if he can send a hydrogen rocket into space or if he’ll just end up chasing Richard Branson between the Moon and New York City in his new Virgin Galactic Spaceship.
I’ve dug out a classic and I’m dedicating this episode of Science Saturdays to one of my favorite radio channels (when it’s not the pledge drive at least). Take a peek at Science Projects Handbook for some scientific inspiration. It’s “the actual science experiments of 36 young scientists on the threshold of fascinating careers.”
This is not a reprint people, this is the official, O.G. publication (see back cover). And if you read this book as a child, probably sometime between 1960 & 1970, and you are now a scientist, we are interested in hearing from you.
