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While vacuum tubes are still used in specialty situations like guitar amps and enthusiast audio equipment, finding older models is becoming quite difficult as the supply dries up. Of course, if you’re awesome enough, you can simply make your own (video after the cut.)
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 23, 2010
In one of the first tests of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, scientists pointed a telescope at the sun during a solar eclipse. The goal was to measure how much the sun’s gravity deflected the light from stars.
In a manner similar to that experiment, scientists are using massive gravitational bodies in space and their effect on light as an experimental tool, with a side effect of producing beautiful images of the process.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 22, 2010
While I’ve seen the Mario soundtrack covered in numerous ways, this is the first time I’ve seen it performed in real time with the game, including all of the sound effects.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 18, 2010
Tea. Earl Grey, hot.
Well, not quite. But 3D printing with plastic is getting to the level where you can buy and assemble a printer for under a grand, and it’ll sit cutely on your desk.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 10, 2010
Split over four hundred orbits, with one million seconds of total exposure time, the Hubble Space Telescope took pictures of a tiny, tiny piece of our sky. The result? The Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 09, 2010
For a bit of science today, I’d like to mention non-Newtonian fluids. Normally when you stir a fluid, it doesn’t change its viscosity based on how fast you stir it. Custard stays viscous (or thick,) and water stays relatively easy to stir. This is because they’re Newtonian fluids, which means they move as Isaac Newton’s equation predicted.
More interesting fluids, though, act in strange ways.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 08, 2010
In a brief Friday post about the nature of science, I would like to defer to the late Richard Feynman.
Posted by carneywilson on Jun. 04, 2010
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