Posted in Research Synopses on Nov 21st, 2005
[Cliamte Change, Global Warming, Hydrologic Cycle, Peer Review, Research Synopsis]This week’s Published Research Synopsis focuses on the impact global warming will have on the availability of water across the globe. This paper is part Review Paper, part original research. This means, essentially, that the authors have published important new results by synthesizing the […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 21st, 2005
[Asteroid, Astronomy, Hayabusa, Itokawa, Rubble Pile]Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day gives us the great picture to the left of Asteroid Itokawa taken by the currently status-unknown Japanese probe Hayabusa. This picture is simply astounding because it is completely unlike any picture of an asteroid, moon, or planet we’ve seen so far. It […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 21st, 2005
[Manned, Mars, Phobos, Space, Space Exploration]This week’s The Space Review features some truly excellent thinking about space. In addition to a great piece explaining how the Vision for Space Exploration’s return to the Moon is much more than just another Apollo, Jeff Foust discusses the suggestion that a manned mission to Phobos could be a […]
Posted in Book Reviews, Opinion on Nov 18th, 2005
[Book Review, Engineering, Failure, Henry Petroski, Living in Space, Space]Engineering is not normally a field that produces fine writers, as I’m sure anyone who’s had to slog through engineering reports can attest. Henry Petroski, however, is a fine exception. He’s been writing great books since the eighties, and has been a regular columnist […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 17th, 2005
[Ice Pick, Lobotomy, NPR, Transorbital]Last night on All Things Considered, I stood transfixed for almost 25 minutes listening to the story of a procedure: the transorbital, or “ice-pick” lobotomy. It was used between 1946 and 1967 on over 2,500 victims-cum-patients to treat certain mental illnesses, and was invented by a man named Walter Freeman. […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Nov 16th, 2005
[Jupiter, Peer Review, Research Synopsis, Science]Welcome to the first of my Published Research Synponses! As I mentioned in the previous entry, this will become somewhat of a regular feature on Anthonares.net. As this is a first attempt, I will be refining these as I go along, but I want to point out the […]
Posted in Research Synopses, Informative Articles on Nov 15th, 2005
[Peer Review, Popular Science, Science]Science advances as a whole because of communication. Scientists communicate their findings to each other in both written form and in presentations at conferences. At a deeper level, colleagues discuss their research in a multitude of informal ways, of course. But, the formal process of peer-reviewed publication is […]
Posted in Announcements on Nov 14th, 2005
[No Tags]In a closed system, all growth must eventually cease; all change gradually diminishes into constancy. Right now, humanity is exponentially accelerating its pace towards the boundaries of its own (currently) closed system. We must scale the walls of the closed systems that have limited us for so long. With no […]
Posted in Opinion on Nov 10th, 2005
[Futurism, Gravitational Tug, Radical Evolution]I was discussing the physics of the gravitational tug mentioned in my previous entry with my mom earlier this evening and it occurred to me that the incredible simplicity and guaranteed success of the tug could make it a tool for the terrorists of the next century that would seek to […]
Posted in In The News on Nov 10th, 2005
[Asteroid, Gravity, Space]A couple of researchers thought up a very cool idea (see this site for image credits): build a good-sized spaceship (20 tons) with a somewhat advanced propulsion system (Nuclear Electric Propulsion: using nuclear power to generate electricity used to ionize propellant and expel it at very high speeds. This form of propulsion […]
