Posted in Announcements on Jan 31st, 2006
[Month in Review]January was another great month here at Anthonares.net. Space science and energy seemed to be the big topics this month, with a little bit of space policy and exploration thrown in as well. Also, I am a new permanent contributor over at DamnInteresting.com and I will be linking over to articles […]
Posted in Announcements on Jan 31st, 2006
[Artificial Islands, Damn Interesting, Engineering, Futurism]Whenever applicable I will post brief summaries and links to my writings on DamnInteresting.com. Today’s article Your Own (Man-Made) Private Island is about artificial islands, how they are created, and their surprisingly long history in cultures across the globe. Enjoy!
Posted in Research Synopses on Jan 31st, 2006
[Alternative Fuels, Biodiesel, Bioethanol, E85, Energy, Ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Research Synopsis]Here at Anthonares.net I will be expanding my discussion of energy issues as they become politically and economically more prominent. This week’s Published Research Synopsis examines a review paper in the journal Science that lays out the path we will need to take to […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Jan 28th, 2006
[Hostages, Iraq, Military, War]News broke yesterday that U.S. military documents revealed that on at least two occasions, the wives of suspected Iraqi insurgents had been taken to use as “leverage” to garner the surrender of the suspects.
The AP reported was dated at approximately 3:00 PM yesterday afternoon, but where are the stories this […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Jan 27th, 2006
[Mars, Moon, NASA, NASA Watch, Space, Space Advocacy, Space Exploration]I acknowledge that I am nowhere near the expert on NASA matters, but as a scientist and space advocate I feel some right to talk even from a position of some ignorance. Michael Griffin is now well into his first year as NASA administrator, and […]
Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Jan 26th, 2006
[Energy, Nuclear Power, Pebble Bed, Proliferation, Renewable, Reprocessing, Wind Energy]Today the Washington Post published an article detailing the Administration’s plans to reprocess and distribute spent nuclear fuel from abroad. Also part of the mix would be legislation intended to encourage the development of new nuclear power plants. The time for discussion of nuclear […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Jan 25th, 2006
[Astronomy, ESA, Exoplanet, Gravitational Lensing, Microlensing, OGLE 2005 BLG 390Lb, Research Synopsis, Science]In a press conference this morning, astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with a likely mass of 5.5 times that of the Earth orbiting a red dwarf star some 21,500 light years away. This is not the lowest mass exoplanet discovered […]
Posted in Announcements on Jan 25th, 2006
[Damn Interesting, Futurism, Long Now]I’ve recently been offered a chance to be a regular contributor on the group blog DamnInteresting.com, and today my first piece appears, entitled New Year’s Eve 11999. It’s about the Clock of the Long Now, which some of my “long-time” readers may remember I blogged about last October.
I’ll be writing […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Jan 24th, 2006
[Accident, Design, Safety, Traffic, Vehicle]This month’s edition of Physics Today has an article by Marc Ross, Deena Patel, and Tom Wenzel that throws a little scientific light on vehicle accident safety. In 2004, 42,636 people were killed in traffic accidents in the U.S. This makes traffic accidents the number one non-medical cause of […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Jan 24th, 2006
[Asteroid, Dust Shower, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Research Synopsis, Veritas Family]I’ve selected this weeks article because it reaches an interesting conclusion through some fine logical reasoning. The authors describe the detection of two ancient dust showers (periods of relatively large dust fluxes into the atmosphere) and then convincingly argue that the more recent of the […]
