Miles is back from [TAM|The Amazing Meeting], Al covers some robot and human enhancing machinery, Lunokhod travels on the Moon, bad science and medicine on the Huffington post, and Lyle runs the board.
This is Rex. Not the man, he’s called Hayden
Lunokhod 2 (
USB Chicken Burger 4-Port Hub allows you to connect 4 different USB devices. It’s another little fancy stuff on your desk.
Wind turbines? Dontcha hate them! Horrible things going round-and-round. Roundandroundandroundandround. They make a lot of noise, and bits seem to keep on falling off them. Dangerous.
Then there
“Will electric vehicles bring down the U.S. power grid?
The answer, equally bluntly, is: No. They won’t.”
“An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night.”
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble uses gorgeous imagery of hundreds of thousands of galaxies drawn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope archive. To understand how these galaxies, and our own, formed we need your help to classify them according to their shapes
The home page for Rex Bionics
“Some people relax by doing crossword puzzles, watching movies or reading a good book. In his down time, often while flying somewhere, Energy Secretary Steven Chu relaxes by [tackling a scientific conundrum and stretching the limits of technology|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38130342/ns/technology_and_science-science/].”
Meanwhile, the Huffington Post, in addition to its extensive and often excellent political commentary, gives a [soapbox to pseudoscientific medical treatments|http://www.scienceduck.com/2010/07/08/the-huffington-post-has-a-soft-spot-for-pseudoscience/]. It’s a shame more people don’t understand the principles behind the double [blind|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment] experiment.
! Homeopathy
And we had a small debate about Homeopathy from a Huffington Post.
Listener Ed Sent in an Email:
“I was reaching for the radio to turn it off during the homeopathy call. It
is painful to listen to this nonsense. But before I could turn it off you
guys spoke up and clearly said what you said. Thanks for politely and
respectfully not humoring that stuff.”
