Category: General Science
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Aurora Watch – for Edmonton
If you live in the Edmonton area, this is a cool resource if you like to watch the dancing lights – esp if you want to be able to get some pictures of them.
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Colors determined by language
Well add this to the raft of “things” that get filtered through language – color seems to have some connection to language processing. Just like the Inuit and their words for snow, we all seem to have bias for color. I remember hearing something similar to this a while ago in reference to people who…
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Planet X may be back
This time it may be 30-70% of Earth’s mass according to Japanese researchers. If it exists, it will certainly make things interesting in local astronomy again… but after what happened to poor Pluto, I wonder what fate might fall this rock.
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This ubergadget is “built in”
Everyone has heard the joke about a cell phone small enough to be implanted into your hand with the thumb as the speaker and the pinky as the mic… well does anyone ever talk about how you would dial that? Well, this doesn’t address that perse, but it is a bionic phone.
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Worldwide Telescope
When this shows up, it it supposed to be better than Google Sky.