Sunday, August 23, 2009

Belated Links from last week

Popular Science

Mysterious Object Rips Through One of Saturn's Rings

Nine Overhyped and Misleading Health Headlines Debunked

The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World

Microbial Fuel Cell Cleans Wastewater, Desalinates Seawater, and Generates Power

Radio Telescopes Turn The Moon Into World's Largest Neutrino Detector

How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing

Carve Steel with Saltwater, Electricity and a Tin Earring

Popular Mechanics

15 DIY Workshop Tips from the Mythbusters

The Real-Life Science Behind Sci-Fi Flick Surrogates (With Video!) (video link on the page is broken.)

The Truth About Airplane Turbulence

Anybot's QA: The Best Humanoid Robot Yet (With Video)

Inside the New Harry Potter Movie's VFX Tech

Scientific American

Going with the Flow: The Recipe for Baking a Better Solar Cell

Try a Little Powerlessness-Pitfalls of Self-Control

Power-hungry supercomputers going green

Prey Tell: How Fish Track Their Quarry, Even When They Can't See It

Small-Scale Quantum Processor Gets Its Act Together

Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Shows Its Stuff by Detecting a Known Exoplanet

From 2-D to 3-D Sight: How One Scientist Learned to See

Discover Magazine

NASA's New Kepler Spacecraft Is Ready to Find Some Earths

Itching Is Its Own Sensation, Not Just Pain's Little Cousin

The Mystery of the Martian Methane Deepens, and Life Hangs in the Balance

9 Ways Carbon Nanotubes Just Might Rock the World

Found on a Martian Field: A Whomping Big Meteorite

The Ocean's Skin of Jelly

Capturing the Stars: Best Astrophotography of the Last 35 Years

Technology Review

An Operating System for the Cloud

Scaling Up a Quantum Computer - deals with the same subject as "Small Scale Quantum Processor Gets It's Act Together

A Browser's View of Your Computer

DOE Energy Hubs on the Brink

Bringing Graphene to Market

How Titan Got Its Atmosphere

Riding an Energy Beam to Space

A Robotic Arm for Lunar Missions

Ars Technica

Twitter not so popular with the young people

FCC wants real answers from ISPs on broadband investment

New WebGL standard aims for 3D Web without browser plugins

Storing text docs in XML may run afoul of Microsoft patent