Guest: Liberty Naud When you walk into a room full of kids who are supposed to be learning and find them playing solitare on their computers what do you do? Liberty Naud starts a nationwide education initiative and it works. Also, OMG ROBOTS!!! Host: Michael Doornbos Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe... Continue Reading →
If I have any regrets in 2011, it's not building a trip to this event into my travel budget. There is so much awesome here, it's unbelievable. It's completely sold out already! hackerSPACE Workshop Agenda Day One Welcome and Introduction – Kris Kimel 9:00 – 9:30am Why go to space? – Bob Twiggs 9:30 –... Continue Reading →
Kirk Cameron from Miserware joins us today. Their free software package Grano.la installs on Windows and Linux and PC and saves you power and money without you noticing a thing. You can be green without even knowing it with just a few mouse clicks. Hard to argue with that. Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and... Continue Reading →
Today Michael is joined by Dr Stuart Clark, author of books such as Deep Space, The Sun Kings, Galaxy and many others. Topics of today's show: Dark matter isn't adding up Astronauts have funny rituals, maybe a stuffed animal book is in order We're running out of Cosmological data It would be wonderful to live... Continue Reading →
Today Michael is joined by Dr Stuart Clark, author of books such as Deep Space, The Sun Kings, Galaxy and many others. Stuart is a noted lecturer and we talk about: Methane on Mars, maybe the biggest research story to tackle in 2009Astronomy controversies 150 years agoA new theory of gravity. Maybe dark matter doesn't... Continue Reading →
This short TED talk doesn't need much introduction. His quote at the end is one of my favorites of all time: "Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate. That there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete, and... Continue Reading →
?Like many kids that grew up in the Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Anything era I spent hours perfecting my technique for producing the perfect laser gun sound: beew beew! Today, from the 'why-the-heck-isn't-this-front-page-news' file comes this AP story. Oh nothing major, only that we've just completed the world's most powerful super-laser that can simulate... Continue Reading →
According to the Houston Cronicle a Scientist may have cold fusion breakthrough. A U.S. Navy researcher announced today that her lab has produced "significant" new results that indicate cold fusion-like reactions. If the work by analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss and her colleagues is confirmed, it could open the door to a cheap, near-limitless reservoir of... Continue Reading →
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