Roy’s Place For Web Links:
Here’s a Great Chart Of SOME Of The Chemical Reactions Going On In EACH of Your Trillions Of Cells!
Maybe Don’t Eat Glitter, FDA Says
Magnetic Logic – How To Get Hysteresis Loss To Work For You (A Great YouTube Video)
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From Paul WS2N: Curious What “The Winds Of Mars” Sound Like? Well, Listen For Yourself (I Hope That Your Computer Has A Sub-Woofer To Produce These Low Pitched Sounds)
China Gears Up for Ambitious Landing on the Moon’s Far Side – From IEEE Spectrum Article
Here’s A Wonderful Demonstration Of The True Scale Of Our “Little” Solar System – Enjoy!
Here’s A Curious Cartoon Film Noir By SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Of The Death Of A Proton…
Here’s A Very Nice Demonstration Of The Current And Voltage Distribution Of A Magnetic Loop Antenna
…And Here’s Another SImilar Demonstration For The Voltage and Current Distribution For A Magnetic Loop Antenna
Reports of First Genetically Enhanced Babies Spark Outrage
60 Minute Show Discussing CRISPR
DNA That Should Only Pass Down from Mothers Can Come from Fathers, Too
By The Way, Here’s A YouTube That Shows Some Things That Commercial Genetic Testing Have Revealed!
Sticky Hydrogel Could Revolutionize Knee Surgery
Why the Large Hadron Collider Is Shutting Down for Two Years
Fluoride Discovery Could Lead To Much Longer-Lasting EV Batteries
A Very Nice YouTube That Discusses The Nature Of “Resonance”
The First 8K Satellite TV Broadcasts Launched in Japan
NASA Scientists Find Possibly Infectious Superbugs on Board the ISS
White House Seeks Alternatives to Independent Space Force
MEMs – New Technology That’s Showing Up All Over the Place!
These Precision Parts 3D-Printed from Fake Moon Dust Bring Us One Step Closer to Living on Mars
Keeping “Junior” As Sterile as Possible May Not Be The Best Thing To Do!
Are Those Standing Desks as Good as Their Manufacturers Keep Suggesting?
Exercise Is Really Good for You, Really!!!
The Old Standard for The Second Might Be Replaced with Something Even Shorter
Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier
A YouTube Trip To The Akihabara Electronic District of Tokyo Japan
More News Regarding Our Interstellar Visitor – Oumauamua
A Brand New YouTube Video On Max Planck, Black Body Radiation, and the Planck Constant
Veritasium’s New YouTube Video Reporting This Week’s General Conference on Weight and Measures
The General Conference on Weights and Measures Voted to Redefine Units of Measurement, Establish Exact Values of Some Constants, and Demote other Constants to Approximations
Bizarre Microbes Represent a Major New Branch on the Evolutionary Family Tree
The FDA Is Failing to Keep Us Safe From Tainted Supplements
Why Cancer Is Replacing Heart Disease as the Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
Analysis of Neanderthal Teeth Reveals Unexpected Exposure to Lead
Are Spray-On Antennas the Future of Wearables?
Samsung Has Figured Out EUV, The Holy Grail of Chipmaking
Your Brain Tries to Change Focus Four Times per Second
How Zinc Batteries Could Change Energy Storage
This New Coating Could Help Keep Buildings Cool
From Paul WS2N – A Website Link For A Video Of The Launch Of An Electron Rocket
The Way We Define a Kilogram Could Change Next Week
…And Here’s A Very Nice YouTube Veritasium Video On The Kibble (watt) Scale Used
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(That small white dot in the middle is Oumuamua – do you see the little alien waving “hello” out of the porthole?)
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This is Oumuamua’s trajectory into our Solar System and then out again.
No, ‘Oumuamua Is Probably Not an Alien Spaceship
…And Here’s A Very Nice YouTube Video on Oumuamua
Real Moon Rocks Go Up For Auction in New York, Expected to Fetch Nearly $1 Million
UCF Selling Experimental Martian Dirt—$20 A Kilogram, Plus Shipping
Look How Tightly You Can Squish Mosquitoes Without Killing Them
Even Stronger Opioid Approved By the FDA!?
Here’s An Interesting YouTube That Tries To Explain Some Aspects Of What “Electric Charge” Really Means
Paul WS2N’s ISS Exploded View Website!
Got $600+ Burning a Hole In Your Pocket, And You Just Have To Have Your Own ISS Model?
A New Vaccine Technology Might Impart Better General Immunity, With a Single Nasal Spray
Study of Cellphone Risks Finds ‘Some Evidence’ of Link to Cancer, at Least in Male Rats
Real Moon Rocks Go Up For Auction in New York, Expected to Fetch Nearly $1 Million
Optical Illusions Are Awful On The Radio, But They Are Great on Web Pages – How Many “Dots” Can You See at One Time In This Illustration?
Want To See More New Optical Illusions? Well, Here Are 10 Award Winning Optical Illusions for 2018!
Could This Possibly Be This Worth $432,000 To You?
AI-Generated Painting Sells For $432,000 At Auction
Study Indicates That “Space Brain” Is a Real Phenomenon
Bose Hearing Aid Gets FDA Approval
Gee… Didn’t I See Something Like That Somewhere Before?
Oh Yeah! That’s It!
Is Nikola Tesla’s Ghost Haunting the Folks of Carl’s Corner, Texas?
(And Some Opinions From Some Skeptics.)
Here Is A Great Demonstration That RF Connectors Have Negligible Insertion Loss…
This Year’s Flu Season Has Already Claimed Its First Pediatric Victim
More On Banksy’s Million Dollar Prank!
More On The Ultimate Black Pigment and The Great Pigment Wars!
The Dumbest Gizmo That I Have Seen In A While
Just One Demonstration Of What Happens When You Miss Your Sleep!
…And Here’s A Great TEDTalk On Sleep
New Theory Explains Why Europe’s Original Dogs Vanished
New U.S. Weapons Systems Are A Hackers’ Bonanza
Most Commercial Graphene Is Just Expensive Pencil Lead
A Mission to Deflect An Asteroid Just Moved Into The Final Design and Assembly Phase
Correlation Does Not Imply Causation!
Just because almost every person that has died has lied down on a mattress within the previous 24 hours, doesn’t mean that mattresses kill you.
(Or has this entry been paid for by the notorious, secretive mattress manufacturing industry?????)
The Viscosity Of One Of The Tiniest Things In Your Body?
What Scientist Found Out Using Their Shiny New Fastest Stopwatch!
The Silliest Patent That I’ve, Recently, Seen
Polygraph Tests Don’t Work As Lie Detectors, And They Never Have
When Art and Technology Combine
The Flu Killed More Americans Last Winter Than It Has in Decades
Professor Walter Lewin’s New Set of YouTube Physics Problems
A link to last week’s TAPR Digital Communications Conference on YouTube
New Pictures From MINERVA-II Rovers On The Surface Of The Asteroid Ryugu
Here’s A Nice Wide Angle Snapshot of Curiosity…
But Who Or What Snapped It???
Does Reading This Help You Memorize the Gettysburg Address?
Some guys with fancy degrees believe that text written in fonts that aren’t very readable can “stick in your mind”. The font above was specially designed to help boost memory. Try to give it a “read” and tell me if you know the Gettysburg Address any better than before.
China Used Tiny Chips On US Computers To Steal Secrets
Here’s A Link To A Source For NASA Astronaut Transcripts From The Mercury Missions All The Way To The Apollo Missions!
Here’s Humorous Article Regarding Just One Of These NASA Transcripts (Rated PG-13).
A Nice YouTube Video Regarding The First Word Spoken On The Moon!
Real Planet Discovered Where Vulcan Home World in “Star Trek” Is Set
A Common Painkiller Has Serious Heart Risks, Study Finds
Heralding The 2018 Harvest Moon
To Avoid Vision Problems in Space, Astronauts Will Need Some Kind of Artificial Gravity
Why You Can Smell Rain—Even Though It’s Odorless
Study Claims White Noise Can Damage Your Brain, But Don’t Panic
From The SpaceNetReport: Paul WS2N, Sent Me A Photo Showing The Four Landing Legs On The SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster, Which Are 30 Feet Long Each:
Links for this week’s ScienceTalk Segment:
Quote For The Day:
“Correlation IS NOT Causation!”
Here’s A Fun YouTube, That Mocks The Absurd Concept Of A SPACE FORCE!
NASA’s Public CO2 Challenge Could Help Astronauts Endure On Mars
A Tiny Chinese Satellite Is Orbiting The Moon And Allowing Radio Amateurs To Download Images: First Link; Second Link; Third Link
Physicists Achieve Incredible Electron-Accelerating Feat at Small Scale and…
…What Is Wakefield Technology That Makes This Magic Happen Anyway???
If You Smell Things That Aren’t Really There, You’re Not Alone
Here Are Some More YouTubes Disputing Flat Earth Factoids:
Here’s a nice “tongue in cheek” presentation…
And here’s a more sober, well produced refutation video
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NASA Confirms The Presence Of Ice At the Moon’s Poles
People Should Know Better Than To Step Through Museum Exhibits. Maybe Life Is A Looney Toon?
(Here’s Some Information on VANTABlack Blacker-Than-Black Pigment)
Huge Patch of Universe Is Strangely Opaque Despite Its Lack of Galaxies
The Boötes Void
Scientists Will Soon Drop Antimatter To See How It Behaves in Gravity
Physicists Just Made the Most Precise Measurement Ever of Gravity’s Strength
Russia Won’t Replace Its Aging Proton Rocket Before 2024
MIT Finds a Way For Submarines To Talk Directly To Airplanes
From Paul WS2N, with the Space Report: Pioneering European winds observatory launched aboard Vega rocket
The ARRL Maintains a List of RFI Car Model Problems – Here It Is!
All The Ham Bands Are Out!? Here’s why!
Some High, and Some Not So High Tech Product Announcements From This Past Week:
Nikon’s New Line of Mirrorless Cameras and “Z” Mount S Lenses
NVIDIA’s New Line of RTX Graphic Boards
DJI’s New Line of Mavic 2 Drones
Logitech’s New “Sideways Mouse”
Sony’s New Robot Dog – AIBO Reborn
Russia’s finest:
Kalashnikov’s Igorek
Kalashnikov’s CV-1 EV Car
Humans have a hard time ‘killing’ robots, especially when they beg for their lives.
Here’s a link to explain the “Dunning-Kruger” Effect
And here is a YouTube link that will demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action – enjoy!
How Will NASA Know If Opportunity Is Okay After the Martian Dust Storm?
Excavation Begins on a Truly Giant New Telescope
Scientists Solve Spaghetti Mystery That Irked Richard Feynman
Astronomers blown away by historic stellar blast
Fermilab gets ready to upgrade accelerator complex for more powerful particle beams
The Large Hadron Collider Accelerated ‘Atoms’ With Electrons for the First Time
Our Skies Are More Watched Than Ever, So Why Are Reported UFO Sightings on the Decline?
Pence details plan for creation of Space Force in what would be the sixth branch of the military
Neurons can carry more than one signal at a time
10-Year-Old Boy Recovers Impressively After One-Sixth of His Brain Is Removed
Russian Scientists Claim to Have Resurrected 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried in Ice
The World’s Fastest Creature Is Not What You Think
From Paul WS2N, with the Space Report: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe begins a journey to Sun
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Not Dead Yet, May Even Have Another Exoplanet Survey Left in It
NASA must reassess its Mars program – or future missions could fail, the report warns
Some Interesting YouTubes:
How Tides Work
Back Holes
Zero-Point Energy Demystified
The Amazing New Shape – The Scutoid!
(And an interesting YouTube Video on the subject.)
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations
How 5G makes use of millimeter waves
More Than 1,200 Genes Associated with Educational Attainment Identified
Kilowatt Reactor Using StirlingTechnologY (KRUSTY) Experiment
and MORE!
Top Scientists Explain to Senators Why We Must Look for Aliens
The Scientific Method (a YouTube Video presentation)
History Of Science (a YouTube Video presentation)
An Entire College Curriculum Of Physics (a YouTube Video presentation)
A Book Recommendation – The Ascent Of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything, by Marcus Chown
Liquid water discovered beneath Mars’ south pole (and here’s a nice YouTube Video on the subject)
One Last Map of the Ancient Universe Revealed From Defunct Spacecraft’s Data
Our Neighbor Andromeda May Have Cannibalized Another Galaxy
Beautiful New Images of our nearby celestial objects, or two, and not so beautiful images.
Russia may send a robot ‘crew’ to space in 2019
Sunspot Surprise The sun’s dark spots cycle every 11 years— as well as every 88, 200, and 2,400 years <–
The Amateur Radio Parity Act Stalls Out Again
Congressional Committee Grills NASA and Northrop Grumman on James Webb Space Telescope Delays
A domestic electron ion collider would unlock scientific mysteries of atomic nuclei
How Can Space Travel Faster Than the Speed Of Light?
A YouTube discussion of Feynman’s Lost Lecture – Why bodies orbit in ellipses.
A Free Copy of Feynman’s Physics Lectures
A Link To The Feynman Lecture Series Boxed Set (not free)
Watch the brain jiggle with each heartbeat
New Color X-Ray Imaging Technology
Ionic liquid formulation makes an oral insulin pill
Eye drop treatments for age-related macular degeneration.
A new research revealed that tiny creatures living in complete darkness have once dominated our planet
An Unusual Asteroid Pair Discovered
SK John Hey’s Heyphone device was used in the rescue of 13 stranded in a Thai cave…
And a full description of the HeyPhone!
Where do very high energy cosmic rays come from?
Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?
We Found Some Of The Universe’s Misplaced Matter!
(and here’s a nice YouTube on the subject!)
Icarus offers more insight into the possible nature of dark matter
Earth’s rivers cover 44 percent more land than we thought
Stone tools put early hominids in China 2.1 million years ago
Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa
Interested in entangling your own photons in the privacy of your own home?
Well, here’s the more expensive way, explained in a YouTube video…
And here’s a much less expensive way with odds and ends that you might find around your house!
Curious why symmetry can be related to Conservation Laws In Physics?
Well, here is a nice explanation of Noether’s Theorem…
And if you are still interested here is a very nice visual attempt to describe what Force Symmetries look like!
Longest Lunar Eclipse In This Century
A Baby Planet Is Born
How do you get a million asteroids? Start with five small planets, says a new study.
Another giant study confirms that your coffee habit is probably good for you
Bizarre ‘Sonic Attack’ Symptoms Reportedly Spreading to US Diplomats Around the World
European Dogs Devastated Indigenous American Pup Populations –
Disease, cultural change wiped out pre-contact populations, leaving no trace of ancient dogs’ DNA in modern counterparts
If you don’t own your own telescope, or it is on the wrong part of the planet for your viewing here’s a way around that – The Virtual Telescope Project.
Here is a very nice YouTube video that presents just a few of the many Cognitive Biases – the corners cut by our thought processes that cause us to come up with poor decisions!
Here’s a Wikipedia source, which includes a very nice diagram of many Cognitive Biases. Some people mount that diagram in their work areas!
Here is a beautiful video demonstrating the beauty of fluid dynamics and vortex collisions – you don’t have to understand the principles to enjoy the beauty of it all!
Have you ever heard people talking about Maxwell’s Equations? Something about “Curls” and “Divergences”? Those are something called “Vector Operations”. If you want to see a beautiful visual explanation, which is much more fun than dry old equations, check this YouTube video out!
I am reading a very interesting biography of Max Planck (Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War 1st Edition; by Brandon R. Brown), seen through the filter of Germany towards the end of WW II – a tale of a kind and decent man placed in an untenable position by his sense of patriotism and self-preservation for himself and his family. A definite recommendation if you enjoy science history.
Einstein’s Theory of Gravity Passes Enormous Test on a Galaxy
Massive Genetic Study Finds Many Links Between Various Psychiatric Illnesses
Oh Joy, We Just Found Another Virus Spread By Mosquitoes That Might Make Us Sick
Fish Don’t Do So Well in Space
Actually, T. Rex Probably Couldn’t Stick Out Its Tongue
Childhood Virus May Have a Role in Alzheimer’s Disease
Mysterious mountain waves in Venus’s atmosphere put a new spin on a day
New Model Predicts That We’re Probably the Only Advanced Civilization in the Observable Universe
Discovery in the sky with nanodiamonds
Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time
Nuclear Reactor On The Sea
How Our Brains Make Memories
False Memories – Day Care Hysteria
This NASA Satellite Can Map the Planet’s Soil Moisture Content In Just Three Days
CERN begins a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider
Research shows short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary neutron star mergers
Scientists discover a new magnetic element
Skin responsible for greater exposure to carcinogens in barbecue smoke than lungs
Engineers design color-changing compression bandage
Scientists produced world’s first 3D printed corneas
Seawater yields first grams of yellowcake
Baby Born in World’s First In Utero Stem Cell Transplant Trial
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
Nuclear Battery Prototype Delivers 10X More Power
New graphene oxide desiccants will be twice as absorbent as silica gel
NIF achieves record double fusion yield
The composition of Complex Sugars in Breast Milk May Prevent Future Food Allergies
Scientists have Discovered a Biomarker for the Flu, Making it Possible to Determine who will get Sick upon Exposure
Wikipedia’s Take On The Sun (it is a very thorough overview of the subject)
Nice discussion on calculating the mass-energy conversion efficiency of our Sun
Oak Ridge’s New Supercomputer Is The Fastest One In The World (Again).
Higher Education Seems to Increase Your Chance of Becoming Nearsighted.
CPU Manufacturers Show Off “Their CPU Count Is Higher Than Yours”!
Sounds In China Are Making People As Sick As It Did In Cuba.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Presents a Simple Model for the Earth rotating every 19 hours 1.4 Billion Years Ago (Thank you, Moon)!
Scientist Think That Honey Bees Understand The Concept of “Nothing”?
Human Prion (Something “almost” alive) Genetically Engineered By Scientist For Experimentation.
Lightning on Jupiter Appears Very Similar To Lightning On Earth.
Sterile Neutrinos May Have Been Recently Discovered – Which Can Change Science’s Idea Of The Standard Model.
Curiosity On Mars Shows That IF Life ever Existed There, There Are Organic Molecules That Might Have Nourished It.
Scientist Announce A “Flux Capacitor”, But It won’t Let you Travel Through Time – It Is A Microwave RF Circulator.
New Meta-Material Might Improve Passive Heat Dissipation.
Local New Jersey Teenage Amateur Radio Operator is building his own Integrated Circuit Foundry and plans to build his own Intel 4004 clone which possesses more than 2000 discrete solid state devices.
Last year’s LIGO observation of two Neutron Stars colliding seems to have produced the smallest known black hole.
A proposed ISS experiment that tests how Quantum Mechanics and Relativity might meet.
Sunlight may be slowing down the spin of our Sun.
Read about how scientists used Neutrons striking Helium nuclei to check if the Gravitational Constant remained constant at very small distances and very low masses (it did).
Astronomy.AC2GS.com – Astronomy – Measuring Distance, Size, and Luminosity (1 of 30) Biggest Challenge in Astronomy
Bang.AC2GS.com – Before the Big Bang 1 – Loop Quantum Cosmology Explained
Candle.AC2GS.com – Introduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)
Dark.AC2GS.com – This Weird Galaxy Is Actually 99.99 Percent Dark Matter
Drone.AC2GS.com – If You Fly a Drone in a Closed Box on a Scale, Will the Box Weigh Less?—Mind-Blowing Experiment!
Hawking.AC2GS.com – A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation. (Stephen Hawking’s Last paper!)
Icarus.AC2GS.com – Extreme magnification of an individual star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens. (Paper on “Icarus” the farthest sole star sighted in space!)
Icarus2.AC2GS.com – Meet Icarus: The Farthest Star We’ve Ever Seen. (Nice YouTube about the new farthest lone star “Icarus”.
Lift.AC2GS.com – How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift
Lift2.AC2GS.com – The Secret of Flight – understanding why it is possible to fly.
Light.AC2GS.com – This Galaxy Has No Dark Matter (A Galaxy with very little “Dark Matter”!)
Lightning.AC2GS.com – Lightning is Complicated – Sixty Symbols (a great YouTube video on the subject of lightning).
Microscope.AC2GS.com – The Microscope Mission to test gravity at its extremes!
Radiation.AC2GS.com – Hawking Radiation | Space-Time (a more accurate description of how Hawking Radiation really works).
Uncertain.AC2GS.com – The more general uncertainty principle, beyond quantum
Polywater.AC2GS.com – An actual article on how to make, as well as experiment with, your own sample of Polywater, as written in an issue of Popular Science from 1973!
Weightless.AC2GS.com – A great article explaining common misconceptions regarding “weightlessness”!
Gravity.AC2GS.com – The best YouTube video I have seen that attempts to explain the Relativistic view of Gravity – that it doesn’t “pull” or “push” and may not be a “real force” after all!
Monty.AC2GS.com – One of many YouTube explanations fo the “Monty Hall Paradox” for those that don’t quite believe in it YET!
Monty2.AC2GS.com – Here’s something fun! A Monty Hall Problem simulator. You can run it yourself or have it automatically change from your initial choice a thousand times and see what percentage your winning are!
Potato.AC2GS.com – This is an excellent YouTube presentation of the so-called Potato Paradox.
