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The STS-130 Shuttle Mission #18 – Getting ready to come home
by Marshall Brain | February 19, 2010
The following video talks about NASA’s activities yesterday, as the shuttle crew starts making preparations to come home: The video talks about the view out of the new Cupola, boosting the space station to a higher orbit, stowing equipment in the shuttle for the return home, capping off oxygen tanks and so on. Day 11 [...]
Yesterday I blogged about Vatican astronomer Guy J. Consolmagno’s thoughts on the relationship between science and religion — and the conflict that sometimes emerges there. I thought the planetary scientists turned Jesuit brother presented a very positive, thought-provoking view on the matter. But in the interest of providing another take less rooted in Western monotheism, I thought we’d turn to Varadaraja V. Raman.
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another TechStuff Podcast Roundup! This week, we responded to listener requests for episodes about HTML5 and Windows 7.
HTML5 is the next iteration of hypertext markup language. HTML is the standardized language Web designers use to build Web sites. You’ve probably used some HTML code at some point. The markup language tells Web browsers how to display Web pages through tags. There are pre-defined tags for header styles, font colors, hypertext links, special effects and more.
Last night the Brain family went to the library. We went for two reasons. First, Leigh wanted to check out a book she had reserved. Second, it lets the kids check out kid books. Think about how utterly fantastic a library is. The government, on behalf of its citizens, builds a building, staffs it and [...]
When you drink cold water, your body exerts an effort to warm up the liquid and, in doing so, burns calories. So does that make drinking ice water an effective weight loss strategy? Find out in this episode of BrainStuff.
The lovely city of Venice has many nicknames, from La Serenissima (the most serene) to the Queen of the Adriatic. Take a virtual tour of Italy’s famous “floating city” — and learn some fascinating trivia along the way — in this episode.
As a leading physicist at NASA, Jack Cover already had a few achievements under his belt. Yet his Stuff of Genius was something completely unrelated. Tune in and learn how a fateful encounter with an electric fence led to the taser in this episode.
People have told vampire legends for thousands of years, and the monster’s image has continuously changed over time. You already know that some people believe in vampires — but what kind? Listen in and learn more about energy vampires in this episode.
12 car innovation we cant wait to see/ – “Some may remember that back in the 1980s power windows were regarded as a luxury item in an automobile. Others may remember that in those very years we were imagining the automobile of the early 2000s as something spectacular and Star Trek like. It turns out [...]
A picture paints a thousand words: If you are a paying customer, this is what you get This was one (perhaps the only) advantage to video tape – you had some level of control over this kind of time-wasting stuff. [[[Jump to previous Funny...]]]
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