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If it is going to be the future soon, where is my flying car?
by Jonathan Strickland | January 4, 2010
I read a short article in Reuters this morning that says that, according to a survey commissioned by ScoopDaily, a significant number of people say we aren’t as technologically developed as they imagined we would be by 2010. Apparently, people aged 35 to 54 are most likely to feel a sense of disappointment as far as technological development goes. To these people I’d just like to ask, “What planet are you on?”
If you’re like me, you’re not finished with your Christmas shopping yet. So that means our third suggestion isn’t coming too late for you. It might even be time to throw the budget out the window and just get the shopping done at any cost. Either way, we have another idea for you, and it should tuck nicely into your scientist’s stocking.
I wasn’t so sure I could even make it past the title of this one, folks. It’s hard to cleverly squeeze four podcast titles into a single line. This week brings another double dose of the podcast goodness because of our out-of-town trip last week. With that, let’s get on with it.
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck discuss the Large Hadron Collider, from its purpose and origins to how likely it is to wipe out all life in the universe.
World Record #115 – The many world records of the Large Hadron Collider
by Marshall Brain | December 3, 2009
It was big news this week when the broke the Large Hadron Collider world record for the highest-energy particle beams: Large Hadron Collider Sets World Record CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts), surpassing the previous [...]
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – “Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider [...]
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