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Some days I am right some jeesly glad we don't live any closer to this thing:  •  Photo from over here.

I thought we gave up calling things "-otron". It's like science's version of "-arama". Anyway, Canada is unveiling its very own synchrotron tomorrow. I think its like a theramin but on a trolly sort of thing.  •  “Researchers in Saskatoon expect 2,000 colleagues from around the world to visit the …

In a recent New Yorker there was passing reference to a person making a killing and then suffering financial collapse as a participant in the pneumatic mailing tube industry. I am familiar from 1940's movies with the sending of mail in tubes within a building but apparently there were schemes to …

You do not need to be dealing with anti-evolutionists to be facing attempts to unravel simple knowledge for the all important, glorious cause of private interest. From the BBC today comes backlash against that well-known falsifier "Sid the Slug":  •  “The Salt Manufacturers' Association has …

I saw this on Boing and wondered what are we waiting for? A zippy machine that drinks split water and runs by reforming it and doesn't make you look like a dork like the mythical but seemingly world-winning and innovative except if you want to do something other than drive it around a parking lot …

Did anyone else notice that a space craft smashed into the planet today introducing space dust that has never entered the atmosphere since the atmosphere begain.  •  Cue the theramins!!!

Maritimers like me have this twisted view of Ontario as a land of concrete and no Alpine beer. At the east end of Lake Ontario, however, a cottage on a clean lake in the woods is far closer than it is from Halifax. This spot is 40 km from downtown Kingston.

Fish-head, too. I take it you have read this story about the chunk of the volcanic island of La Palma in the Canaries falling into the water.  •  “Computer models of the island's collapse show the first regions to be hit, with waves topping 100 metres (330ft), will be the neighbouring Canary …