Why I Am Not Having A Screening Mammogram

Why I Am Not Having A Screening Mammogram

Conventional Canadian wisdom suggests that all women should have a screening mammogram starting at age 50 (age 40 in most of the USA). The reason given is that mammograms detect cancers earlier,…
Orbit Power Calculations

Orbit Power Calculations

Fellow Tubesat pioneer Wesley Faler of Fluid&Reason has calculated power curves we can expect for our orbiting picosatellites.  His summarized estimate is that 6-cell solar panel in a sun-…
MyPlate vs. Evolution

MyPlate vs. Evolution

The new food pyramid is no longer a pyramid, it is shaped more like a pie...but they don't want you to call it a pie, because that isn't very healthy, so they call it a plate. And it is better than…
Giant Squid Multi-Costume

Giant Squid Multi-Costume

One of my friends recently asked for help in designing a giant squid costume to be worn by multiple people. So I sketched this up: In case you can't read my AMAZING handwriting, here's the text: -…
WIMPs Result Sheds Some Light On Dark Matter?

WIMPs Result Sheds Some Light On Dark Matter?

The expansion of the universe should slow as time marches on, some even conjectured it would slow and then collapse again - that's what all that mass and its gravity in the universe should do. But…
Machines of Tender Loving Grace (3)

Machines of Tender Loving Grace (3)

Here, for completeness, is the last in this group about the BBC series  All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the…