Cinema In 2500 BC

Cinema In 2500 BC

True or false: The cinema was invented in the late 19th century. It's only true if you consider the cinema to be artificial projection.   It turns out that the original idea behind the cinematic…
Satellites and Sea Ice

Satellites and Sea Ice

Satellites are being used to look at practically everything you can think of. Well, maybe not. But if you take a single subject like ice, it is amazing how many ways you can look at it with a…
The Physics Of The Vuvuzela

The Physics Of The Vuvuzela

If you've watched any World Cup games so far (and a record 15 million in the US watched Saturday's match versus Ghana, so statistically, ummm, 50,000 people in our audience have watched at least one…
Justifying Solar Sonification

Justifying Solar Sonification

While I'm busy building an instrument to convert the ionosphere to music, this NASA group has sonified the Sun.  Astronomers at Univ. of Sheffield "found that huge magnetic loops that have been…