Category Archive: Science Fact

May 24

The Science Channel gets FRINGED

The Hollywood Reporter reported that The Science Channel, part of the Discovery Communication’s network, has made a deal to syndicate FRINGE.  Personally, that would not have been my first choice for a channel to show past episodes of Fringe.  But the channel that’s all about science may be a fitting home for the cult science …

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Dec 18

Neutrino faster than Light? Get Outta Here!

I got turned onto a very interesting article in the New York Times on the whole particle physics thing.  It’s widely know among us nerds and geeks that LIGHT is the fastest thing in the known universe.  It comes in at around 186,292 miles per second.  Science Fiction is full of instances of ‘Faster-than-Light’ engines and …

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Dec 14

Filming Light at 1 Trillionth of a Second.

MIT has developed a camera system that essentially films at 1 Trillionth of a second.  It is basically fast enough to capture a beam of light.  The camera doesn’t just simply take recurring photographs as normal cameras do, but uses an advanced system of combining millions of shots in various angles to produce a film. …

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Nov 02

NOVA Presents THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS

NOVA has a very long tradition of presenting incredible documentaries about science and the human condition.  Tonight is probably no exception.  THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS looks to be a very insightful 4 Part Series, devoted to explaining the newest ideas of Quantum Physics and how they relate to our everyday understanding of the universe …

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Sep 02

KHAN ACADEMY – A Piece of Utopian Future

Of course, all you geek brothers and sisters out there know that the internet is vast.  Almost anything you may want to know is available with a simple Google search.  Wikipedia alone has over 3.7 million articles at the date of this post.  And even though some question the validity of the information, Wikipedia is …

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