Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? “Hint: The answer has more to do with ‘The Big Bang Theory’ than with longstanding theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude.” By Eileen Pollack.
And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ “An age of darkness ended with a searing light, which shook the earth, and the great device was rendered unto thee.” By Fred Vogelstein.
Physics and my favorite physicist: The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
“Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to present this online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Now, anyone with internet access and a web browser can enjoy reading a high-quality up-to-date copy of Feynman’s legendary lectures.”
So far, only the first volume is online, but the other two will hopefully follow soon.
Link via MetaFilter.
A Capella Science is the YouTube Channel of Tim Blais. He published Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody) about a year ago and released Bohemian Gravity! today. Recommended if you love physics or music or both. And don’t miss the Einstein puppet!
31 Things “Friends” Taught Us About Life. Complete with 31 animated gifs from the TV series. My favorite is the first one: How to get out of things: “I wish I could help, but I don’t want to.”
10 Fascinating Photos That Look Unbelievably Like Paintings. Link via MetaFilter.
BTW, I found the little star in my archives. Apparently it was all the rage back in 2000…
Guess who made it onto Wired‘s frontpage?
Check Out This Tiny 3-D Printed Spaceship
“The tiny spaceship in the video above was built using a microscale 3-D printer. At 125 micrometers long, the craft is about the length of a dust mite, and it took less than 50 seconds to produce. The super-fast, high-resolution printer that made the spaceship was introduced this week at the Photonics West fair by Nanoscribe GmbH, a company based in Germany that specializes in nanophotonics and 3-D laser lithography.”
My husband built the machine that built this tiny spaceship! :-)
[A few hours later:] The tiny spaceship is also featured on Gizmodo: Watch These Lasers Print a Microscopic Spaceship In Under a Minute.
MetaFilter: For no other reason other that we thought it would be quite nice:
A scientiest, liquid nitrogen and 1500 table tennis balls (video).
A shorter version without the explanation is here.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, passed away yesterday.
Some relevant videos:
I also highly recommend the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon (I’ve got it on DVD), the part about the Eagle landing is available online.
The Big Picture: Remembering Apollo 11.
“For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.”
Links via MetaFilter: Man on the moon, which is worth reading in its entirety because lots of people share their memories of the Apollo 11 mission and Neil Armstrong.
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