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Dr. Strangelove…
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - via wikipedia.org Today’s post is about nuclear bombs. Big boom. Mushroom clouds. Yep, those bombs. In our last post, we discussed the basic mechanism behind the...
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Clean, Green Energy: The Search for a Free Lunch
You’ve heard it all before, we need to find a new, sustainable, clean source of energy, and fast. People are looking to wind, solar, nuclear, and biofuels. But what do these things mean, really? Today,...
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Welcome Skepchicks!
For those of you who are here from Skepchick (and the rest of you too), HI! Here is a little plug for other places you can follow Emma. Being a school teacher and applying to grad school, she has a...
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… how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station This is the last post in our series of posts on nuclear energy. Here, I shall describe the basic principles behind the design and continued operation of a nuclear...
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The Science of a Simple Scam
Last weekend, I put up a couple of ads on Craigslist for some of my old furniture and appliances – amongst them, a big rug. For those of you who have never heard of such a thing, Craigslist is an...
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A Fly in the Ointment
SR-71B Blackbird - wikipedia.org I was flying last month to attend a graduation and it occurred to me that I was, in fact, flying in a large metal tub with metal flappy bits bolted on. How do...
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New Theme
The old theme felt a little cramped and too sterile. How do you guys feel about the new one? Thumbs up/down?
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Timeless Myths
Image by epSos.de via Flickr Today, we’re going to talk about time. Not time in the metaphysical sense, but the measurement of time. In most of the modern world, we use a number of common units of...
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Adding some Tux to Windows 7
When I switched to using Windows 7 for development purposes, I missed some of the comforts my trusty old Linux install had offered me. I was using XFCE (and before that, ion3) and depended on...
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Handing unix permissions with a Synology file server
I’m going to assume that you already have setup ssh access to your synology diskstation and are familiar with basic linux shell commands. Edit the samba config file at: /usr/syno/etc/smb.conf Add the...
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