Some of you will have read the various press pieces about German company Nanopool who have announced their production of spray-on glass. Their November press release states… “SiO2 – ultra thin layering” is the technical term for Liquid Glass. The flexible and breathable glass coating is approximately 100 nanometres thick (500 times thinner than a …
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Category:Scepticism
EM Drive…
. NASA has recently announced that their research team has confirmed that the EM drive described above, when tested in a near vacuum, produced thrust. . The graph shows their raw data with error bars and the dotted line is their best fit line to show how the thrust in micro-newton (μN) is plotted against …
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Solar Freakin’ Roadways…
Here is the original sales pitch for a money-raising campaign for solar panels that fit into roads and other paved or tarmacked areas. It is a very wittily and cleverly put together piece of video advertising and it has so far raised 2.25 million dollars in public donations. . I would be interested to hear if …
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Signal Proof Headwear…
From the Kickstarter page… We are not saying that it protects 100% against all kinds of electromagnetic waves that are bad for your health, what we are saying is that if you care about yourself, be smart and put on this first signal proof apparel instead of the usual one – no one will spot it …
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Two Cultures…
I apologise in advance for the whimsical nature of this post. If you don’t want ‘philosophy’, you might prefer to read this, this or this; all of which are rich in sciency goodness and have interesting questions and comments for you to ponder. I was listening to Flanders and Swann (audio link at the end) …
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I Can See Clearly Now…
Eating carrots won’t improve your eyesight. That is, unless you have vitamin A deficiency which causes a condition known as nyctalopia (or night blindness). People suffering from this condition are less able to see in low light levels. In extreme cases it may lead to poor vision in the light as well. Nyctalopia is not …
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Tryptophan…
I go on about amino acids a lot. Sorry about that! If you click here you will be logged into Focus eLearning (come straight back!), then if you click here you will be taken to a nice page about how the digestive enzyme pepsin breaks a protein molecule in your food down into individual amino …
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Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes…
Not really magic – it is science but optical illusions so magic-adjacent. I thought about this because of a question on a Winchester Election paper about strobe lighting. They are two quite long videos but I thought they were worth sharing, particularly for those who like optical illusions. They left me baffled but delighted. . .. If you …
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Oily Fish…
I have eaten a lot of tinned sardines this week. Call me crazy but a warm baguette filled with good cheese and four oily sardines makes a great lunchtime snack. I prefer the ones packed in oil to the ones packed in tomato sauce but I am prepared to be open-minded on the issue. As …
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Symphony Of Science…
I was browsing the Symphony Of Science website and thought I would put one of the songs on here. They are videos of scientists talking about “Life, the Universe and Everything” but put to music. A program called Auto-Tune is used to turn normal spoken English into sung lyrics. It is the same technology that …
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