Ariel Waldman

Details of the surface of Mars (Particolari della superficie di...

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:53:59 -0700

Details of the surface of Mars (Particolari della superficie di Marte) in 1890 by Giovanni Schiaparelli (by peacay)

Tumbleweed Inspires Next Generation Mars Rover Design

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:46:25 -0700

Tumbleweed Inspires Next Generation Mars Rover Design

Martian canals depicted by Percival Lowell 1914 (by peacay)

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:45:49 -0700

Martian canals depicted by Percival Lowell 1914 (by peacay)

orbitingfrog: LHC Drawings in the style of Leonardo da Vinci -...

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:30:09 -0700

orbitingfrog:

LHC Drawings in the style of Leonardo da Vinci - via @chrisenorth

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

Sat, 19 May 2012 17:48:17 -0700

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil:

Forbes debunks some claims from The Oatmeal comic that went around about Tesla.

Magnetic bacteria may be building future bio-computers

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:20:19 -0700

Magnetic bacteria may be building future bio-computers

“At first we couldn’t believe this amazingcrystal...

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:53:00 -0700

“At first we couldn’t believe this amazingcrystal clear caterpillar wasn’t a render from some art student’s DeviantArt gallery. But after scrutinizing the shots in Photoshop, and digging around online, it turns out this real-life gummy worm, known as the Jewel Caterpillar, is most definitely real.

Photographed by scuba Instructor and amateur photographer Gerardo Aizpuru, the Jewel Caterpillar grows to just barely over an inch in length and is a member of the moth species known as Acraga coa. As camouflage goes, it’s almost like the caterpillar uses mother nature’s version of a cloaking device.”

(via You Won’t Believe This See-Through Clear Caterpillar Isn’t CG)

M83 produces more than just amazingly awesome music. Also...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:43:12 -0700

M83 produces more than just amazingly awesome music. Also produces extraordinary black hole outbursts from 15 million light years away.

Black Hole Outburst in Spiral Galaxy M83

Editor’s note: this pretty image is a rotated and cropped version of the original, located here:chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/m83/. A nice one from Chandra!

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered an extraordinary outburst by a black hole in the spiral galaxy M83, located about 15 million light years from Earth.

(photo by NASA/STScI/Middlebury College/F.Winkler et al.)

blech: Another picture of William Forsythe’s Scattered Crowd...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:56:55 -0700

blech:

Another picture of William Forsythe’s Scattered Crowd installation.

animalstalkinginallcaps: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY’VE CANCELED THE...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:15:48 -0700

animalstalkinginallcaps:

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY’VE CANCELED THE ASTRONOMERS-ONLY DANCE-OFF AND EMCEE BATTLE?

I’VE BEEN PRACTICING FOR MONTHS. MY MOVES ARE TIGHT. MY BODY LOOSE AS A COMET’S ION TAIL. I INTENDED TO STEP OUT OF THE BOOTH SMELLING LIKE BURBERRY COLOGNE, THEN GRIP THE MIC AND SERVE THOSE BASTARDS FROM OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY.

Kenya's Startup Boom - Technology Review

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:27:06 -0700

Kenya's Startup Boom - Technology Review:

Debating if I should write a blog post about my first imoressions of Kenya.

My kind of prototype! xplanes: “February 27, 1975 — Employees...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:05:57 -0700

My kind of prototype!

xplanes:

“February 27, 1975 — Employees at Rockwell International Corporations Space Division, Downey, Calif., look over a full-scale mockup of the Space Shuttle orbiter..” (via, photo via aharvey2k’s Flickr)

Creepy Awesome Sea Slime

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:14:25 -0700

Creepy Awesome Sea Slime:

My collection of creepy awesome sea slime that I come across on the interwebs.

Clipped the all-time best quote from @ProfBrianCox

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:55:02 -0700

Clipped the all-time best quote from @ProfBrianCox

2020: iPad app aggregates sonic data from acoustic buoys to...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:40:22 -0700

2020:

iPad app aggregates sonic data from acoustic buoys to determine whale locations, transmits locations to nearby vessels, allowing them to avoid colliding with endangered whales.

Mars for the 'average person'

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:57:00 -0700

Mars for the 'average person':

In 10-15 years, you could buy an actual trip to Mars for $500k. Told you this was the beginning of an era.

I’m totally over the moon about this: I’m featured in a TV spot...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:02:40 -0800

I’m totally over the moon about this: I’m featured in a TV spot airing on SyFy as part of their Let’s Imagine Greater campaign! You can catch it “live” on the SyFy channel this weekend: Saturday @ 6:13pm EST & Sunday @ 5:33pm EST. Or just check it out above!

SyFy’s tagline is “Let’s Imagine Greater” and this is part of a campaign to get everyone to imagine amazing things – and hopefully create them! This is very much in line with my work: Spacehack.org is about anyone being able to explore space and make scientific discoveries, and Science Hack Day is all about getting excited and making things with science. You can hear more about my story and some of my miscellaneous thoughts at my page on the Let’s Imagine Greater site.

The shoot was so much fun – I was acting out a lot of things on green screen, so it’s great to see how it all comes together in the end. I really loved filming on a set – I hope it’ll be the first of many.

photo by David Chun

photo by David Chun

Me & creative director Chris Dooley, photo by David Chun

More photos from the shoot are at http://flic.kr/s/aHsjz5pTM4.

Want to chat with me about imagining amazing-awesome-weird science-y things or how you can get involved as a spacehacker? Save the date: March 28, 4-5pm EST. I’ll be hosting a live TweetChat – follow @letsimaginegrtr and join the discussion at http://tweetchat.com/room/letsimaginegreater or by watching #letsimaginegreater.

sexymachinery: LHD The Large Helical Device (LHD) project...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:27:36 -0800

sexymachinery:

LHD

The Large Helical Device (LHD) project involves construction of the world’s largest superconducting helical device, which employs a heliotron magnetic field originally developed in Japan. The objectives are to conduct fusion-plasma confinement research in a steady-state machine and to elucidate important research issues in physics and engineering for helical plasma reactors.

itsfullofstars: Mary Roach, Packing for Mars

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:21:21 -0800

itsfullofstars:

Mary Roach, Packing for Mars

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:24:05 -0800

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts:

I’ve seen this link a bunch of times and yet every time I return to it I start LOLing. <3