It may still be a lab experiment, but still, this could led to eventual mainstream adoption of solar power… Photoelectric current as function of photon energy was measured on single crystal TiO2 coated with a monolayer of PbS nanoparticles. The experiments conclusively showed that multiple electrons were generated and extracted from the nanoparticles for each […]
Little girls are not encouraged to carry or play with knives. While our brothers got Swiss Army Knives or Leathermen for their birthdays, we got Barbie Dolls. And those dolls were so encased in plastic that we had to ask our brothers to use their new blades to cut the poor things loose. Some women, […]
A team got within 500 vertical meters of the Marum Volcano on Ambrym island in September of 2010….
The Sheer insanity of it. Â Star Wars, as a Educational Film. Â Fantastic!
We’ve all seen it. Â The little “On My Mac” label in Apple Mail, or Entourage’s “On My Computer” label… Almost every modern mail package offers a similar feature, but many people don’t understand what this means… Â So here’s the scoop. There are three different major ways to handle email: Post Office Protocol (POP 3) IMAP […]
Right… Â I see how this is such a disaster waiting to happen. Â Someone from Kansas stops by, and doesn’t understand “4th AVENUE” is “4th Avenue”. Â Let’s get this straight, instead of decomissioning these signs in a staged manner, a capital letter is so dangerous that we have to spend $27.5 million dollars today! Is this […]
Funny, but in a sad way. Â The Onion is parodying the nanny state in this fake news clip. In The Know: Panelists discuss ways to care for the nation’s paranoid schizophrenics, such as hiding cameras in their homes or audio transmitters in their ears.