Monthly Archives: August 2010

NASA Flies Plane Into Hurricane Earl

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 2

NASA, in its ongoing effort to study just about, well, everything, has outdone themselves this time. They flew a DC-8 into Hurricane Earl in an effort to study [..]

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The Physics Of X-Ray Imaging

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 11

So here is Part One of my series of the “Physics Of” medical imaging. First up is the most recognizable: X-ray Radiography. Radiography (which uses x-rays, but the [..]

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Hummingbirds in Slo-Mo and HD! OMG!

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 0

I know, I’ve been slacking this weekend. Why? Well it was Alison’s birthday on Friday. So I did the boyfriend thing and took her out for a nice [..]

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Woo Hoo! Isotopes Rule!

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 0

Gotta love the Isotopes! After a 15 month hiatus, the Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario, Canada, is starting to once again produce isotopes used for medical imaging. [..]

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Hurricane Katrina As Seen From Space: 5 Years Later

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 0

Its been almost 5 years since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. The city of New Orleans has not yet fully recovered from the devasting effect of the hurricane, [..]

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Dinosaur Found in Sewer by My House!

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 0

Yup, its totally true. A city worker in Edmonton, Alberta (not far from yours truly) was having a regular, shitty day at work in the sewer. Thats gonna [..]

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Sumo Wrestlers Getting Free iPads Because Hands Too Fat

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 0

Yup, its not a joke. Japan’s governing body of Sumo wrestling is going to distribute iPads to the various “stables”, which is where the wrestlers train (seriously, THATS [..]

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Our Glorious Planet: As Seen From Mercury

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Ryan | Permalink 3

I never ceases to amaze me just how massive the universe is. Take for example, this photo of the Earth and our moon, taken from roughly 114 million [..]