Archive for Technology and Science

Wildfire surrounds Mount Wilson Obvservatory

by: WanderingTechy September 2, 2009

But it’s safe at the moment.  Directly from the observatory There is also a picture taken from the air here it’s picture 24 in this Gallery. There are firemen on site and 750,000 gallons of water is available.

Molecular biology for the computer nut.

by: WanderingTechy September 2, 2009

This guy is if not a genius, very interesting.  He is into all sorts and his blog makes fascinating reading. This blog here describes how viruses work and how he could make the H1N1 strain lethal.  He doesn’t have any plans for doing so please note.  He also makes analogies between computer and DNS/RNA that [...]

BBC iPlayer goes HD

by: WanderingTechy April 22, 2009

As mentioned in a previous post, it has now happened. bbc.co.uk announces that HD has finally come to the iPlayer.

US overtakes Germany for Wind Power

by: WanderingTechy February 1, 2009

Not sure if that is something to boast about.. Scientific American has an article stating “The United States overtook Germany as the biggest producer of wind power last year” My first reaction was so what. I then had a little thought, how are they quantifying biggest. According to the Article the USA has 25GW of [...]