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Flat faced hominid discovered in Spain

This is interesting, most anthropologists seem to believe that humans originated in Africa, and then in a wave of migration known as the ‘out of Africa’ theory spread into other continents. Given the...

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Gee, some of the shops around town are like hothouses

You can tell summer is one the way, outside my window the lovely green grasses of a week ago have given way to a yellow colored grass that I’m sure will be brown next week. The heat seems to be heading...

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Camera’s overheating in the Spanish sun, or my head overheating…

An interesting thing happened yesterday, something I’ve never had happen to me before. I was wandering around Ronda, I had a goal, back down to the bottom of the Tajo Gorge to take photos of the...

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I might get myself a Nokia N97

After my last post about wanting to get a smartphone that can handle taking photos, give me access to email and browsing, and even play the role of a mini computer so I can write while away from home I...

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A new type of coffee machine

I had an interesting experience this morning, coffee from a machine, but an unusual machine, one that does everything for you. All I had to do was put in my 60c and press a button, a minute later I...

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Ask a search engine a question?

One of the most interesting discoveries I made recently is a new website dedicated to answering the question Why Does…? It seems like a really simple concept yet most websites I’ve ever come across...

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Cosmic rays on the increase

Well well, it seems humanity is in desperate need of sunscreen, and the higher the factor the better. Even if you’re in the far north of Siberia it would still be worth buying a bottle to squish on all...

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2 Billion Earth Like Planets?

According to NASA calculations gleaned from their findings using the Kepler telescope there could be as many as 2 billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy, and some of them might be quite...

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Everything is Connected

This is a fascinating video with a fairly easy to understand explanation of an aspect of quantum physics showing that everything is connected. Everything.

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Microsoft’s new Outlook.com, Game Changer?

In light of the recent switch to Yahoo for Marissa Mayer, I found yesterday’s announcement by Microsoft that they are relaunching Hotmail as Outlook very intriguing. By the way, Outlook email addresses...

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Tesla Open Sources their Patents

In an inspired move by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, the company will no longer use patents to protect their trade secrets, and will actually let any automaker use their existing patents to drive...

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Is a Warp Drive Possible?

Faster than light travel has been the dream of science fiction writers and Hollywood producers since at least the 1920s, but sadly, Einstein and others made it impossible with laws of physics that said...

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What is a zettabyte?

Recently I read an article about how many gigabytes would be needed to store an entire human in digital form, and it’s a lot. Several zettabytes. So, what is a zettabyte? Well, our DNA in a single cell...

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