Tag Archives: technology

Remembering Sagan

Posted on November 10, 2013 by motleydragon

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: 2 Posted on November 12, 2012 by motleydragon I wrote about Carl Sagan last year as well.  Here are the links. Michael Shermer and his colleagues are keeping Sagan’s valuable work alive. The website and the … Continue reading →

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A Universe Not Made for Us

Posted on November 9, 2013 by motleydragon

Carl Sagan was born on November 9, 1934.  This year would have marked only his 79th birthday. After suffering from a kind of leukemia, and receiving three bone marrow transplants, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62.  An … Continue reading →

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Seeing the unseen

Posted on September 29, 2013 by motleydragon

Slow-motion photography What makes a camera slo-mo? According to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), high-speed photography is defined as a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater.  For the Phantom, that is child’s play, … Continue reading →

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Costa Concordia

Posted on September 18, 2013 by motleydragon

They did it!  And both the time-lapse photographs and the technical statistics (from Wikipedia) demonstrate what an awesome challenge it was. With mechanical challenges is it “just” a matter of increasing the scale of application of already well-known techniques. A … Continue reading →

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Radio Drama!

Posted on August 25, 2013 by motleydragon

I was twelve when my family bought their first TV. It was black and white, and we got four channels. Twenty-four hour television broadcasting, all day news and full-length feature films were not available..  A kids’ film…Tarzan or a western… … Continue reading →

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Stargazing

Posted on August 13, 2013 by motleydragon

We were at home when the lights went out ten years ago.  From “the brow” above Hamilton we can see a great distance … on a clear day as far as the Toronto CN tower.  We did not know what … Continue reading →

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Nagasaki

Posted on August 9, 2013 by motleydragon

The BBC provides an online archive of its broadcasts and posts them chronologically on a daily basis.  To-day is the anniversary of the SECOND atomic bomb used against a Japanese city, three days after Hiroshima. Reading the BBC script, with … Continue reading →

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Blow that Whistle

Posted on August 8, 2013 by motleydragon

The story of Edward Snowden’s effective banishment and the imprisonment of Bradley Manning are just the two most recent examples of what happens to “whistle blowers” in our so-called age of information and freedom of speech. I was pleased to … Continue reading →

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Music as a Pattern

Posted on July 25, 2013 by motleydragon

Curmudgeon Bludgeon commented on yesterday’s blog, Dynamics of the Subway! I feel like I have just received a gift that I will return to over and over.  I hope my fiber artist friends discover these, too… the graphic art ideas … Continue reading →

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Dynamics of the Subway

Posted on July 24, 2013 by motleydragon

My husband and I attended a seniors’ meeting and luncheon this morning, a very nice group we attend together every month.  But the speaker was tedious and then we sang … The Happy Wanderer,   This Land is Your Land, … Continue reading →

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