Noted Los Angeles food stylist Adam C. Pearson was settling into his seat aboard a Delta flight Saturday morning when the flight attendant tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to come to the front of the plane. His first thought? “I’m getting an upgrade!”
Not exactly.
It’s a river of people! Over 40,000 runners participated in the New York City Marathon last weekend. Thanks to time-lapse videography, you can watch most of them get started.
This is the desktop digital telescope that displays a magnified view on a computer monitor, so a roomful of young astronomers can simultaneously enjoy astral observation. A digital camera fits over a special eyepiece and connects to a computer’s USB port, enabling images or video of Orion, Ursa Major, or any celestial body seen through the telescope to be captured and saved.
The telescope has a 400mm focal length with four eyepieces (15X, 20X, 25X, and 35X) that can be changed simply by rotating the central turret. The telescope can be detached from the computer for traditional solo observation and the camera attaches to a separate stand to act as a web camera with 640×480 resolution.
This working Heron steam engine is propelled by the same pneumatic principles that powered Heron of Alexandria’s original steam turbine in the first century AD. A precursor to the jet engine, Heron’s steam turbine was the first of its kind to extract thermal energy from pressurized steam and convert it into rotary motion.
The desktop steam turbine is powered by an alcohol burner that heats a sphere boiler holding 2/3 oz. of water, evoking the metal cauldron that heated Heron’s original aeolipile. When steam is generated, it is expelled through two nozzles on the sphere pointing in opposite directions, generating thrust that rotates the sphere on its axis up to 2,500 rpm.
“I woke up out of sight of land … and I started paddling with the swells and I started seeing fins swimming around me and I thought, ‘I’m dead!’”, he said
“They turned out to be porpoises [and] they pushed me all the way to shore. I’m not kidding.”
Miguel Soto bought a sandwich at a deli and walked home. While on his way, he was shot twice. But Soto didn’t let that problem distract him from having his meal:
Police say a 25-year-old Connecticut man who was shot twice after buying a sandwich at a New Haven deli went home and ate his lunch before going to the hospital. Miguel Soto said he was leaving the deli Tuesday when he heard three gunshots. One bullet hit him in the left leg, another in the groin. Police said he went home and ate the sandwich before asking his father to take him to a hospital.
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