It’s Christmas, or nearly so. My house is filled with the holiday cheer of new lighting rigs and fudge (that is the extent of our holiday cheer), and the news is full of science and radness, from codebreaker reunions to bionic arms. Onward to radness!
Getting the band back together
A group of women who broke nazi codes on Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, were reunited this week after an old (and secret) photograph of their team surfaced in the news. They did not explain that they are badasses and heroines, but they clearly are. Read more in the Telegraph.
We have the technology
A double arm amputee is able to pick things up for the first time in forty years because of his new bionic arms. They’re still in the early stages, and he doesn’t have full range of motion by a long shot, but the next stage of the test is having him go home and use them in real life. Best of luck to Les Baugh, the Million dollar man.
This is interesting. Lando
HAVOC. Credit: NASA Langley Research Cente
Lando’s not a planet, he’s a man. A man who lives in a floating city like the ones NASA is hypothesizing would be the best way to put people on Venus. Apparently easier than launching a crewed mission to Mars, and would gather information without humans having to set foot on the surface of Venus (where they would die in about ten different ways).
Tea, Earl Grey, hot
In other space news, NASA emailed a wrench to the International Space Station, where it was 3d printed and used. First time in history. Yep. That is all.
Hide your wallet for the holidays
The Steam Holiday Sale is on, which means dirt cheap PC games for all. There’s some pretty nice indie games you can vote for to go on sale, and a lot of other great stuff. Just finished Lord of the Rings – Shadows of Mordor. Highly recommend. Also, great gifts for your internet friends.
A poledancing man plays holiday songs on the clarinet
Yep. No joke. Christmas one embedded below.
See you in the new year!
The guide is bright and clear, without the further worthless details
or else. The language is both brilliant and vibrant, so the more
I see, the longer I do like it!
Why viewers still make use of to read news papers when in this technological globe all is existing on net?