The Hundred Million Mile Pipe Organ

Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun's atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6574059.stm

Sound and Video: http://www.robertus.staff.shef.ac.uk/movies/uksp-nam2007/

Play Shakespeare

The ultimate free Shakespeare resource

http://www.playshakespeare.com/

Replicating Rapid-prototyper

An extruded extruder extrudes... The RepRap plastic extruder on the left was made by the RepRap plastic extruder on the right. It is shown here in Vik Olliver's prototype RepRap machine starting to extrude for itself. More info in the blog entry and videos section.

http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome

Interesting Links

http://dolennididdorol.blogspot.com/

Interesting Links

http://dolennididdorol.blogspot.com/

Voynich Manuscript

Good scans of the Voynich Manuscript are hard to find. These are from the Yale Library (download instructions), though unfortunately in a proprietary graphics format, which I converted to jpeg.

The images that appear black failed in the Flickr thumbnail conversion process - the original-size images are viewable.

Being 500 years old, the Voynich Manuscript is not under copyright.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3e/sets/72157600089509882/

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

The Micro Windmill Mobile Charger

This tiny collection of tubines converts wasted wind into useful talk time with blades just 5-centimeters long, and is also said to be capable of charging laptops, portable game consoles, and DAPs

http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/21/the-micro-windmill-mobile-charger/

Roads the biggest killer of teens

Road traffic accidents, not Aids, cancer or any other disease, are the biggest killer of young people worldwide, experts warn.

"Road traffic crashes are not 'accidents'. We need to challenge the notion that they are unavoidable" Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6572283.stm

UK tests Moon lander technology

British engineers are designing a Moon landing mission that would also test key technologies to take to Mars.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6573729.stm

Number Spiral

Number spirals are very simple. To make one, we just write the non-negative integers on a ribbon and roll it up with zero at the center. The trick is to arrange the spiral so all the perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16, etc.) line up in a row on the right side.

http://www.numberspiral.com/index.html