The orange belonged to the lunch of a miner who died in 1891. The miner’s great-granddaughter is donating the orange to a museum.
Entries from October 2007
24 October 2007
Science Notes 2007
Behold, the latest issue of Science Notes, the online magazine published by the science writing program at Santa Cruz. Read about e. coli, organ transplants for pets, condors, why people say um and uh, and more. You can read my story about medical qigong, too.
6 October 2007
Turning a Sphere Inside Out
I won’t pretend to know what the Poincaré Conjecture’s about, but I think it has something to do with turning spheres inside out. Whatever the math is, I just think the animations are cool. The Berkeley Science Review interviews Stephen Smale, who did the proof for seven (and later five) dimensions and above. Go to [...]
5 October 2007
God in the Brain
Scientific American has an interesting story on researchers who are using neural imaging techniques like fMRI and EEGs to study so-called religious experiences. The prospect is that once people identify particular brain regions that are activated during religious/spiritual experiences, then scientists can artificially stimulate those regions, recreating that sense of oneness with God (or however [...]
