Science
These should be interesting, available online if you cant attend. ROYAL SOCIETY - RADIO NZ E=mc² LECTURE SERIES May 4 - June 15. This public lecture series is being hosted in Auckland, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wangarei, Timaru, Nelson and Wellington. Each lecture will be broadcast on National Radio at 2.
Science
This is not an advertisement GulliGo - Super-Homeopathic Gullibility Remedy Are you tired of being taken for a ride by every huckster with an infomercial or a web site? Are you embarrassed about purchasing every nostrum on the natural remedies shelf? Are you sick of being a sucker? Then we&
TypePad have released a Web Publishing Wizard which enables you to publish batches of photos from Windows XP file explorer direct into a TypePad photo album. Makes publishing multiple photos much easier.
Aviation
John Ewing has written a humorous story of his journey to become a pilot from novice to solo and illustrated it with wonderful cartoons. It also covers all the basic principles of flight. AVweb have a few chapters online and you can buy the book from John’s own website
Cycling
This is neat, a bamboo mountain bike! Bamboo MTB Frame - Brano Meres This is my second home-made frame. This time I used bamboo instead of carbon composite tubes…
Aviation
Searching my feeds for Fernando Alonso found this article. I was expecting an F1 story but this Fernando Alonso, test pilot and engineer, will be looking after the Airbus A380 Super-Jumbo. Size does matter The biggest passenger plane ever is taking to the sky. John Carlin tells the inside
Automobile
Michael Schumacher commenting on the San Marino Grand Prix… Schumacher said. "But he didn't even allow the most minimal chance. He didn't make any errors. It was impossible to pass him." Full article: ThatsRacin.com | 04/28/2005 | Spain's Fernando Alonso saving
Books
We use measurement everyday but have you given much thought how these definitions originated?I’m currently reading The Measure of All Things about Delambre and Mechain's meridian expedition of 1792-1799 to calculate the length of the metre. It’s a great read as combines scientific discovery,
Cool Hardware
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is on its long-awaited maiden flight. www.Airbus.com ~ Seeing is believing has video, photos and reports from the flightdeck. BBC NEWS | Business | A380 takes off for maiden flight and its a successful first flight! BBC NEWS | The European
Aviation
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is on its long-awaited maiden flight. Will this aircraft have the same impact on the aviation world as the Boeing 747? The 747 was a “bet the company” risk for Boeing that paid off and gave them dominance of
Automobile
Holden V8 Supercars will be sponsored by Buick for the Shanghai race. Buick racing? - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com
Automobile
Ouch, Want to buy a cheap Monaro, GTO… Train full of 2005 GTOs derails - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com
