Cohenville » science http://www.cohenville.com/blog It's interesting to me Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:41:29 +0000 en hourly 1 The end of an era http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/04/12/the-end-of-an-era/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/04/12/the-end-of-an-era/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:35:46 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=250 The Space Shuttle program has come to an end.  NASA decided where to “store” each of the four shuttles – luckily for me one of them is going to Udvar-Havy.  Watch the 14 minute video on the space shuttle, narrated by William Shatner.

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/04/12/the-end-of-an-era/feed/ 0 Cracking the lottery code http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/10/cracking-the-lottery-code/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/10/cracking-the-lottery-code/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:46:06 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=216 Wired had a great article about a Canadian geological statistician who was able to crack the code on lottery scratch-off tickets.  After his analysis, he could get the winning tickets right 90% of the time.  Pretty amazing.

Read it here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/10/cracking-the-lottery-code/feed/ 0 Last Shuttle night lift off http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/02/08/last-shuttle-night-lift-off/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/02/08/last-shuttle-night-lift-off/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:53:31 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=141 The shuttle Endeavour lifted off this morning — it was the last night shuttle launch and there are only four missions left total. The imagery never ceases to amaze me.

Shuttle lift-off

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/02/08/last-shuttle-night-lift-off/feed/ 0 See the Universe http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2008/04/20/see-the-universe/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2008/04/20/see-the-universe/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:52:15 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2008/04/20/see-the-universe/ Do you use Google Maps?  How about Google Earth?  It’s fun and interesting to see landmarks around the globe from space.  But now you can take an astronomical view, looking into space – see stars, galaxies and more as Google has released Google Sky.

Source: Google Sky

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2008/04/20/see-the-universe/feed/ 0 Astronomy picture of the day http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/02/19/astronomy-picture-of-the-day/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/02/19/astronomy-picture-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:35:31 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/02/19/astronomy-picture-of-the-day/ Need a new background for your desktop? Or do you just enjoy star gazing? I never get tired of looking at pictures of galaxies, supernovas, and other astronomical phenomena. Now you can enjoy a cool new picture from NASA each day, with an good explanation of what you are looking at.

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