The Roman Sacristan

Can't wait another second for 2009 to get here? Well, you'll have to. Yes, add an extra 1 to your countdown this year. The Intern...

Did you know that Santa Claus is a physicist? Well, a scientist at North Carolina State University has shown the science behind the seeming...

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a bioethical document addressing many of the current problems and trends in our pr...

I was bumping around teh internets, and got a bit of a status update of the LHC. They've been in a cooling down process, and have gotten...

Well, we're getting closer to the beginning of the big experiments at the LHC in Switzerland. They've apparently started testing be...

I know I've felt it. In my own realization, it seems like I have been less proficient at retaining the information itself, and more foc...

Just found out that Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is now live. Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Imagine something like GoogleEarth ...

The TED Talks are always interesting and here's one that looks promising. At first this is odd for several reasons: First, I am actuall...

I just took this test: Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? When I missed the 2nd question, I was actually nervous I would end up looking like ...

Sorry to be a bit quiet this week. Finally! After 7 years, I have a new computer. The timing was a bit difficult with the holiday coming u...

I once bought the DVD version of UT2004 to learn how to make virtual environments to design churches and monasteries. However, lack of intu...

"What's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?" A BBC ...

I really enjoy nuclear physics and at one time wanted to get into particle physics. In fact, before I became a theology major, I was on the...

For some reason the Blendtech videos have been pretty popular on youtube. I admit that the blenders are pretty amazing in their power to bl...

I've blogged about the highly fascinating informational video "Shift Happens" before (it's certainly worth watching again)...

click to embiggen Just found a very cool site that gives a satellite image of the world's current weather and sunlight. The picture it ...

You might remember the airplane engine tests I had a while back. Here's a real life reason why they test engines by shooting birds int...

Wow, this is so geeky and so cool. It's pretty interesting what computer processing has become. It's kind of strange that we have ...