Science | Joseph Halden

Public Forum on Fusion Energy

Tomorrow the Alberta/Canada Fusion Technology Alliance is hosting a public forum on fusion energy, 9am-4pm at U of A. Fusion energy is extremely clean, with bountiful fuel that releases a...

Category: Event, Science Tags: energy, engineering, forum, fusion, future, Science, ualberta

Can You Move a Car the Way Fred Flintstone Does?

The granite-wheeled steamless steamroller pushed around by Fred Conan-quads Flintstone is number three on TIME magazine’s list of the best fictional vehicles of all time. It’s recognizable enough that it was...

Category: Art, Blog, Event, Science, What If, Writing Tags: animation, apatosaurus, automobile, barney, betty, bicycle, bike, brontosaurus, calculation, car, cartoon, deduction, dinosaur, dinosaurs, eject, energy, family, fart, farting, flatulence, Flintstones, force, Fred, golden gate bridge, granite, impulse, indigestion, john goodman, kinetic energy, mass, modern, momentum, movement, movies, physics, rubble, san francisco, sfo, smelly, snorkasaur, stinky, stone-age, transportation, vehicle, what if, wilma, work, yabba dabba doo

How Does Carbon Dating Work?

It starts with a look, a passing glance between strangers: one blazing through the cosmos at the speed of light, the other drifting slowly with its head in the clouds. The...

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How does Princess Peach float?

One of video games’ most famed princesses, Princess Peach has been kidnapped at least 12 times and has likely developed Stockholm syndrome along with bipolar disorder (based on her emotion-focused/mood-swing attacks...

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Fusion Milestone Reached

I spent a good chunk of my Master’s research on fusion, so I have to share this. Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab. Wow. This is AWESOME news. Why? At...

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What if Dora’s Map Were Real?

As an explorer, beloved Dora is often found in the business of travel, and even more often, she is going where no one has gone before. Well, at least she’s going...

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Demonizing Demons: Reasons Why “The Dark Knight Rises” Sucks

So it’s been a little while since the movie came out, and by far I’m not the first person to say it, and I won’t be the last. The latest Batman...

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Open Up Your Eyelids if You’re Blind to the Science

This Friday I went to a talk by the creator of General Fusion, a Canadian company that is researching an approach to fusion (the reaction inside the sun for a source...

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