Posted on 17 February 2011 at 07:17h

Realising I was interested in applying physics to unusual situations a friend sent me a link to wired. The specific article was about the relationship between the frequency of a dogs drying shake and the size of the dog, interesting stuff. Further reading revealed several physics blogs including dot.physics where Rhett Allain investigates some unusual phenomena from floating mac books to spherical cows. Lots of interesting stuff and a good source for EE material. However if you are looking for EE material beware, the articles on this site don't just raise questions but also attempt to answer them, so a student might get a bit too much information. This can be ok, its good to compare ones own findings with those of others but a simple paraphrasing/ extension of one of these articles would not be good.

Another one of the articles I was pointed to was about comet Tempel 1 that was photographed by the passing Stardust Next probe on Monday. The pictures are quite something but I was a bit disturbed to read that in 2005 an 800 pound metal slug was fired at it.

From the home page of the wired site my attention was grabbed by the headline "Giant solar blast headed for earth". Lets hope for clear skies and a we might be in for a some spectacular Northern lights. I'll be out with my camera (mobile phone) to take some poor quality pictures.