[iframe: src=”http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=uwbantennacom-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=B000056H2H” frameborder=”0″ width=”120px” height=”240px” scrolling=”no”] The Big Country (1958) Drama/Romance/Western 165 min. Dir: William Wyler Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford Blurb: An eastern sea captain (Peck) navigates an independent course in a range war involving the father (Bickford) of his fiancee […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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The 313th Regiment Objective is the high ground west and northwest of Valognes, on the road to Cherbourg. Paul Farnum’s First Battalion forms the left of the 313th’s advance, the Third Battalion is on the right, with the Second Battalion in reserve. Support provided by artillery fires from the 314th, […]
From the “everything old is new again” department comes Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers. Standage tells the story (familiar to students of electromagnetic history) of the development of the telegraph. Starting with the famous 1746 experiment of Jean-Antoine […]
Today, 18 June 1944, the 9th Division broke through German resistance to the west and reaches the coast at Barneville. This completes the immediate strategic goal of cutting off Cherbourg from reinforcement. The Allied plan is for the 79th to relieve the 90th Division. Then the 79th Division will drive […]
Here’s a selection of some of the most interesting features we’ve seen on the Internet this week: Physicist Frank Tipler observes that a couple of the most prominent physicists – including Einstein and Feynman – owe their success not so much to raw intelligence or “brightness,” but rather to an […]
Last month, I discussed the curious case of the recycled glass that wasn’t. It seems the Huntsville City Council let a contract out to Allied Waste, paying them $2.3M per year to run the City’s recycling program. Recyclers painstakingly washed and cleaned their glass and made special trips to lovingly […]
The 313th Regiment was alerted today, 16 June 1944, for a possible move to meet a German counterattack, with an alternative mission to take over a large hill in the area of the 82nd to the south. Orders did not arrive.
An amazing infographic on incredible range of conditions at various altitudes, from the highest jet liners to the deepest ocean trenches.
One of the pioneers in ultra-wideband (UWB) real-time location systems (RTLS) is Æther Wire and Location, Inc. In the Æther Wire approach, an antenna differentiates current pulses so as to yield equal and opposite impulses time-spaced according to the duration of the current impulse. This produces a time varying series […]
Most of the remaining motor equipment came ashore today, was de-waterproofed, and joined their respective units. The 313th regiment is now nearly complete, lacking only 500 men, a field kitchen, and some equipment left behind in England.
Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington discusses his disillusionment with politicians who seem determined to “help” high-tech entrepreneurship in ways virtually certain to hurt instead: Silicon Valley has fueled much of the growth in our economy over the last few decades and has created amazing (and highly profitable) companies that are […]
I’m taking a moment this morning to share some good news from my Q-Track colleagues. Q-Track’s Dosimulation™ System was the focus of the “Nuclear Training Process Award” bestowed by the Nuclear Energy Institute. Dosimulation™ Systems provide realistic radiation training for routine maintenance tasks to be performed within nuclear power facility […]
Today, 14 June 1944, the 79th Infantry Division and the 313th Infantry Regiment land on Utah beach, beginning about 4 p.m. The beach has been cleared of enemy opposition, however sounds of enemy shelling and bombing echo in the distance. The units start inland along the main road towards Sébeville, […]
A quick two minute satirical video to help you understand the European economic crisis: deadpan and utterly hilarious! Hat tip: Devil’s Knife.
“Static, like the poor, will always be with us,” radio engineer John Carson famously quipped in the 1920s. The crackles, pops, and hiss on the AM radio band were thought to be an inevitable part of radio technology. Then along came Edwin Howard Armstrong who invented wideband frequency modulation or […]
The Air Force launched a satellite with hyperspectral imaging capabilities this weekend, according to Popular Science. Hat Tip: Glenn Reynolds.
For the last few days the troops have remained in the marshaling area, changing money into francs and making other last minute preparations. Today, the 313th was trucked to the port of embarkation. Tomorrow, the 79th lands on Utah Beach. Here’s the situation they will find.
[iframe: src=”http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=uwbantennacom-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=B00371QQ2U” frameborder=”0″ width=”120px” height=”240px” scrolling=”no”] Apollo 13 (1995) Drama 140 min. Dir: Ron Howard Stars: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris Blurb: Stranded between the Earth and the Moon in a crippled spaceship, three astronauts (Hanks, Bacon, Paxton) and their ground crew (Sinise, Harris) must […]
A few “Quick Picks” – highlights from the week past worth passing on… Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds on the pending collapse of the higher education bubble. And Eight Reasons College Tuition is the Next Bubble to Burst. The “stars fell on” Alabama May 18, and now NASA’s looking for the meteorite. […]
Consulting Engineer, Stephen J. Crowley, P.E., provides an informative bi-monthly survey of experimental license applications before the FCC. Here are a half dozen highlights from recent updates:
On 10 June 1944, the 313th Infantry Regiment entrained for Plymouth, England, about 100 miles away. Their destination is Crown Hill Camp, a marshaling area for troops scheduled for shipment across the English Channel. On arrival, a message awaits them from Major General Wyche, in command of the 79th Infantry […]
Last week, I shared a photo (right) with my Facebook friends of my “guest lecture” to my daughters’ kindergarten class. I had a request for more information, and since I had already written out my lecture plan, I thought it would be fun to share what I taught. In addition, […]
Roy Spenser offers a climate model based on natural forcings from the the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO), and the the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) (a measure of El Nino and La Nina activity). The correlation he obtains to the post 1975 warming is truly remarkable. What […]
This article originally appeared in Atlantis Vol. 3, #3, pp. 36-42 (Jun.-Jul. 1995). Copyright © 1995-1996 Hans Schantz In Part I, I showed that non-objective philosophy had thoroughly permeated physics in Weimar Germany during the post World War I years, even before the discovery of quantum mechanics. Many physicists believed […]