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• Changes in the eruption at Eyjafjallajökull?
  National Geographic film crew near Eyjafjallajökull, April 18, 2010. UPDATE 1PM EDT 4/19/2010: I can almost categorically say that Hekla is NOT erupting, contrary to Twitter or the brief banner on MSNBC. See my comment below (#68). In what is sounding like a bit of a broken record, the eruption at Eyjafjallajökull is still going. However, we ...
  04.19.10

• Eyjafjallajökull eruption update for 4/17/2010
  The eruptive plume from Eyjafjallajökull taken Holsvelli webcam. Image courtesy of Mattias Larsson. Sorry to disappoint everyone visiting to blog while they sit at any number of airports around the world, but the eruption at Eyjafjallajökull appears to still be going strong. The Icelandic Met Office is heading up to the volcano to conduct a ...
  04.17.10

• Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues to wreak havoc across Europe
  The ash plume from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. To say that the Eyjafjallajökull eruption has become the most significant volcano-related news story of the year would be an understatement. There has been wall-to-wall coverage on every major media outlet, dissecting everything from the effect of ash on jets, to the effect of ash on people, ...
  04.16.10

• Threat of Icelandic ash closes airspace over Europe
  The ash from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption as it spreads over Europe on April 15, 2010. The newly-subglacial Eyjafjallajökull eruption of 2010 has now begun to be felt outside of Iceland. The ash being thrown into the atmosphere from this explosive phase of the eruption has prompted officials in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway to close ...
  04.15.10

• Subglacial eruption underway at Eyjafjallajökull-Fimmvörduháls in Iceland
  The steam and ash plume from the Eyjafjallajökull subglacial eruption that started early morning, April 14, 2010. Well, after the brief respite when there was speculation Eyjafjallajökull-Fimmvörduháls eruption might be over, we now know what was going on. After the original fissures ceased activity, the magma found a new route to the surface, this time underneath ...
  04.14.10

• Ford Goes Back to the Future With Focus EV
  Electricity really is the ideal form of propulsion for the automobile because it is clean and quiet. They knew this at the turn of the century, but the problem was batteries and range -- that was the main concern back then and it is the main concern people have now. Most of the major automakers, from ...
  03.30.10

• Ford Goes Back to the Future With Focus EV
  Electricity really is the ideal form of propulsion for the automobile because it is clean and quiet. They knew this at the turn of the century, but the problem was batteries and range -- that was the main concern back then and it is the main concern people have now. Most of the major automakers, from ...
  03.30.10

• Ford Goes Back to the Future With Focus EV
  Electricity really is the ideal form of propulsion for the automobile because it is clean and quiet. They knew this at the turn of the century, but the problem was batteries and range -- that was the main concern back then and it is the main concern people have now. Most of the major automakers, from ...
  03.30.10

• The 2010 fissure eruption at Eyjafjallajokull
  The fissure vent eruption on Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland on March 21, 2010. The big news this morning is the eruption that started last night at Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, producing a 1-km fissure vent. The pictures and videos I've seen so far have been quite impressive, with the classic look of a "curtain of fire", where basaltic ...
  03.21.10

• MotoCzysz Puts the Sizzle in Electric Motorcycles
  We are in the midst of an electric motorcycle revolution, and nowhere is that more obvious than on the racetrack. The new technology is not about tweaking the status quo. It¿s about shattering it. And that¿s just what Michael Czysz plans to do at the TT Zero motorcycle race. The head guy at MotoCzysz -- that's ...
  03.10.10

• MotoCzysz Puts the Sizzle in Electric Motorcycles
  We are in the midst of an electric motorcycle revolution, and nowhere is that more obvious than on the racetrack. The new technology is not about tweaking the status quo. It¿s about shattering it. And that¿s just what Michael Czysz plans to do at the TT Zero motorcycle race. The head guy at MotoCzysz -- that's ...
  03.10.10

• March 3, 2005: Fossett Circuits Globe Alone, All in One Go
  2005: Steve Fossett completes the first nonstop, unrefueled, solo airplane flight around the world. Fossett -- who enjoyed well-earned reputations as a sailor, aviator and adventurer -- set 116 records in five sports. As of June 2007, 60 of them still stood. Among his accomplishments, Fossett set circumnavigation records in a balloon (2002) and a catamaran ...
  03.03.10

• Beautiful Unpronounceable Bike Returns to Electric Motorcycle Race
  The TT Zero has lined up its first official entrant for the electric motorcycle race on the Isle of Man, and it's a doozy -- MotoCzysz. Michael Czysz and his crew were the talk of last year's race, which was known as the TTXGP before the Isle of Man told race founder Azhar Hussain to ...
  02.23.10

• Beautiful Unpronounceable Bike Returns to Electric Motorcycle Race
  The TT Zero has lined up its first official entrant for the electric motorcycle race on the Isle of Man, and it's a doozy -- MotoCzysz. Michael Czysz and his crew were the talk of last year's race, which was known as the TTXGP before the Isle of Man told race founder Azhar Hussain to ...
  02.23.10

• U.S. Team Hopes to Bring Steam Car Record Home
  A land speed record all but forgotten for nearly a century is suddenly the focus of some hot competition, and pressure is mounting to set a new benchmark. Six months after the British Steam Car Team shattered the record for steam powered vehicles, an American team has emerged with the goal of beating 148.308 mph and ...
  02.23.10

• U.S. Team Hopes to Bring Steam Car Record Home
  A land speed record all but forgotten for nearly a century is suddenly the focus of some hot competition, and pressure is mounting to set a new benchmark. Six months after the British Steam Car Team shattered the record for steam powered vehicles, an American team has emerged with the goal of beating 148.308 mph and ...
  02.23.10

• Feb. 18, 1838: Physicist Machs His Entrance
  1838: Ernst Mach is born in the small town of Chirlitz, then part of the Austrian Empire. The scientist would go on to conduct research in many fields, but his most memorable work in aerodynamics would be the understanding of supersonic speeds, leading to the unit of measurement that bears his name. Mach explained his ...
  02.18.10

• Friday Flotsam: Soufriere Hills' big bang and submarine volcanism from space
  Two impressive eruptions going on right now: Soufriere Hills erupting on February 11, 2010. Image courtesy of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory. Soufriere Hills just keeps on raising the bar during its new eruptive period. The volcano on Montserrat in the West Indies produced a 15 km / ~45 000 foot ash plume as the summit dome partially ...
  02.11.10

• Feb. 9, 1969: Behemoth Aloft
  1969: Boeing successfully tests its new 747 jumbo jet. As commercial air travel boomed in the 1960s, the need for a plane capable of handling more passengers than Boeing's reliable old warhorse, the 707, became obvious. But the technology of jet-engine design was changing rapidly, too, and the feeling was that any new aircraft built using ...
  02.09.10

• Feb. 9, 1969: Behemoth Aloft
  1969: Boeing successfully tests its new 747 jumbo jet. As commercial air travel boomed in the 1960s, the need for a plane capable of handling more passengers than Boeing's reliable old warhorse, the 707, became obvious. But the technology of jet-engine design was changing rapidly, too, and the feeling was that any new aircraft built using ...
  02.09.10

• How KVERT got its groove back (temporarily)
  Shiveluch in Kamchatka in an undated photo. Just a quick note, but I got this email overnight regarding the status of KVERT, the Kamchatka-Kuril Island volcano monitoring body in Russia. Scientists of KVERT Project return to the full KVERT operations (the information ensuring of air services for the results of daily analysis and evaluation of activity of Kamchatka and ...
  02.05.10

• More Suds In Electric Motorcycle Racing Soap Opera
  Electric motorcycle racing is returning to the Isle of Man again this year, but without the guy who brought it there in the first place. It's the latest installment in a soap opera that threatens to overshadow the budding sport. Azhar Hussain and the TTXGP have been booted from the Isle of Man TT, the venue ...
  01.29.10

• More Suds In Electric Motorcycle Racing Soap Opera
  Electric motorcycle racing is returning to the Isle of Man again this year, but without the guy who brought it there in the first place. It's the latest installment in a soap opera that threatens to overshadow the budding sport. Azhar Hussain and the TTXGP have been booted from the Isle of Man TT, the venue ...
  01.29.10

• Russia nixes Kamchatka and Kuril Island volcano monitoring
  Bezymianny in Kamchatka, one of the many volcanoes in eastern Russia that will no longer be monitored by KVERT. In some bad news for volcano watchers (and the general public, too), Russia has decided to stop funding KVERT (the Russian equivalent of the Alaska Volcano Observatory), the institute that monitors and researches volcanic eruptions on the ...
  01.28.10

• Jan. 6, 2000: Computer Glitch Fouls East Coast Air Traffic
  The computer just won't give up its old data and chokes on it. Sneakernet saves the day ... slowly.
  01.05.10

• Jay Leno Makes a Rendezvous Of His Own
  You'd have to be mad to try to remake Rendezvous, Claude Lelouche's high-speed dash through the streets of Paris at dawn. Rendezvous is a classic. A one-off. It is best left alone, as that remake The Run showed. But that's not to say you can't riff off it. Aside from being nine minutes of pure driving heaven, ...
  12.29.09

• Jay Leno Makes a Rendezvous Of His Own
  You'd have to be mad to try to remake Rendezvous, Claude Lelouche's high-speed dash through the streets of Paris at dawn. Rendezvous is a classic. A one-off. It is best left alone, as that remake The Run showed. But that's not to say you can't riff off it. Aside from being nine minutes of pure driving heaven, ...
  12.29.09