Tuesday 31 July 2012
China announces plans for 2013 Moon landing
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Apollo lunar flags still standing
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Dynetics in negotions with NASA over using Apollo F1 engines for heavy lift
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Chimera Energy develops fracking technique that uses no water
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Honda uses Asimo technology to get the elderly on their feet
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Lockheed Martin reveals glimpse of Sea Ghost UAV
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Monday 30 July 2012
U.S. soldiers wired to record blast effects
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Successful launch of NASA's Degradation Free Spectrometers
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Sunday 29 July 2012
Monkeys' brains controlled using light
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Water supplement for bees is claimed to prevent Colony Collapse Disorder
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The ISS gets an aquarium
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Robot aids surgeons in catheter procedures, helps avoid radiation
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Saturday 28 July 2012
FITSAT-1 satellite scheduled to write Morse code in the sky
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Friday 27 July 2012
Engineering students build robot capable of creating theoretically infinite WiFi network
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Thursday 26 July 2012
DARPA awards contract to create "smart suit" to improve soldiers' endurance
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iRobot introduces telepresence doctor
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Jet-fuel powered Cessna flies cheaper and greener
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HemoGlobe device works with a smartphone to detect anemia
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Wednesday 25 July 2012
NASA's first new spacesuit in 20 years is its own airlock
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UCLA produces transparent solar cells that harness infrared light
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Tuesday 24 July 2012
U.S. Army to test female-specific body armor
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Monday 23 July 2012
NASA tests IRVE-3 inflatable heat shield in hypersonic flight
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Sunday 22 July 2012
Raytheon developing missile-ramming Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle
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Wednesday 18 July 2012
VARIES project proposes antimatter starship mission
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Tuesday 17 July 2012
Inexpensive device could allow the disabled to control computers with their eyes
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Sunday 15 July 2012
New catalyst could replace platinum to bring down the cost of microbial fuel cells
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Thursday 12 July 2012
Wednesday 11 July 2012
DARPA crowdsourcing tank design to speed up heavy weapons development
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Monday 9 July 2012
Sunday 8 July 2012
Saturday 7 July 2012
Thursday 5 July 2012
Coming to the crossroads
You may have noticed that posts have been a bit sparse lately on Ephemeral Isle and non-exist on its sister blogs. That's for a number of reasons. I've been very busy with clients and deadlines, I had to deal with a medical scare that turned out to be a false alarm and my liver isn't packing up after all, but the biggest reason is that both my wife and I are undergoing some major career shifts that will completely change our routines for at least the next year. It's a sound plan and will put us on a much better footing, but it also means making some sacrifices and hard choices.
I've been running EI since 2004 and since then I've started three other blogs. They've been great fun and I love doing them, but they were never meant to be a hobby. They were intended to attract traffic to Tales of Future Past and my freelance writing business with the side benefit of generating some advertising revenue. In other words, it's a business. Unfortunately, it hasn't created either the revenue nor traffic nor demonstration of growth to justify as much effort as I've put into them. In other other words, I can't justify the investment. Therefore, I've had to do some serious thinking and I've concluded that blogs are going to have to take a backseat to my other endeavours until the financial situation improves drastically.
That doesn't mean that I'm quitting. It does mean, however, that I'm going to be cutting back considerably. The other blogs will be only occasional affairs with postings made when time and suitable material collide. As to EI, I'll still do the video features, so there'll always be something here, but the four posts a day routine will fall back to posting what I think is the most interesting or important as time permits on an irregular basis.
Thanks to all my regular readers, thanks for your support and please subscribe to the RSS feed so you won't miss what does come up.
Ta for now.
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Chez Szondy
Wednesday 4 July 2012
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