Technology Quarterly: Adaptor die Mar 8, 2009
IF THE father of electromagnetism, Michael Faraday, could be transported into the 21st century, he would no doubt be awestruck by the iPhone. After five hours of tapping its touch-screen to browse the internet, make calls, play games and determine his location via satellite-positioning, he might also find himself a little puzzled. (The Economist)
Missing Napoleon medal 'lost at sea' Mar 17, 2008
Davy did not hear of the award until years later, when he, his wife and scientific assistant Michael Faraday, the inventor of electro-magnetic induction, took a dangerous cross-Channel trip as the wars raged in 1813. He eventually received it from Napoleon's wife Marie-Louise. (iAfrica.com)
Powering Your Cell Phone Could Be a Walk in the Park Feb 9, 2008
Another effort underway to convert motion into energy relies on the law of induction, named after English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday, which holds that the movement of a conductor (such as a metal wire) through a magnetic field produces a voltage in that conductor proportional to the speed of movement. M2E Power, Inc., in Boise, Idaho, has developed a system of magnets and coils that, when moved, generates energy that can be used to power their host device. (Scientific American)
Lost Redux: Welcome, New People! (Please Don't Shoot the Losties) Feb 8, 2008
(Please Don't Shoot the Losties). Ask Kristin Please make sure you fill in every field. (E! Online)
* Valuing Arabic science Feb 4, 2008
Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics at the University of Surrey and last year's recipient of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize. This story has been viewed 417 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Arabic science 'prefigured Darwin and Newton' Jan 30, 2008
Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics at the University of Surrey; he is the 2007 recipient of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize and delivers the Faraday lecture at the Royal Society in London tonight. . (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
Talk Show Host Dr. Phil McGraw to Speak with Military Couples on Valentine's Day Video Calls Jan 22, 2008
TANDBERG, 1860 Michael Faraday Drive, Reston, VA 20190. TANDBERG, 1501 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 100E, Schaumburg, IL 60173. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Biography in 2008 Dec 29, 2007
In his first major book for a decade Holmes returns to his favourite Romantic period and charts the wide-eyed lives of such scientific pioneers as Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday. Expect plenty of sparks and funny smells. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Glowpoint to Participate in Holiday 'Freedom Calls' to the Troops Dec 4, 2007
TANDBERG, 1860 Michael Faraday Drive, Reston, VA 20190. . (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
In a parallel universe, this theory would make sense Dec 1, 2007
Jim Al-Khalili, professor of physics and of the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey, is this year's recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize for science communication. Advertiser links. (Guardian Unlimited)
Digital timelineExplore the rich history of the computer age Nov 15, 2007
Michael Faraday publishes work on semiconducters While conducting experiments on the effect of temperature on the electrical conductivity of silver sulphide English scientist Michael Faraday found that the material's conductivity increased with temperature. This effect is typical of semiconductors the material of choice for the chip industry. (BBC News -- Technology)
Future archiveA look back at 80 years of technology's cutting edge Sep 30, 2007
Named after the scientist and populist speaker Michael Faraday, the annual lecture series is organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, formerly IEE) ... Electricity - for which Michael Faraday himself is probably best known - has featured in one form or another in many of the annual lectures ... The expansion of the Faraday Lecture tour next year to make ideas even more widely accessible would have had the wholehearted approval of Michael Faraday himself. (BBC News -- UK)
Our Weird Obsession With Genealogy Jul 30, 2007
Michael Faraday could not have anticipated the rise of the electric guitar and its effects on our culture, nor did the inventors of the laser realize they had laid the ground for a thriving industry of tattoo removal. And it is safe to say that Watson and Crick could not have foreseen a day when an analysis of Oprah Winfrey's DNA would tell her that she was descended from the Kpelle people of the Liberian rainforest. (New Republic)
* Nuclear waste: a necessary risk Jul 30, 2007
Jim Al-Khalili is professor of physics and professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey, as well as this year's recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize for science communication. This story has been viewed 191 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nuclear waste is hardly a worry with climate threat Jul 26, 2007
He is this year's recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize for science communication. His TV series Atom starts tonight on BBC4. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Does tenure need to change? Jul 24, 2007
The Scientist : Does tenure need to change. The Daily: for The Scientist's daily e-mail. (The Scientist)
• Letters to the editor, March 11, 2007 Mar 14, 2007
All the real scientists, until the last few decades, reasoned that science was to understand God (Designer-Creator) and believed their work was discovering God in the universe - Nicolaus Coperinicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Rene' Descartes, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, William Thomson Kelvin, George Gabriel Planck, Wolfgang Pauli and Albert Einstein. Atheists absurdly try to claim Albert Einstein is one of their own because he... (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Whiskey: Welsh and Proud Mar 2, 2007
But they chose a newly devised method from a design team led by the University of Surrey's David Faraday, a direct descendant of the famous 19th century physicist Michael Faraday. The resulting distillate has a higher alcohol content--91%, vs. 80% for Scotch--that the firm says retains more barley flavor at the outset than its competitors. (BusinessWeek)
Rants: MP3, RFID and Big Hammers Jan 9, 2007
In the 1800s, Michael Faraday discovered EMF signals could be stopped cold if the transmitter or receiver was placed inside a metallic screen. There was nothing uniquely clever or complicated about the construction; pretty much anything worked. (Wired News)
