Facts, ideas, and images from the shoreline of science.
The 2026 American Solar Challenge road race ran from 25 July to 1 August. The route started at the University of Minnesota and finished at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo, TX (partly following Route 66, which turns 100 years … Continue reading →
Solar car racing is a High School or University engineering activity that is both challenging and rewarding. Students design, build, and race solar-powered cars. There are 4 major solar car racing events for 2026. Apart from the US high school … Continue reading →
Solar car racing is a High School or University engineering activity that is both challenging and rewarding. Students design, build, and race solar-powered cars. There are 4 major solar car racing events for 2026. Apart from the US high school … Continue reading →
Solar car racing is a High School or University engineering activity that is both challenging and rewarding. Students design, build, and race solar-powered cars. There are 4 major solar car racing events for 2026 (not including Japanese events, which I … Continue reading →
On Easter, Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, this was on the Sunday after the Jewish Passover (the full moon after the Spring equinox), in what must have been either the year 30 AD or … Continue reading →
A Pi Day reminder: ADV Cape Otway, a Cape-class patrol boat (photo: Calistemon) Building 314 at Curtin University, Western Australia (photo: Orderinchaos) Bus in London (Public Domain) Road in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan (photo: Aimaimyi)
Pi Day is here yet again (3/14 as a US date). The number π is, of course, 3.14159265… Archimedes, in his Measurement of a Circle, proved that 310/71 < π < 31/7, although he did not use the symbol π, … Continue reading →
FSGP & American Solar Challenge This event combines a track race from 21 to 23 July at Brainerd International Raceway (the FSGP), with a road race from 25 July to 1 August (the ASC itself). The route will start in … Continue reading →
Twente’s 2015 car Red One (my photo) Solar Team Twente (team #21) from the Netherlands are solar racing legends. They came second in the World Solar Challenge in 2015, in 2023, and in 2025 (see chart at bottom). They also … Continue reading →
The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis have an interesting range of intelligent creatures. As with Lewis’s Space Trilogy, this highlights the importance of looking beyond superficial differences in appearance. In Christian terminology, all of these intelligent creatures are created in … Continue reading →