I be learnin' and havin' fun
If you like trivia and just plain stuffing the brain with lotsa facts... It's on the Mental Floss magazine site and is a library of cool stuff. Just stumbled across the site in my efforts to come up with something fun for this blog, and now I'm hooked! For instance did you know William Lear, who of course came up with the Learjet, also invented the 8-track? Or how about during WWII when inventive soldiers were able to make radios out of a razor blade, a pencil and a paper tube (you gotta read this one for yourself -- American ingeniuity in action!). Or did you know that James Doohan (Scotty in THE Star Trek) was missing a finger after being injured in WWII? Okay, so there is tons more stuff there so browse away!
- posted by Paula Porter @ 12:40 PM

 
Columbia accident report released
And you can download the entire report (248 pages in pdf format) on CNN and other sites...

The number reason for the accident (outside of the physical reason of the chunk of foam breaking off and hitting the left wing)- not enough checks and balances and no independent safety program. Recommendations include adding a safety program and pump up building a new orbiter that can take off and land independently.
- posted by Paula Porter @ 11:00 AM