Monday, October 19, 2009 | by nathan

Weekly Reader – 19 October 2009 (NERD EDITION)

NERD EDITION

32 Extrasolar Planets
I think the hunt for extrasolar planets is one of the coolest things going on in science right now. While I don’t expect it to yield contact with an alien civilization, I do think it’s fascinating to see the huge variety of star systems that are out there and to speculate on what they might be like.

Flexible OLED
A video of a new screen being developed by Samsung that brings the idea of digital paper into the real world. Pretty soon we’ll be folding these things up in our back pockets; I’m looking forward to this development, but I know I’m going to be constantly losing my foldy-uppy-phone-Kindle-digital-inky-thingy. QUICK! We need a kicky name for this bad boy that we can patent!

Not That Asteroid But This Other One
Because a huge part of me is still six years old, I am super bummed that we don’t have dinosaurs walking around. One scientists is claiming that, nope, that one crater in Mexico that we thought was the impact site but this other one in the Indian Ocean is the place where it all started going pear-shaped for Barney and Friends. Either way – bummer.

Moleskinerie
And because I am a huge nerd about stationery, enjoy Moleskinerie, an entire blog dedicated to everyone’s favorite pocket-sized notebook.