Image Display
august 2010
On August 1, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more. This extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption. Different colors in the image represent different gas temperatures.
astronomy
images
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august 2010
twig-persist - Project Hosting on Google Code
june 2010
Twig is an object persistence interface built on Google App Engine's low-level datastore which overcomes many of JDO-GAEs limitations including full support for inheritance, polymorphism and generic types. You can easily configure, modify or extend Twigs behaviour by implementing your own strategies or overriding extension points in pure Java code.
gae
md
Datastore
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june 2010
Michael Tomasky: A little bit more on accents, American this time | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
june 2010
I remember hearing on radio or the teevee many years ago that linguistic geographical ground zero of the US - the place, that is, where the accent is closest to "standard" American - is right around Steubenville. Ohio.
usa
linguistics
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june 2010
BBC News - Herschel space telescope pierces giant star bubble
may 2010
The unique capabilities of Herschel - it works in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre range (55 to 672 microns) - mean it can see physical processes that are beyond the vision of other telescopes.<br />
Hubble, for example, which senses visible and near-infrared light, is blind to the details in this picture.
astronomy
astrophysics
photography
imaging
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Hubble, for example, which senses visible and near-infrared light, is blind to the details in this picture.
may 2010
Is synaesthesia a high-level brain power? - life - 17 December 2009 - New Scientist
january 2010
THE word "synaesthesia" derives from the phrase "joining of the senses", but the phenomenon might not be the uncontrollable perceptual mishmash that this implies. Instead, the condition may be the result of a special ability in the "higher" brain areas used for language and attention.
neuroscience
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january 2010
Alex Shoumatoff on St. Paul's School | vanityfair.com
january 2010
One of America’s most prestigious boarding schools, St. Paul’s, has been hit by scandal after scandal over the past few years: financial improprieties, the ouster of its highly paid rector, a hazing investigation, a drowning in its new, $24 million fitness center, and allegations of sexual abuse by revered teachers. The author returns to the 2,000-acre Concord, New Hampshire, campus, to learn how hubris, stonewalling, and the information revolution divided—though never conquered—his alma mater.
from delicious
january 2010
Yapta: Track flight prices and check for airline refunds
january 2010
now connects with tripit
travel
web_app
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january 2010
"It's About Storytelling. It's About Humans Playing Humans."
december 2009
James Cameron and Peter Jackson on making films in the age of technology.
movies
technology
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december 2009
:: Blacklight
december 2009
Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a.k.a. “next-generation catalog”) especially optimized for heterogeneous collections. You can use it as a library catalog, as a front end for a digital repository, or as a single-search interface to aggregate digital content that would otherwise be siloed. (uses solr)
search
discovery
rails
ruby
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december 2009
Xtext
november 2009
Xtext is a framework for development of textual domain specific languages (DSLs). Just describe your own DSL using Xtext's simple EBNF grammar language and the generator will create a parser, an AST-meta model (implemented in EMF) as well as a full-featured Eclipse text editor from that.
from delicious
november 2009
Factors from common human bacteria may trigger multiple sclerosis
november 2009
Current research suggests that a common oral bacterium may exacerbate autoimmune disease. Multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease where the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, affects nearly 1 in 700 people in the United States. Patients with multiple sclerosis have a variety of neurological symptoms, including muscle weakness, difficulty in moving, and difficulty in speech.
huh
health
medical
science
research
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november 2009
ChangeDetection - Know when any web page changes
november 2009
ChangeDetection.com provides page change monitoring and notification services to internet users worldwide. Anyone can use our service to monitor any website page for changes. Just fill in the form below, we will create a change log for the page and alert you by email when we detect a change in the page text. We've been doing it since 1999. It's free.
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november 2009
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