Crafting the Blue Marble : Elegant Figures : Blogs
november 2011 by nico.ash
The story behind the crafting of the blue marble image(s). Original was based on 43000 by 24000 , but new ones are 86000 by 43000 pixels.
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iphone
photography
process
science
earth
hugepicture
photo
space
geography
november 2011 by nico.ash
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
january 2011 by nico.ash
Prevents things to get dirty, accelerates plant growth, prevents bacterias from reproducing...
glass
materials
science
technology
january 2011 by nico.ash
Distributed Observatory
october 2010 by nico.ash
The Distributed Observatory aims to become the world's largest cosmic ray telescope, using the distributed sensing and computing power of the world's cell-phones.
astronomy
science
cool
android
github
physics
image
october 2010 by nico.ash
SciPy – the embarrassing way to code
november 2009 by nico.ash
The downside to all this is that you send months developing your complex algorithms and when you’re done you show somebody the result of all your efforts — a page or two of code. It looks like something that somebody could have written in an afternoon. Even worse, you start to suspect that if you had really known scipy and spent a few days carefully thinking about the problem to start with, then you probably could have coded it in an afternoon. It’s a little embarrassing.
python
programming
algorithms
code
scipy
scientific
language
science
math
computer
matrix
november 2009 by nico.ash
Polywell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
october 2009 by nico.ash
The polywell is a plasma confinement concept that combines elements of inertial electrostatic confinement and magnetic confinement fusion, intended ultimately to produce fusion power. The name polywell is a portmanteau of "polyhedron" and "potential well."
physics
science
technology
generator
politics
cool
power
sustainability
bussard
polywell
energy
fusion
electricitygeneration
october 2009 by nico.ash
How to Save New Brain Cells: Scientific American
february 2009 by nico.ash
Fresh neurons arise in the adult brain every day. New research suggests that the cells ultimately help with learning complex tasks—and the more they are challenged, the more they flourish
science
health
neuroscience
biology
brain
cognition
memory
february 2009 by nico.ash
Airless Tire Promises Grace Under Pressure for Soldiers [Slide Show]: Scientific American
november 2008 by nico.ash
Airless Tire Promises Grace Under Pressure for Soldiers
technology
science
space
car
architecture
miltech
november 2008 by nico.ash
The flying car
november 2008 by nico.ash
parasail with a car
technology
science
green
gadgets
cool
future
flyingcar
flying_car
flying
cars
car
november 2008 by nico.ash
The latest research on the correlation between religion and niceness. - By Paul Bloom - Slate Magazine
november 2008 by nico.ash
short version : it's the community, not the religion or the lack thereof.
sociology
society
science
research
psychology
philosophy
ideas
culture
morality
religion
usa
atheism
november 2008 by nico.ash
Real Time Monitor @ Imperial College London HEP e-Science
october 2008 by nico.ash
A visualisation of the load on nods and jobs migration running on the EGEE Grid, of which CERN is a member. It is using the NASA worldwind as a globe backend.
visualization
science
research
physics
monitoring
maps
earth
grid
3d
map
nasa
computing
egee
lcg
lhc
java
worldwind
mapping
october 2008 by nico.ash
Stanford School of Engineering
september 2008 by nico.ash
free comp-sci , ia and robotics courses
video
science
programming
free
education
computer
robots
university
stanford
september 2008 by nico.ash
Rule Forty Two - » Welcome to the Future
september 2008 by nico.ash
review of predictions for the 20th century by past authors, and a few prediction by the writer.
post-to-read
history
science
trends
future
article
research
predictions
prediction
september 2008 by nico.ash
Harvard Gazette: Meditation changes temperatures
september 2008 by nico.ash
monks can increase their body temperature to dry wet cold sheets in a cold environnement - other monks can lower their metabolism by 64% by meditation, vs 17% for normal sleep.
science
reference
psychology
news
health
cool
brain
article
zen
yoga
tummo
september 2008 by nico.ash
Dreamsongs Essays Downloads
august 2008 by nico.ash
essays by richard p gabriel. Includes about "worse is better" and lisp.
software
science
programming
lisp
philosophy
essays
development
richardgabriel
writing
history
post-to-read
theory
scheme
august 2008 by nico.ash
Gyroscopic space robot avoids negative reactions - tech - 07 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech
august 2008 by nico.ash
moving a robot arms without powering the joint, but by turning a gyroscope. Thus the reaction is beween the arm and the gyrscope, not the arm and the spacecraft.
science
robot
video-to-watch
cool
august 2008 by nico.ash
Science: NASA Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible, Beautiful
june 2008 by nico.ash
Scientists from NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory have made them visible as "animated photographs," using sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing. It makes the fields, dance in an absolutely gorgeous movie called Magnetic Movie
science
nasa
video
magnetic
art
fields
movies
animation
cool
june 2008 by nico.ash
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