http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-192842.html short video, basically it’s a pocket of gas and some kind of heating device that might be microwave-like RF device. Not coming to flashlights any time soon, but for street lighting, stadiums etc?
Read more →Keynote **really** needs to allow you to record your presentations in the “presenter mode” view, rather than the “presentation mode” view. Still, good enough to get the conversation started. UPDATE: AARRRGGHHH… youtube audio synch issues are horrific. Use this version instead: http://ia341018.us.archive.org/0/items/SeverePanfluResponseStrategiesPresentation-AlphaRelease/SeverePanfluResponseStrategies.mov
Read more →Miskolczi’s story reads like a book. Looking at a series of differential equations for the greenhouse effect, he noticed the solution — originally done in 1922 by Arthur Milne, but still used by climate researchers today — ignored boundary conditions by assuming an “infinitely thick” atmosphere. Similar assumptions are common when solving differential equations; they [...]
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Read more →Just… watch it. It’s huge. I think this could be done using eyeball tracking without the sensor bar too.
Read more →Stay with me here, tell me where my logic is faulty. Statements of the obvious: 1> At the earlier stages of human evolution, brain volume increased very very rapidly, in a manner which is almost universally believed to be a result of intelligence-based selection, possibly sexual selection driven by the complexities of comparatively larger human [...]
Read more →In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba, flew to America and returned with seven x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army. They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child [...]
Read more →And this is a cutting plan for a one sheet of plywood boat which is absurdly brilliant, and very reminiscent of both hexayurts and Playatech furniture.
Read more →Remember those “hobbit” skeletons? Yup, it was a human subspecies Here’s my question. If birds who’ve never seen an eagle’s shadow still know to panic, that suggests that some kinds of threat identification stuff can be genetically hardwired. What if that extends to things other than threats? Like, say, food sources… Or, you know, just [...]
Read more →Slate on Operational Research in a medical environment The road to reform is called “open access” (or “advanced access” or “same-day scheduling”). Dozens of papers have been published showing how practices around the country have done it, starting in 2000, when Dr. Mark Murray and colleague Catherine Tantau wrote about their experience of reducing the [...]
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