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Ma Ru

How fast can a robot run? - 4 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-17271387

technology robotics video record cheetah

shared by Ma Ru on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
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  • Ma Ru on 06 Mar 12
     
    Cool video, although I'm surprised *they* could not afford a hi-speed camera...
Luzi Bergamin

BBC News - 'New release' of climate emails - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/world-15840562

climate science

shared by Luzi Bergamin on 23 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Luzi Bergamin on 23 Nov 11
     
    Not really new, as it seems...
Dario Izzo

UK mulls tough laws against internet 'trolls' - 2 views

www.aljazeera.com/...2012612163843338982.html

laws internet europe

shared by Dario Izzo on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 15 Jun 12
     
    Hilarious!!! This is stupid / useless in so many ways, I cannot even start listing them ....
Joris _

Out of this world! Student takes stunning snaps of space using only a £30 sec... - 2 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...econd-hand-camera-balloon.html

MAD

shared by Joris _ on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 24 Sep 12
     
    Boh....
Dario Izzo

Time travellers may be using Twitter and Facebook according to Robert Nemiroff and Tere... - 1 views

metro.co.uk/...ding-no-evidence-of-it-4249580

time travel space

shared by Dario Izzo on 14 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 14 Jan 14
     
    "Time travellers may be using Twitter and Facebook, claim scientists, despite finding no evidence of it" the same can be said for most moders science "big claims with no evidence" :)
Luís F. Simões

14 Time Travelling Celebrities - 1 views

www.newageman.co.uk/14-time-travelling-celebrities

fun time travel

shared by Luís F. Simões on 25 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Do you ever wonder why some celebrities don't seem to age? The New Age Man has uncovered insurmountable evidence proving that some celebrities are time travelling time lords. Don't believe it? Take a look at the evidence with your own eyes.
  • Luís F. Simões on 25 Feb 14
     
    "The Man from Earth" is real !! and there are apparently many of them around...
Thijs Versloot

Role of data visualization in the scientific community @britishlibrary - 1 views

infosthetics.com/...in_the_scientific_process.html

data visualization graphics

shared by Thijs Versloot on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Mar 14
     
    In a new exhibition titled Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight [bl.uk], the British Library pays homage to the important role data visualization plays in the scientific process. The exhibition can be visited from 20 February until 26 May 2014, and contains works ranging from John Snow's plotting of the 1854 London cholera infections on a map to colourful depictions of the Tree of Life.
johannessimon81

Air pollution weakens hurricanes - 3 views

tamutimes.tamu.edu/...ls-appear-to-weaken-hurricanes

science weather climate?

shared by johannessimon81 on 11 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 11 Mar 14
     
    Problem solved.
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  • johannessimon81 on 11 Mar 14
     
    Also, tornados could be stopped from forming by building 300 m tall, 100 km long walls across the USA: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/08/tornado-walls
  • Thijs Versloot on 11 Mar 14
     
    Those would also work very well to keep the Kaiju's out..
  • johannessimon81 on 12 Mar 14
     
    Good point!
Beniamino Abis

Quantum Physics and Game Theory - 1 views

www.bristol.ac.uk/...9593.html

PHY Math GameTheory

shared by Beniamino Abis on 15 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Beniamino Abis on 15 Jul 13
     
    Players with access to quantum resources can outperform classical ones. This will lead to novel joint strategies, impossible to achieve classically. Moreover, some of these strategies represent equilibrium points, leading to the notion of quantum/no-signalling Nash equilibrium.
Aurelie Heritier

Team of scientists create cloned glow-in-the-dark rabbits - 3 views

www.independent.co.uk/...inthedark-rabbits-8756928.html

shared by Aurelie Heritier on 14 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Aurelie Heritier on 14 Aug 13
     
    Fluorescent Bunnies!!!!
Nicholas Lan

The truth IS out there: British scientists claim to have found proof of alien life - Sc... - 4 views

www.independent.co.uk/...oof-of-alien-life-8826690.html

exobiology comets

shared by Nicholas Lan on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 19 Sep 13
     
    should we all go home then? apparently you just need a balloon
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 Sep 13
     
    paper here: http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC22/MILTON%20ISOLATION_final.pdf Not the best journal out there, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology They currently have an open call for papers on Astro-Theology ! :)
  • Nicholas Lan on 19 Sep 13
     
    wow. the wiki page is hilarious. maybe i'll submit something
johannessimon81

Kenia's water problems resolved: satellite data help find giant aquifer - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...science-environment-24049800

science space

shared by johannessimon81 on 11 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 11 Sep 13
     
    The underground lake is big enough to cover Kenia's water need for the next 70 years
johannessimon81

Earth's inner core rotates eastward while the outer core rotates westward - 0 views

www.leeds.ac.uk/...he_dynamics_of_the_earths_core

science PHY

shared by johannessimon81 on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 19 Sep 13
     
    Apparently the core does not only produce a magnetic field - it is also an electric motor!
pandomilla

Another amazing walking seed - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...science-environment-24025365

bio science

shared by pandomilla on 18 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • pandomilla on 18 Sep 13
     
    "Horsetail plant spores use 'legs' to walk and jump!"
Dario Izzo

Space History - 1 views

www.ucl.ac.uk/...space-history

shared by Dario Izzo on 22 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 22 Sep 13
     
    Nice pictures from the past :)
Athanasia Nikolaou

IPCC Press release on Climate change - 4 views

And the live streaming of the press release (unfortunately at the end, now is the Q&A session) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24294905

started by Athanasia Nikolaou on 27 Sep 13 1 follow-up, last by Athanasia Nikolaou on 27 Sep 13
Dario Izzo

Climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't rise... - 5 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...emperature-risen-15-years.html

climate temperature

shared by Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13
     
    This is becoming a mess :)
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  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 20 Sep 13
     
    I would avoid reading climate science from political journals, for a less selective / dramatic picture :-) . Here is a good start: http://www.realclimate.org/ And an article on why climate understanding should be approached hierarcically, (that is not the way done in the IPCC), a view with insight, 8 years ago: http://www.princeton.edu/aos/people/graduate_students/hill/files/held2005.pdf
  • Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13
     
    True, but fundings are allocated to climate modelling 'science' on the basis of political decisions, not solid and boring scientific truisms such as 'all models are wrong'. The reason so many people got trained on this area in the past years is that resources were allocated to climate science on the basis of the dramatic picture depicted by some scientists when it was indeed convenient for them to be dramatic.
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 20 Sep 13
     
    I see your point, and I agree that funding was also promoted through the energy players and their political influence. A coincident parallel interest which is irrelevant to the fact that the question remains vital. How do we affect climate and how does it respond. Huge complex system to analyse which responds in various time scales which could obscure the trend. What if we made a conceptual parallelism with the L Ácquila case : Is the scientific method guilty or the interpretation of uncertainty in terms of societal mobilization? Should we leave the humanitarian aspect outside any scientific activity?
  • Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13
     
    I do not think there is anyone arguing that the question is not interesting and complex. The debate, instead, addresses the predictive value of the models produced so far. Are they good enough to be used outside of the scientific process aimed at improving them? Or should one wait for "the scientific method" to bring forth substantial improvements to the current understanding and only then start using its results? One can take both stand points, but some recent developments will bring many towards the second approach.
Thijs Versloot

Challenges for #AI in #Smartgrids - 0 views

eprints.soton.ac.uk/...ramchurn_etal_smart_grid.pdf

technology energy smartgrid AI

shared by Thijs Versloot on 25 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 25 Nov 13
     
    The Northeast Blackout of 2003 that forced the shut-down of over 100 power plants and affected 55M people - the largest black-out in US history - was precipitated by a single overloaded transmission line, in Ohio, sagging and touching overgrown vegetation.
Dario Izzo

BBC News - Alfredo Moser: Bottle light inventor proud to be poor - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-23536914

innovation invention

shared by Dario Izzo on 27 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 27 Nov 13
     
    Invented in 2002!! A disruptive invention to illuminate shanty towns and beyond .... Makes also sense for space habitats ... paper? anyone?
  • Dario Izzo on 27 Nov 13
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