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p2p is still massive and seems to be constant, but real-time entertainment is taking over. More details here: http://www.sandvine.com/downloads/documents/05-17-2011_phenomena/Sandvine%20Global%20Internet%20Phenomena%20Report.pdf

how reliable is this ... looks strange that e.g. secure tunneling and social networking are diminuing, isn't it?

Changing people's behaviour through fun. Looks a bit naive, but if there are any ideas http://www.thefuntheory.com there's an ongoing competition until the 15th of Nov.

This is the Web 3.0-version of a bullshit generation. Much fun though. Here an article about it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/20/iwise-is-twitter-for-dead-people/

electric grid modelling .... Nikolaos could you have a look at this?

Taking decisions - how monkeys do it http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7148/pdf/nature05852.pdf

IR sensor from the fire beetle

Other webs: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/03/17/ciencia/1205775399.html

Useful journal for the upcoming Earth Systems Science. For geoengineering, check out this: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/2559/2009/acpd-9-2559-2009.pdf (currently first on the list of this bookmark)

Maybe the prediction that "all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=2) is true after all...

an interesting comic about maths, ideas etc. Co-written by a greek mathematician / writer and a Berkeley computer science professor, sold out in Greece and since its international release a couple of months ago is occupying the top selling comics lists of Amazon etc. also: http://www.logicomix.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=53

btw I just ordered it from Amazon, so if you want after I finish it I can lend it

http://www.brain-map.org/ yummy! brains...

Let's keep going then ...

Or maybe not ..... 1) http://www.jstor.org/pss/3666221 (reminds me of someone :) 2) http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/think-well/201101/why-optimism-can-be-bad-your-mental-health (se comment above)

Tokyo has a very large population and one of the smallest crime rates in the world, in fact Tokyo is known to be the safest big city in the world (w.r.t. crime). It is hard to believe that the crime rate in L.A. is in the same order of magnitude.

Also check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V0FowbxEe3w. I like the "pay for wtf?" concept.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting 10 kW of power through 500 m. An announcement that comes just after JAXA scientists reported one more breakthrough in the quest for Space Solar Power Systems (http://phys.org/news/2015-03-japan-space-scientists-wireless-energy.html). One step closer to Power Generation from Space/

from the press release (https://www.mhi-global.com/news/story/1503121879.html) "10 kilowatts (kW) of power was sent from a transmitting unit by microwave. The reception of power was confirmed at a receiver unit located at a distance of 500 meters (m) away by the illumination of LED lights, using part of power transmitted". So 10kW of transmission to light a few efficient LED lights??? In a 2011 report (https://www.mhi-global.com/company/technology/review/pdf/e484/e484017.pdf), MHI estimated this would generate the same electricity output as a 400-megawatt thermal plant - or enough to serve more than 150,000 homes during peak hours. The price? The same as publicly supplied power, according to its calculations. There are no results to boost these claims however. The main work they do now is focused on beam steering control. I guess the real application in mind is more targeted to terrestrial applications, eg wireless highway charging (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120312-wireless-highway-to-charge-cars). With the distances so much shorter, leading to much smaller antenna's and rectenna's this makes much more sense to me to develop.

"The experiments involve an oil droplet that bounces along the surface of a liquid. The droplet gently sloshes the liquid with every bounce. At the same time, ripples from past bounces affect its course. The droplet's interaction with its own ripples, which form what's known as a pilot wave, causes it to exhibit behaviors previously thought to be peculiar to elementary particles - including behaviors seen as evidence that these particles are spread through space like waves, without any specific location, until they are measured." Pilot-wave theory reresurrected. Maybe something for the next "fundamental" :P physics RF?

And for the next 'Experimental Physics Stagiaire' position why not try to do "Unpredictable Tunneling of a Classical Wave-Particle Association" http://stilton.tnw.utwente.nl/people/eddi/Papers/PhysRevLett_TUNNEL.pdf, there are some rumors online that the results of Yves Couder Experiments can be reproduced with simple DIY vibrating tables! It is very funny to see the videos of the MIT's replication of this experiment (with lightening legends for those who are uncomfortable with the concepts involved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5iHQMjcsM)

Cool scientific and technical feat in engineering a tractor beam. See the explanation video here http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151027/ncomms9661/extref/ncomms9661-s3.mov and the thing working in real time here http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151027/ncomms9661/extref/ncomms9661-s2.mov

A new so called 5D data storage that could potentially survive for billions of years. The research consists of nanostructured glass that can record digital data in five dimensions using femtosecond laser writing.

Yes Alex, indeed, the durability is the point I think they highlight and focus on (besides the fact the abstract says something as the extrapolated decay time being comparable to the age of the Universe..). Indeed memories face problems with retention time. Most of the disks retain the information up to 10 years. When enterprises want to store data for longer times than this they use... yeah, magnetic tapes :-). Check a interesting article about magnetic tape market revival here http://www.information-age.com/technology/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure/123458854/rise-fall-and-re-rise-magnetic-tape I compared for fun, to have one idea of what we were talking about. I am also very curious so see the writing and reading times in this new memory :)

But how can glass store the information so long? Glass is not even solid?!

38 degree core body temp in microgravity stabilised after 2 months - due to reduced conv. heat transfer+evaporation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15560-w

so that's hypopyrexia (augmented concentrations of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist) AND hypothermia (convection/evaportation)? what puzzles me is that temperatures take so long to return to baseline after astronauts return to earth.

About "Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x. "Overall, our results deepen understanding of the evolution of knowledge and may guide career planning and science policy. To promote disruptive science and technology, scholars may be encouraged to read widely and given time to keep up with the rapidly expanding knowledge frontier. Universities may forgo the focus on quantity, and more strongly reward research quality56, and perhaps more fully subsidize year-long sabbaticals. Federal agencies may invest in the riskier and longer-term individual awards that support careers and not simply specific projects57, giving scholars the gift of time needed to step outside the fray, inoculate themselves from the publish or perish culture, and produce truly consequential work. Understanding the decline in disruptive science and technology more fully permits a much-needed rethinking of strategies for organizing the production of science and technology in the future."