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LeopoldS

Former Astronaut Bolden to Be Interviewed for Top NASA Job - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...16bolden.html

politics US NASA

shared by LeopoldS on 16 May 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 May 09
     
    good sign??
ESA ACT

European Union Adds a Coffee Monitor - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...11coffee.html

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    issues about the espresso at the EC in Brussels. What about sodexho...
ESA ACT

Basics - Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...19basics.html

technology gadget

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    the putting the laptop in the freezer worked for me.... (LS)
ESA ACT

The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize - ... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...23Netflix-t.html

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    THE "NAPOLEON DYNAMITE" and the Netflix competition, quite interesting
Nina Nadine Ridder

Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery | Science | The Guardian - 4 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...cern-big-bang-goes-phut

LHC

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 10 Nov 09
     
    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...
Nicolas Weiss

World Cup Roundup - A Draw Is Good Enough for Uruguay to Advance - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...19soccer.html

footbaal

shared by Nicolas Weiss on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nicolas Weiss on 19 Nov 09
     
    finally!
Joris _

In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05light.html

bio science NASA

shared by Joris _ on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 05 Jul 11
     
    Maybe you can use some blue light during the wednesday meeting to keep people awake and alert :p
  • LeopoldS on 06 Jul 11
     
    highly needed indeed ...
Luís F. Simões

Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations | Video on TED.com - 3 views

www.ted.com/...f_cities_and_corporations.html

TED cities companies growth complex_systems complex_networks

shared by Luís F. Simões on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.
  • For those who felt that Geoffrey glossed over the implications for cities and companies, the following article in the New York Times did a respectable job of drawing conclusions from Dr. West's paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html
  • dejanpetkow on 27 Oct 11
     
    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.
Ma Ru

Memory and the Cybermind - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...memory-and-the-cybermind.html

technology science psychology memory INF

shared by Ma Ru on 17 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 17 Aug 12
     
    or "your phone vs. your wife"...
Lionel Jacques

ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign for Phobos-Grunt - 2 views

www.spaceref.com/...viewpr.rss.html

Space

shared by Lionel Jacques on 16 Jan 12 - No Cached
Thijs Versloot

The World's Fair 2014 - Isaac Asimov's predictions 40 years ago - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...asi-v-fair.html

history

shared by Thijs Versloot on 02 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 Jan 14
     
    saac Asimov's predictions of the year 2014 back in 1964.. Truly amazing to read how close his sharp mind turned out to be at that time (cold war, Yuri Gagarin just went into space and Fortran first appeared 7 years before). The last prediction also came true I think, however the solution was not psychiatry.. instead we invented Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 Jan 14
     
    Also, he predicted that solar power stations would power the places on earth where solar power nor fission (?) would be available... Not there yet
LeopoldS

The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...ng-the-nsas-all-seeing-machine

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  • LeopoldS on 12 Nov 13
     
    nice summary overview
  • Thijs Versloot on 13 Nov 13
Paul N

Genetic code extended to 3 base pairs - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...g-artificial-genetic-code.html

BIO

shared by Paul N on 07 May 14 - No Cached
  • Paul N on 07 May 14
     
    While the new bacteria is pretty much useless, it would be interesting to see how base 3 genetic programming would turn out.
Nicholas Lan

Letter from Intergovernmental panel on climate change. - 2 views

docs.google.com/fileview

environment climate change

shared by Nicholas Lan on 21 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 21 Jul 10
     
    To Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, and Review Editors for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) "I would also like to emphasize that enhanced media interest in the work of the IPCC would probably subject you to queries about your work and the IPCC. My sincere advice would be that you keep a distance from the media and should any questions be asked about the Working Group with which you are associated, please direct such media questions to the Co-chairs of your Working Group and for any questions regarding the IPCC to the secretariat of the IPCC." and an amusing related memo on how to deal with reporters if you can't avoid them. I particularly enjoyed the list of words that mean one thing to scientists and something else to other people. https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B88iFXWgVKt-NDc2N2FiM2QtYzQzYS00MWMxLWE4MGEtZjUwZDlmNzc3MTcz&hl=en
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  • Ma Ru on 21 Jul 10
     
    This. Memo. Is. Awesome.
  • pacome delva on 21 Jul 10
     
    quite weird this note of IPCC... I feel more like people have to be educated...
  • Nicholas Lan on 21 Jul 10
     
    i agree. however, (and perhaps it would have been useful to post my source which didn't seem so interesting at the time) the contents of this particular memo seems to have been interpreted as a more or less direct consequence of "ClimateGate" rather than standard practice. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-climate-change/ On the other hand, I'd suggest that talking to the press is not necessarily a great way of educating the public, there being some truth i think to the contents of the memo.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jul 10
     
    don't know why this seems weired or shocking - looks like some good practice advice to me
  • pacome delva on 21 Jul 10
     
    well compare to ESA it's sure it doesn't seem weird. Imagine one second a journal article about climate change: "We contacted Dr. X of the IPCC, who refused to answer to our questions..."
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 10
     
    this is not what the memo recommends ... it just says speak only about what you can confidently speak about and refer to others for other questions ...
Ma Ru

Researcher Creates 'Facebook for Scientists' - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...book-for-scientists-22081.html

inf Web 2.0 ariadnet science

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  • LeopoldS on 20 Mar 10
     
    and we are of course there since some time :-) and even have our own group in there ... think that Tobias has first discovered it our group is: https://www.researchgate.net/group/ESA_Advanced_Concepts_Team/ everybody welcome to join ... though Ariadnet is better
  • Ma Ru on 23 Mar 10
     
    So if I'm already on Ariadnet, there's no need for me to join this researchgate thingy? Pheew..
  • Luzi Bergamin on 23 Mar 10
     
    Very active group, it has exactly one member (Leo) and exactly zero (ZERO,0!!) posts since June 13, 2008!!! Well, sounds like a very typical ACT action in order to increase the key performance indicators :D.
  • Ma Ru on 23 Mar 10
     
    Oh come on Luzi, don't be over-pessimistic! It's just because all activity takes place on Ariadnet ;-)
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Mar 10
     
    tsk tsk typical ex-ACT criticism.. Maybe for me too from next week;P
  • Luzi Bergamin on 24 Mar 10
     
    WRONG! You ignore the fact that I complained already while I was yet in the ACT!! Seriously: I clicked around in "ResearchGate" a little bit, couldn't find too many interesting things. Many scientists from India, Iran etc. desperately looking for contacts, retired engineers/scientists from industry that now remember that they were once at university and also quite a number of semi-crackpots. My honest conclusion: not a must. Btw: wish you a nice post-ACT depression! Keep a stiff upper lip, esp. in case you go back to Greece...
Dario Izzo

Google's 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve - 7 views

www.nytimes.com/...13hire.html

CMS INF

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  • Dario Izzo on 16 Mar 11
     
    Well, well, Google says it. And all is a result of an algorithm..... Among the interesting fincings the algorithm says that technical competence of the boss is not needed..... against their own beliefs!!
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  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 11
     
    "Although people are always looking for the next new thing in leadership," he said, "Google's data suggest that not much has changed in terms of what makes for an effective leader."
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 16 Mar 11
     
    "Managers often want to hire people who seem just like them" does the ACT look like the managers or the managers like the ACT ? hmmm
  • Ma Ru on 16 Mar 11
     
    "the topic often feels a bit like golf" What other comparison can one use in an article aimed towards managers? :D
  • LeopoldS on 17 Mar 11
     
    nobody in the ACT plays golf yet as far as I know ...
  • Ma Ru on 17 Mar 11
     
    Which is a pity as you have a golf field not that far away :-D Maybe a good idea for a nice team building event??
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