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Marcus Maertens

Pouring Milk All Over Yourself: The Next Extremely Bizarre Trend? - 1 views

www.theatlanticcities.com/...4030

fun

shared by Marcus Maertens on 23 May 13 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 23 May 13
     
    So... who is in?
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  • johannessimon81 on 24 May 13
     
    I thought you were supposed to do this with petrol... |:-[ It's by the way cool to see how the milk seems to flow very differently from what one might expect from water: it seems to flow in a few thick streams instead of wetting the whole person... Since the surface tension of milk seems to be lower than that of water (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=908B02C3825E97162B9D60DA615EAC96.journals?fromPage=online&aid=5146540) this is surprising. It might very well be an effect of the colloidal nature of milk as it is water in which semi-solid fat particles are suspended. So like the cornstarch mix that we have seen in the office there might be some dynamic jamming going on leading to a higher viscosity (at high shear rates). After all they might be doing science...
  • LeopoldS on 28 May 13
     
    nice comment Johannes ... if you add a bit of Kleopatre, e.g. why bathing in milk helped her fool Marcus Antonius, your comment would be fully interdisciplinary :-)
  • johannessimon81 on 28 May 13
     
    you mean it would include History or Psychology? I would understand why Marcus Antonius might get fooled by a bathing beauty - but milk? DONKEY MILK?!? That's just wrong... :-[
johannessimon81

Quarterly report... - 5 views

www.collegehumor.com/...dinosaur-office

FUN

shared by johannessimon81 on 10 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 11 Apr 13
     
    Oh No! The Quarterly Repooooooooort... :D
Isabelle Dicaire

Object likely benign plastic from Curiosity rover - 5 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...121010103423.htm

shared by Isabelle Dicaire on 19 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Isabelle Dicaire on 19 Oct 12
     
    Rover Curiosity finds man-made shiny material on Mars. It seems the rover is littering plastic on the planet!
  • LeopoldS on 19 Oct 12
     
    Their planetary protection officers will have some interesting questions to ask ...
santecarloni

Occupy Federal Science: "Transformative" Research Can't Come From Milquetoast | The Cru... - 4 views

blogs.discovermagazine.com/...rch-cant-come-from-milquetoast

science research

shared by santecarloni on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 15 Dec 11
     
    I like this one "The kind of idle pastime that might amuse physicists is to imagine drafting Einstein's grant applications in 1905. "I propose to investigate the idea that light travels in little bits," one might say. "I will explore the possibility that time slows down as things speed up," goes another. Imagine what comments these would have elicited from reviewers for the German Science Funding Agency, had such a thing existed. Instead, Einstein just did the work anyway while drawing his wages as a technical expert third-class at the Bern patent office. And that is how he invented quantum physics and relativity." There is an even more pointer example of the Prussian academy of sciences reviewing the Dr. application of Hertz ...
  • dejanpetkow on 16 Dec 11
     
    Shocking. What is federal research funding for? No, wrong question. Instead maybe: What is federally funded review for?
Athanasia Nikolaou

The weather of 2013 bucked in an 8' video - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

climate remote sensing

shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 27 Jan 14
     
    Very comprehensive thanks to the narrator from EUMETSAT training office (plus aesthetically pleasing)
Ma Ru

The Highlight of the Scientific Calendar, 2014 - 7 views

www.improbable.com/...winners

science BIO PHY FUN

shared by Ma Ru on 20 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 20 Sep 14
     
    It's out there for TWO days and no one has posted it here yet? What's happening to the ACT... In any case, yet-another-year-ACT-didn't-make-it... Better luck next time.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Sep 14
     
    read them when they came out - as probably 90% of ACTers but did not see any of them worth posting ...
  • Ma Ru on 22 Sep 14
     
    I think e.g. de Tommaso et al. results have application in almost any business, ESA notwithstanding, in terms of implications for optimal office decor...
johannessimon81

Botiful: telepresence robot for smartphones - 2 views

botiful.me/gallery.html

technology telepresence

shared by johannessimon81 on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 31 Oct 13
     
    I think we should have some of these in the office for teleworking. Also would be cool to interact with family back home. Check out the video (especially the Jedi light saber fight at the end)! :-D
  • johannessimon81 on 31 Oct 13
     
    Just pre-ordered it (should be ~200 - 250€). Unfortunately not clear yet when they will be ready to ship the items.
andreiaries

NASA - MOONBASE ALPHA - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/...index.html

nasa moonbase game

shared by andreiaries on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • andreiaries on 02 Jul 10
     
    ........... COMING JULY 6th
Juxi Leitner

NASA - Centennial Challenges - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/...index.html

tech prizes technology space

shared by Juxi Leitner on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 14 Jul 10
     
    New Centennial Challenges Announced!
Juxi Leitner

NASA - Ideas for New NASA Prize Challenges - 0 views

www.nasa.gov/...cc_future.html

nasa prize technology

shared by Juxi Leitner on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 29 Sep 09
     
    I am wondering what they would say to some of the IDEASTORM ideas ;)
LeopoldS

NASA - NASA IT Summit - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...index.html

it nasa inf technology conference

shared by LeopoldS on 11 Aug 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 11 Aug 10
     
    who of you IT guru's are going to stay up late to follow some of the presentations live?
  • LeopoldS on 12 Aug 10
     
    nobody interested? Ed? Francesco? Dario?
Ma Ru

Robots on TV: AI goes back to baby basics - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...-goes-back-to-baby-basics.html

AI robotics Plymouth science

shared by Ma Ru on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 21 Sep 10
     
    A bit of self-ad here :-) Hear my lab colleague Tony Morse speaking about developmental robotics, and meet our little iCub... As a bonus, have a peep into the kitchen and messy lab of the guys downstairs... my office is of course much nicer!!!
  • Dario Izzo on 21 Sep 10
     
    "and yet one (idea) that allowed to make new predictions that are now being tested in children"!!! Which one? I am curious.
  • Ma Ru on 22 Sep 10
     
    Will ask him today...
nikolas smyrlakis

UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors' - Telegraph - 2 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...r-to-greet-alien-visitors.html

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 26 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 27 Sep 10
Francesco Biscani

How to quadruple your productivity with an army of student interns - 6 views

blog.ksplice.com/...oductivity-with-an-intern-army

inf

shared by Francesco Biscani on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 13 Mar 10
     
    Potential lessons for out own trainee program?
  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 10
     
    well - part of it we already do ... e.g. : (did you see the picture in the report?) "Tolerate a little crowding. It took a little creativity to suddenly find a dozen new workspaces in our two-room office. Fortunately, we've found that a room can always fit one more person-and by induction, you can fit as many as you need. (All those years we spent proving math theorems came in handy after all.) "
LeopoldS

NASA - 2011 NIAC Phase I Selections - 7 views

www.nasa.gov/...2011_phase1_selections.html

NIAC NASA space advanced concepts

shared by LeopoldS on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 09 Aug 11
     
    very nice selection of projects by NIAC!! there are at least some who have European partners as it looks like ... lets still see if we can get involved ...
  • Ma Ru on 09 Aug 11
     
    Interesting. Is it NASA's equivalent of ESA's GSP?
  • Joris _ on 09 Aug 11
     
    It is a good thing NIAC is alive again. Wie, Bong -> "Optimal Dispersion of Near-Earth Objects" . I wonder what it is?
LeopoldS

Shake, rattle and … power up? - MIT News Office - 0 views

web.mit.edu/...ower-from-vibrations-0914.html

NRG

shared by LeopoldS on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of taking a cantilever-based approach, the team went a slightly different route, engineering a microchip with a small bridge-like structure that’s anchored to the chip at both ends. The researchers deposited a single layer of PZT to the bridge, placing a small weight in the middle of it. The team then put the device through a series of vibration tests, and found it was able to respond not just at one specific frequency, but also at a wide range of other low frequencies. The researchers calculated that the device was able to generate 45 microwatts of power with just a single layer of PZT — an improvement of two orders of magnitude compared to current designs.
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 11
     
    should we have another look at this type of technology?
LeopoldS

NASA - Green Flight Challenge - 0 views

www.nasa.gov/...index.html

flight efficiency sustainability

shared by LeopoldS on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 03 Aug 09
     
    new challenge among the NASA centennial challenges ...
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