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Sochi Official: Our Shower Surveillance Footage Says Hotels Are Fine - 3 views

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shared by johannessimon81 on 07 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 07 Feb 14
     
    Among other things reporters say that bathroom facilities are terrible in Sochi. But according to the Deputy Prime Minister guest in hotels are on purpose using shower facilities incorrectly, as surveillance videos show. :-D
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Gadget Genius - nanotechnology breakthrough is big deal for electronics : The Universit... - 2 views

www.uakron.edu/...news_details.dot science technology
shared by Marcus Maertens on 28 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 28 Jul 13
     
    Quote: "This is exactly what we are pursuing - self-assembling materials that organize at smaller sizes, say, less than 20 or even 10 nanometers"
  • Thijs Versloot on 29 Jul 13
     
    Direct Self-Assembly (DSA) is one of the competitors for the next-generation 'lithography' together with direct-write via electron beam and the more traditional extreme UV (EUV) lithography. Although there are huge benefits to use DSA, the technology does have some drawbacks when it comes to line edge roughness. It seems however particularly good for repetitive structures that are used in memory chips. As long as EUV is struggling to get it working, DSA definitely has a fighting chance to enter the market one day.
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IPCC models getting mushy | Financial Post - 2 views

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shared by Dario Izzo on 17 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 17 Sep 13
     
    why am I not surprised .....
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 17 Sep 13
     
    http://www.academia.edu/4210419/Can_climate_models_explain_the_recent_stagnation_in_global_warming A view of well-respected scientists on how to proceed from here, that was rejected from Nature. In any case, a long way to go...
  • LeopoldS on 18 Sep 13
     
    unfortunately it's too early to cheer and burn more coal ... there is also a nice podcast associated to this paper from nature Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling Yu Kosaka & Shang-Ping Xie Nature 501, 403-407 (19 September 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12534 Received 18 June 2013 Accepted 08 August 2013 Published online 28 August 2013 Despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual-mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty-first century1, 2, challenging the prevailing view that anthropogenic forcing causes climate warming. Various mechanisms have been proposed for this hiatus in global warming3, 4, 5, 6, but their relative importance has not been quantified, hampering observational estimates of climate sensitivity. Here we show that accounting for recent cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific reconciles climate simulations and observations. We present a novel method of uncovering mechanisms for global temperature change by prescribing, in addition to radiative forcing, the observed history of sea surface temperature over the central to eastern tropical Pacific in a climate model. Although the surface temperature prescription is limited to only 8.2% of the global surface, our model reproduces the annual-mean global temperature remarkably well with correlation coefficient r = 0.97 for 1970-2012 (which includes the current hiatus and a period of accelerated global warming). Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southern USA. Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to a La-Niña-like decadal cooling. Although similar decadal hiatus events may occur in the future, the multi-decadal warming trend is very likely to continue with greenhouse gas
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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.
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Science on Mars and Mars on Science - 0 views

news.sciencemag.org/...-mars-rover-quest-ancient-life chemistry geology BIO planetary Mars
shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 09 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 09 Dec 13
     
    Some sort of organic carbon has been detected by the sampling of Curiosity; the contamination source was isolated and the signal persists. The scientists suggest as a source meteorites transporting interstellar matter, or maybe some sort of ancient life whose biomass production only survived cosmic radiation as it was buried underground. a big deal: six relevant articles were published simultaneously online: http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/curiosity/index.xhtml?utm_content=&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=Science&utm_source=shortener
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CERN to switch to Comic Sans | CERN - 4 views

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  • jmlloren on 01 Apr 14
     
    Finally good news!
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  • johannessimon81 on 02 Apr 14
     
    I find it sad how Comic Sans is getting so much bad attitude from people... It's certainly not as horrific as Curlz or Exocet
  • Paul N on 05 Apr 14
     
    Wingdings!
  • LeopoldS on 09 Apr 14
     
    "CERN management also decreed that especially important physics results would from now on be accompanied online by animations of little clappy hands. The changes will take effect 1 April 2014."
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Stability and Transport of Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles in Groundwater and Surface Water - 0 views

online.liebertpub.com/...ees.2013.0392 graphene science environment
shared by Nicholas Lan on 29 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 29 Apr 14
     
    study on the environmental effects of graphene. related article http://gizmodo.com/graphene-might-be-way-worse-for-the-environment-than-we-1568823876
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Back to Earth with a splash! Fisherman finds car-sized fragment of a SPACE ROCKET in a ... - 4 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...CE-ROCKET-Brazilian-river.html rocket MAD arianne debris
shared by Dario Izzo on 02 May 14 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 02 May 14
     
    ooops ....
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 May 14
     
    Where is the sticker saying "if found, please post this item unstamped to the following address"?
  • Ma Ru on 07 May 14
     
    Yup, it's ours... Still, better take it out of the river than in the face. Such a big one especially.
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You Are Now Free to Move About the Insect - ScienceNOW - 1 views

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shared by pacome delva on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Researchers thought that flies chose their altitude based on optic flow, a phenomenon familiar to anyone who has ridden an airplane.
  • The team's observations, published online today in Current Biology, suggest that flies base their cruising altitude on horizontal edges and landmarks—such as table surfaces or tree tops—and not on how fast the ground is moving beneath them. The edge-tracking strategy may enable flies to keep tabs on possible landing spots.
  • This may be the general principle" for all flying insects, he says.
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An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering - 0 views

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shared by pacome delva on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • A number of right-wing think tanks actively denying climate change are also promoting geoengineering, an irony that seems to escape them.
  • Wood believes that climate engineering is inevitable. In a statement that could serve as Earth's epitaph, he declared: "We've engineered every other environment we live in, why not the planet?"
  • It's estimated that if whoever controls the scheme decided to stop, the greenhouse gases that would have built up could cause warming to rebound at a rate 10 to 20 times that of the recent past - a phenomenon referred to, apparently without irony, as the "termination problem".
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Fractal Scaling Models of Natural Oscillations in Chain Systems and the Mass Distributi... - 1 views

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  • LeopoldS on 13 Aug 10
     
    Luzi: no critical comment on this? would love to hear your opinion ...
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The creator of Dilbert and his experience with energy efficiency - 4 views

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shared by sreejanag on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
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  • sreejanag on 25 Aug 10
     
    Funny read, if nothing else!
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Regular Moderate Intake of Red Wine Is Linked to a Better Women's Sexual Health - Monda... - 1 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...abstract BIO wine fun science
shared by LeopoldS on 31 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 31 Oct 10
     
    study by university of Florence ... does the quality of the wine have any influence?
  • Ma Ru on 01 Nov 10
     
    Nice to see some applied research from time to time...
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Make: Online : Programmable blobs - 4 views

blog.makezine.com/...programmable_blobs.html technology programmable meta materials
shared by Juxi Leitner on 09 Nov 10 - No Cached
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Google to Give Staff 10% Raise - WSJ.com - 2 views

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shared by LeopoldS on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 10 Nov 10
     
    we get 3% cut - they get 10% more :-(
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The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...26097 Living Earth Simulator database data modelling simulator forecast
shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • an ambitious European plan to simulate the entire planet. The idea is to exploit the huge amounts of data generated by financial markets, health records, social media and climate monitoring to model the planet's climate, societies and economy. The vision is that a system like this can help to understand and predict crises before they occur so that governments can take appropriate measures in advance.
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Dec 10
     
    website of the project working on the 'Living Earth Simulator': http://www.futurict.ethz.ch/FuturICT five page summary of the FuturICT Proposal: http://www.futurict.ethz.ch/data/FuturICT-FivePageSummary.pdf
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Make: Online : Beyond awesome: launching a Christmas tree - 3 views

blog.makezine.com/...some_launching_a_christma.html jokes
shared by LeopoldS on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 07 Jan 10
     
    fantastic .... thanks Jürgen
  • Juxi Leitner on 07 Jan 10
     
    makes me wonder what is going to happen with the ESTEC christmas tree ;)
  • Ma Ru on 07 Jan 10
     
    Perfect parabola! I love the way the tree stung the earth with the star at the top :D
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