Look at this! Seems that we are as close to the bonobos as we are to the chimpanzees If only we resolved more to their ways of getting rid of stress (sex) more than using the chimpanzees' (aggression)...

Enjoy....

you will love this one ...

Sante, Andreas, Luzi, Pacome ... we need you: "But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.

Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more, White found.

"The findings I presented today change it from impractical to plausible and worth further investigation," White told SPACE.com. "The additional energy reduction realized by oscillating the bubble intensity is an interesting conjecture that we will enjoy looking at in the lab.""

Luzi I miss you ...

ever heard of the Erdős-Bacon number? :-)

Frightening! In reality, the deal has almost nothing to do with trade: actual trade barriers between these countries are already very low. The TPP is an effort to use the holy grail of free trade to impose conditions and override domestic laws in a way that would be almost impossible if the proposed measures had to go through the normal legislative process. The expectation is that by lining up powerful corporate interests, the governments will be able to ram this new "free trade" pact through legislatures on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

remember what we tried to do with Mihaly for the CDF about in 2003 - they are now doing it .... fantastic

"This year's problem is the global mapping of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, by means of close flybys. A trajectory must be designed for a low-thrust spacecraft which starts at a given distance and speed with respect to Jupiter. The dynamics are simplified: The Sun's gravity is excluded, Jupiter is modelled as a point mass, the flybys of the satellites are modelled as "patched conics" (the satellites do not otherwise affect the trajectory), and the satellites are assumed to follow conic orbits around Jupiter. A performance index, capturing the extent of the global mapping, is to be maximised, subject to a variety of constraints."

Sorry ,here now the right link to the nature paper ...in english

Zeilinger strikes again ...

isn't it strange that one single gene mutation can enable or disable such a complex behavioural pattern? anything to take advantage of in our gate study (Guido?)

Sounds bogus to me, submitted already 2008,

any of the geeks tried this already? Francesco?

nobody ... you are not as geeky as I thought ...

nice read ... let's hope since Apple got anyway already too powerful

proposal for one of the next ACT movie nights? anybody seen it?

Luke Skywalker?

loss of a real hero who never accepted being one ...

fail safe is is probably a bit exaggerated ...

anybody for moving up there? :-)

and what is your take?