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LeopoldS

SparkleShare - Sharing work made easy - 3 views

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    alternative to Dropbox that is fully open source and installable on own servers - looks like a nice tool for us ...
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    .. and it's based on GIT! (the "proper geeky alternative to Subversion" thingie we are using to manage PaGMO's source code)
LeopoldS

WebHome < About < Foswiki - 3 views

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    of interest to us? ESA?
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    Good catch, seems pretty nifty. I'm going to give it a spin.
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    perfect - let me know ... thanks
andreiaries

BBC News - Hayabusa capsule particles may be from asteroid - 3 views

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    "Researchers hope the minute particles are from the asteroid"
Dario Izzo

Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS) - 3 views

shared by Dario Izzo on 08 Jul 10 - Cached
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    This platform could be used to collect information from astronomers? Or, can we come up with a cool space app for it?
LeopoldS

Trading Pit History > Signal Gallery - 3 views

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    wanna learn a new dying language?
LeopoldS

NASA - Exploration of Near Earth Objects (NEO) Objectives Workshop [Explore NOW] - 3 views

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    good to see what they come up with there ... assume that our JPL friends are there also
duncan barker

ESA Proves General Theory of Relativity Wrong???? - 3 views

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    Not again, pleeeaaase!!! Alright, you don't know the story, ask Dario or Leo...
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    he just did .... don't worry, it's already over again .... how are you btw?
duncan barker

Challenging Existence of 'Absolute Time' - 3 views

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    I doubt that Shnoll is really the first one making such experiments, but perhaps they are more complete than any others done before. Similar things are very popular in the context of Psychology and more exotic fields. If I remember correctly someone ran long experiments with random number generators... Mostly the stories died after a short time, since the experiments are not reproducable. Anyway, why do these guys always have to claim that their work is somehow fundamentally changing our view of physics, notoriously referring to Einstein-Bohr debates and this stuff. That's nonsense! If these effects exist the first explanation is always much simpler. There is somewhere something that influences physics on Earth in a defined way. But this influence depends on the relative position or whatever of the Earth to that whatever-it-is. No problem with absolute time and all that sh...
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    Two years ago, nearly unnoticed in the West, the Russian biophysicist S.E. Shnoll published a paper in the prominent Russian physics journal Uspekhi Fisicheskikh Nauk ..... ah then ...
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    You are right, Leo, they are mostly Russians that publish in some unspellable Journals nobody knows.... or then they are supported by Templeton Foundation.
Eduardo Martin Moraud

The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory - 3 views

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    ... a theory of everytg. Dario, enjoy! :)
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    the guy is also a guru of brain imaging....... " and is currently the fourth most cited scientist in neuroscience and behavior in the world " - WoW
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    i think the guy was smoking something whilst writing this!!
Juxi Leitner

Inside Google Books: Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. - 3 views

  • After we exclude serials, we can finally count all the books in the world. There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday.
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    interesting post on data and knowledge management ;)
LeopoldS

Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate - PNAS - 3 views

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    one more try to get you interested in this ... seems that it is slowly but surely moving into the domain of serious science ...
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    Why don't you try this out? 10 minutes group meditation before every ACT meeting... Should be fun!
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    Great, just great!! The conclusion seems to be "Thus IBMT could provide a means for improving self-regulation and perhaps reducing or preventing various mental disorders." Why all this neuro-bio-nonsense?? Wasn't this conclusion known before just using good old classic psychology and similar? Again one of these studies that thinks to provide new evidence just because they made a boring brain scan...
Luís F. Simões

Space Colonists Could Use Bacteria to Mine Minerals on Mars and the Moon - 3 views

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    Link to the paper that is the subject of this article: Olsson-Francis, Karen and Cockell, Charles (2010). Use of cyanobacteria for in-situ resource use in space applications. Planetary And Space Science, 58(10), 1279-1285.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2010.05.005
Joris _

SPACE.com -- Railway to the Sky? NASA Ponders New Launch System - 3 views

  • A team of engineers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and some of the agency's other field centers are looking into this and other novel launch systems based on cutting-edge technologies.
  • The launch system would require some advancements of existing technologies, but it wouldn't need any brand-new technologies to work
  • Scramjet vehicles could be used as a basis for a commercial launch program
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  • It's not very often you get to work on a major technology revolution
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    I wonder if they are also working with that SCRAMSPACE initiative in Australia that was presented at ESTEC a while back...
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    what about a space elevator!!! quiet old concept (1895), see this link on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
nikolas smyrlakis

The Space Game - 3 views

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    already on slashdot with a lot of comments. Amazing work, I have no words ! I will just start playing
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    best comment, act style : If we assume teleporters, it wouldn't even take a second. Therefore my completely unrealistic solution is much better than your completely unrealistic
duncan barker

BBC News - Who'd Be a Web Scientist? - 3 views

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    Francessco... This may be interesting for the YGT in web technologies bit late now, but never mind.
Ma Ru

Centuries-old Spanish tradition in danger - 3 views

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    It starts to look more and more seriously... and ACT still haven't done anything to save it!
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    Siesta championship!! At least it's less dangerous than the Finnish sauna championship...
Joris _

Video: DARPA and Boeing's DiscRotor Retractable-Blade Heliplane | Popular Science - 3 views

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    a simple but innovative idea ...
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