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Slashdot Science Story | Calculating Environmental Damage From Space Tourism Rockets - 3 views

science.slashdot.org/...age-From-Space-Tourism-Rockets technology green environment danger rockets
shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 02 Nov 10
     
    Cynthia - please have a look ... can we check the OoM?
  • Juxi Leitner on 05 Nov 10
     
    http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101022/full/news.2010.558.html hmm should be the ACT in Nature, no? ;)
  • Ma Ru on 05 Nov 10
     
    Yeeesss :) So the "non-commercial" rockets do not emit soot? And how many "non-commercial" launches per year are there in comparison to the commercial ones? Finally commercial space-flight seems more realisable than ever, and "non-commercial" guys will do everything to prevent situation in which they have to compete on an open market... Coming years should be very interesting...
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Apple sending Xserve to giant server farm in the sky - 3 views

arstechnica.com/...pro-server-takes-its-place.ars apple inf
shared by Francesco Biscani on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • After more than eight years on the market, Apple is euthanizing the Xserve.
  • Francesco Biscani on 05 Nov 10
     
    YES YES YES! And good riddance! :)
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Another Facebook for Scientists... - 3 views

academia.edu inf Web 2.0 science
shared by Ma Ru on 10 Nov 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 13 Nov 10
     
    not overwhelming ....
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iWrite - 3 views

www.vancapy.com/iWrite fun computer INF
shared by LeopoldS on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 Nov 10
     
    another reason to buy an ipad .... :-)
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  • Francesco Biscani on 16 Nov 10
     
    How is this any different from the slew of existing WYSISYG LaTeX-based editors? E.g., http://www.texmacs.org/
  • duncan barker on 17 Nov 10
     
    wow!!!!!!!!!!!! you can write equations!!!!!!!!!!
  • Ma Ru on 17 Nov 10
     
    "What you need: - A LaTeX installation" I guess you can buy one in Apple Store... no?
  • LeopoldS on 17 Nov 10
     
    my understanding is that it runs on your other computer who would do all the compiling ....
  • LeopoldS on 17 Nov 10
     
    texmacs ... and how do you install this on the iPad?
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A Phase Transition for Light | Physical Review Focus - 3 views

focus.aps.org/st19 phy liquid_light electromagnetism
shared by pacome delva on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • A computer simulation shows the transition from "fermionic" to "liquid" light.
  • The possibility of sending this type of "self-focused" light pulse long distances could be important for remote sensing applications, such as LIDAR, which uses laser light the way radar uses radio waves.
  • LeopoldS on 23 Nov 10
     
    what the heck is this?? sounds really strange but highly interesting to me ....
  • LeopoldS on 23 Nov 10
     
    can we use this for energy transmission?
  • LeopoldS on 23 Nov 10
     
    read it now more carefully and the answer is probably no ...
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Edge 333 - 3 views

www.edge.org/...edge333.html technology science fun
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  • LeopoldS on 27 Nov 10
     
    very nice collection ...
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NASA news conference Dec. 2, on extraterrestrial life?! - 3 views

www.nasa.gov/...M10-110.html space BIO fun
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  • Christos Ampatzis on 01 Dec 10
     
    Let's start betting which party Aliens vote: GREEN, BLUE, RED, BLACK?
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  • Luís F. Simões on 01 Dec 10
     
    yes, the internet is going crazy over this one :) (http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/nasas-astrobiology-press-conference/) This is the most likely scenario I've seen so far for what will be announced tomorrow: http://skymania.com/wp/2010/11/alien-life-form-is-here-on-earth.html/ "...discovery of microbes in a deadly poisonous lake that get their energy from arsenic. Experts say this shows they had a completely different origin to any other creature known on our planet. It means that life began not just once but at least twice on Earth."
  • Joris _ on 02 Dec 10
     
    well, we've all seen the movie Evolution (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/) ;p ... this is exactly this scenario indeed.
  • Ma Ru on 02 Dec 10
     
    yaaawnnn... Let's wait until they actually announce it.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 02 Dec 10
     
    http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ for the moment is down. My bet, the microbe they found notified its cousins and they are currently invading the US
  • Luís F. Simões on 02 Dec 10
     
    you can still see the rest of it here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html a good link with a summary and discussion on the announcement is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/02/nasa-life-form-bacteria-arsenic
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Wikileaks FAQ :: The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It - 3 views

futureoftheinternet.org/wikileaks-cable-faq INF
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  • LeopoldS on 08 Dec 10
     
    nice FAQ
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Augmented reality translation app - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch
shared by Kevin de Groote on 17 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 Dec 10
     
    only english and spanish ... :-(
  • Kevin de Groote on 07 Sep 11
     
    as discussed during lunch..
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A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem | Science/AAAS - 3 views

www.sciencemag.org/...183.abstract BIO science
shared by LeopoldS on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 18 Jan 11
     
    .... sounds interesting
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cost-utility analysis of abolishing the law of gravity - 3 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...20071204s00038p1536.pdf anti-gravity
shared by Giusi Schiavone on 19 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Giusi Schiavone on 19 Jan 11
     
    Crazy and funny
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Turning Microsoft's $150 Kinect Into a $50,000 Piece of Surgical Equipment | Popular Sc... - 3 views

www.popsci.com/...50000-piece-surgical-equipment kinect
shared by Dario Izzo on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 20 Jan 11
     
    We must enter thr kinect hacks business!! We will hear a lot about this technology in 2011
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Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video) - 3 views

www.physorg.com/...entists-cold-fusion-video.html cold fusion science
shared by santecarloni on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 25 Jan 11
     
    mah...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 25 Jan 11
     
    Perhaps they measured the "cold fusion" of Berlusconi with his girls. But that's not that cold, as it seems...
  • santecarloni on 25 Jan 11
     
    ...that is definitely HOT... ...on the other hand I don't think it would be fusion since it does not seems to produce any bound state... double mystery :)
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YouTube - 7 digital trends at Davos 2011 [World Economic Forum talk] - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch technology INF
shared by LeopoldS on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • dejanpetkow on 28 Jan 11
     
    I like the iToilet. In Japan this technology is used since many years, even on public places. In this sense, the electrified toilet is a trend only in western countries.
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Macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light : Nature Communications : Nature Pub... - 3 views

www.nature.com/...ncomms1176.html invisibility PHY science
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  • LeopoldS on 02 Feb 11
     
    and all this without magic metamaterials ...
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 02 Feb 11
     
    Wellwellwell! I don't know how I have to complain, since I could not yet read the full article, but I'm sure I will :-).
  • Luzi Bergamin on 02 Feb 11
     
    It's funny to see how people get more and more humble in the desperate attempt to save their stupid ideas... At the beginning was the brave and bold aim to cloak something in free space (in a sphere or a cylinder). This requires inhomogeneous, anisotropic, magnetic materials; hopeless!! So one reduces to one polarization, now we have inhomogenous, anisotropic materials; still hopeless! At this point one downgraded the pretension: instead of cloaking in free space, we make a "carpet cloak" and hide an object behind an invisible dent in a mirror. But if that shall be continuous, we still need inhomogeneity and this is very hard. So now instead of a dent we take a cone and then it is claimed to work ... for ONE polarization. But of course the cloak can't work at all incident angles... irony of fate: everything is now made from birefringent media, the antithesis of what the metamaterials dogma was at the beginning!
  • jmlloren on 04 Feb 11
     
    Hi Luzi, can you please send me the paper. We are writing a project based on sulfates and carbonates, and all this BS sounds great for the introduction (The authors used Calcite as birefringent material)
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http://www.iseclab.org/papers/egele-ndss11.pdf - 3 views

www.iseclab.org/...egele-ndss11.pdf INF technology
shared by LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11
     
    check your iPhone / iPod
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Carrier Testing for Severe Childhood Recessive Diseases by Next-Generation Sequencing -... - 3 views

www.sciencemedicine.org/...65ra4.short genomics bio INF
shared by LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11
     
    scary but very likely development ... blessing in disguise?
  • LeopoldS on 06 Feb 11
     
    scary but very likely development ... blessing in disguise?
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