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Dario Izzo

Project 10^100 winners - 6 views

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    Five great innovative initiatives already happening
Nicholas Lan

ignobel winners 2010 - 2 views

shared by Nicholas Lan on 14 Oct 10 - Cached
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    cheers to luca for pointing out the management one. netlogo model "demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random."
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    do you trust netlogo for this? :-)
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    for the ignobel or the random promotions ? :P
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    Nah... Marek's recognition reward definitively goes to: "Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men" (...) WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Manuel S. Barbeito was unable to travel, due to health reasons. :D
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    The page itself should be awarded with the ugliest layout. I have suggested to our management the implementation of the random promotion. Perhaps it is the future of democracy: representatives chosen at random.
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    you mean "your management" at your current place?
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    Yes, it is not what is written? Indeed, it is already implemented. You are talking with the director of the Institute. I have been unlucky with the toss.
Joris _

China kicks off manned space station program - 2 views

  • to complete construction of a "relatively large" manned space laboratory around 2020
Joris _

Robot's space debut 'giant leap for tinmankind' - 2 views

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    a robot Juxi talked about in a report, soon in the ISS
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    They made him mute so that he can't say at some point "I'm afraid I can't do that, Barratt"...
Joris _

LaTeX Search - Mathematical Equations in Scientific Publications. - 2 views

shared by Joris _ on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
LeopoldS liked it
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    can be helpful ... but also very tricky. There are so many ways to write the same equation...
Christos Ampatzis

Rates of Scientific Fraud Retractions - 6 views

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    Good to see "The Netherlands" not in the top list... Btw Fraud detection becoming hot potato in EU funding...
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    not surprising since usually EC staff has no clue what people do with their funds once the are allocated ... as long as there is a report and a website :-)
santecarloni

Team:Hong Kong-CUHK/Project - 2010.igem.org - 2 views

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    impressive...
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    not sure how to understand this: " Employing a specially people are denied access to obtain the information." ...
santecarloni

[1011.6263] Electrostatic accelerometer with bias rejection for Gravitation and Solar S... - 6 views

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    Is it really true?
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    Article 1011.6263 doesn't exist
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    ha it's back! Yes they are talking about GAP since some time in France, and lobbying to put it on a planetary mission.
pacome delva

How to walk through walls - 6 views

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    and yet another TO nonsense... And why always Harry Potter, dont't these darn scientists have more imagination or is their intellectual level just as low as being unable to read more complex literature than J.K. Rawling?? btw.: how about this skype session on TO, Leo?
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    Combine it with touchable holography (search for SIGGRAPH 2009 at youtube) and name it Holosuite 0.1.
jmlloren

Vote for the Most Inspiring Astronomical Photo of the Year - 2 views

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    My vote goes to the weird dunescape on Mars
nikolas smyrlakis

Good-Bye Alta-Vista, Delicious | ZDNet - 2 views

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 17 Dec 10 - No Cached
LeopoldS liked it
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    we were 1,5 year ahead to switch to diigo !
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    Man, I remember, long long time ago, altavista was my first contact with the internet ever.
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    indeed ... and it was largely thanks to you ... remember well the discussion in the group meeting with the arguments brought forward: why change, it works ...
Ma Ru

Another Obligatory Part of the ACT Dress Code - 6 views

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    Prices in UK oscillate between 200 and 300 GBP
Francesco Biscani

The Semicolon Wars » American Scientist - 2 views

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    Pretty interesting piece on computer languages.
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    Yes, very good, but I don't get what all the fuss is about... everyone knows Python is the ultimate programming language! :) Follow up reading: If programming languages were religions... (quite accurate actually) Great quote from the article you linked to: In 1975 Edsger W. Dijkstra, a major figure in the structured-programming movement, wrote a memo titled "How Do We Tell Truths that Might Hurt?" The "truths" were mostly Dijkstra's opinions of programming languages; how he told them was very bluntly. Fortran is "an infantile disorder," PL/I "a fatal disease," APL "a mistake, carried through to perfection." Students exposed to COBOL "are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration," he said. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
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    Fool! You can pry my templates from my cold dead hands!
Dario Izzo

paper shoving the advantages of morphological changes during artificial evolution - 2 views

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    Might be worth looking at for our project on evolution of gaits at different gravity level
santecarloni

Is Vat-Grown Meat Organic? | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine - 2 views

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    .... ""It will be functional, natural, designed food," Mironov said. "How do you want it to taste? You want a little bit of fat, you want pork, you want lamb? We design exactly what you want. We can design texture."" sure ....
Nicholas Lan

prediction markets - 2 views

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    talking of interesting business models - > futures markets for whether or not despots will still be in power by the end of the year. Markets>Foreign Affiars/International security
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    "Challenge the Intrade Crowd with Your Wisdom"... Yeah...
Joris _

Cosmic Log - Volunteers find another prize pulsar - 2 views

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    like the profiles ... "The clearest evidence for the pulsar's existence was provided by computers operated by two volunteers: Vitaly Shiryaev, a Russian researcher who has a Ph.D. in radio physics; and Stacey Eastham, who does vehicle testing for the British government in Darwen. In his profile, Eastham says he's studying astronomy and physics on the side. He got involved in the Einstein @ Home project because he's interested in "anything space-like, and being able to be part of something like this is right up my street."
Luís F. Simões

Shell energy scenarios to 2050 - 6 views

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    just in case you were feeling happy and optimistic
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    An energy scenario published by an oil company? Allow me to be sceptical...
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    Indeed, Shell is an energy company, not just oil, for some time now ... The two scenarii are, in their approach, dependant of economic and political situation, which is right now impossible to forecast. Reference to Kyoto is surprising, almost out-dated! But overall, I find it rather optimistic at some stages, and probably the timeline (p37-39) is unlikely with recent events.
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    the report was published in 2008, which explains the reference to Kyoto, as the follow-up to it was much more uncertain at that point. The Blueprint scenario is indeed optimistic, but also quite unlikely I'd say. I don't see humanity suddenly becoming so wise and coordinated. Sadly, I see something closer to the Scramble scenario as much more likely to occur.
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    not an oil company??? please have a look at the percentage of their revenues coming from oil and gas and then compare this with all their other energy activities together and you will see very quickly that it is only window dressing ... they are an oil and gas company ... and nothing more
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    not JUST oil. From a description: "Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies." Of course revenues coming from oil are the biggest, the investment turnover on other energy sources is small for now. Knowing that most of their revenues is from an expendable source, to guarantee their future, they invest elsewhere. They have invested >1b$ in renewable energy, including biofuels. They had the largest wind power business among so-called "oil" companies. Oil only defines what they do "best". As a comparison, some time ago, Apple were selling only computers and now they sell phones. But I would not say Apple is just a phone company.
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    window dressing only ... e.g. Net cash from operating activities (pre-tax) in 2008: 70 Billion$ net income in 2008: 26 Billion revenues in 2008: 88 Billion Their investments and revenues in renewables don't even show up in their annual financial reports since probably they are under the heading of "marketing" which is already 1.7 Billion $ ... this is what they report on their investments: Capital investment, portfolio actions and business development Capital investment in 2009 was $24 billion. This represents a 26% decrease from 2008, which included over $8 billion in acquisitions, primarily relating to Duvernay Oil Corp. Capital investment included exploration expenditure of $4.5 billion (2008: $11.0 billion). In Abu Dhabi, Shell signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to extend the GASCO joint venture for a further 20 years. In Australia, Shell and its partners took the final investment decision (FID) for the Gorgon LNG project (Shell share 25%). Gorgon will supply global gas markets to at least 2050, with a capacity of 15 million tonnes (100% basis) of LNG per year and a major carbon capture and storage scheme. Shell has announced a front-end engineering and design study for a floating LNG (FLNG) project, with the potential to deploy these facilities at the Prelude offshore gas discovery in Australia (Shell share 100%). In Australia, Shell confirmed that it has accepted Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s entitlement offer of new shares at a total cost of $0.8 billion, maintaining its 34.27% share in the company; $0.4 billion was paid in 2009 with the remainder paid in 2010. In Bolivia and Brazil, Shell sold its share in a gas pipeline and in a thermoelectric power plant and its related assets for a total of around $100 million. In Canada, the Government of Alberta and the national government jointly announced their intent to contribute $0.8 billion of funding towards the Quest carbon capture and sequestration project. Quest, which is at the f
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    thanks for the info :) They still have their 50% share in the wind farm in Noordzee (you can see it from ESTEC on a clear day). Look for Shell International Renewables, other subsidiaries and joint-ventures. I guess, the report is about the oil branch. http://sustainabilityreport.shell.com/2009/servicepages/downloads/files/all_shell_sr09.pdf http://www.noordzeewind.nl/
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    no - its about Shell globally - all Shell .. these participations are just peanuts please read the intro of the CEO in the pdf you linked to: he does not even mention renewables! their entire sustainability strategy is about oil and gas - just making it (look) nicer and environmentally friendlier
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    Fair enough, for me even peanuts are worthy and I am not able to judge. Not all big-profit companies, like Shell, are evil :( Look in the pdf what is in the upstream and downstream you mentionned above. Non-shell sources for examples and more objectivity: http://www.nuon.com/company/Innovative-projects/noordzeewind.jsp http://www.e-energymarket.com/news/single-news/article/ferrari-tops-bahrain-gp-using-shell-biofuel.html thanks.
Luís F. Simões

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon | Video on TED.com - 2 views

  • When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.
Luzi Bergamin

Gesture controlled Linux Desktop - 6 views

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    Demo of a Linux Desktop controlled by a PS3 move controller.
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