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Madeline Rupard

Encounters at the End of the World - 0 views

www.imdb.com/tt1093824

science technology documentary film review

shared by Madeline Rupard on 05 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 05 Oct 10
     
    Well, there's snow on the mountains finally. I am one of the few people who smiles at the sight of white. I have this weird obsession with Antarctica and I want to say how greatly I adore this film I watched the other day. If you have any interest in cold places as I do, I HIGHLY recommend this beautiful film by Werner Herzog (director of Grizzly Man). Its not a simple Planet Earth documentary, but examines why all of these different people end up at the bottom of the world. And some of the under ice scuba diving is simply breathtaking. FYI, it's on instant view on netflix.
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    Wow! The pictures look amazing! I'm definitely going to look into it! Thanks for sharing!
Margaret Weddle

Bowditch Online - 1 views

www.irbs.com/bowditch

Bowditch navigation piloting tides time sailing oceans ice weather

shared by Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10
     
    The American Practical Navigator Great stuff, if you've ever had an inkling of an interest in sailing, oceans, weather, etc! Read the Juvinile Fiction book, "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" to understand what this is all about - an old neighbor (a Navy Submariner) told me that this book is part of the standard library on every Navy vessel! VERY interesting browsing, this!
  • Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10
     
    Cool stuff that goes with our selected book!
Shuan Pai

History Magazine - The Impact of Refrigeration - 0 views

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shared by Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Refrigeration brought distant production centers and the North American population together. It tore down the barriers of climates and seasons. And while it helped to rev up industrial processes, it became an industry itself.
    • Shuan Pai
      Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10
       
      Allowed all types of food to be made available year-round
  • Ice was harvested and stored in China before the first millennium. Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans placed large amounts of snow into storage pits and covered this cooling agent with insulating material.
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  • For centuries, people preserved and stored their food — especially milk and butter — in cellars, outdoor window boxes or even underwater in nearby lakes, streams or wells.
  • food preservation used time-tested methods: salting, spicing, smoking, pickling and drying.
  • Shuan Pai on 16 Nov 10
     
    how the invention of refrigerators affected society
Brandon McCloskey

Real-time computing goes from Wall Street to High Street - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11444051

digiciv economy

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • If the company could monitor sales of ice cream - or bottled water or sun tan cream - on hot days like this one and then gauge future demand, he said, it could alter the way the company behaved
  • Real-time - the act of responding to events as they happen - is changing the way that the world behaves.
  • The software has also been blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis. Computer programmes automatically sold stocks as fear spread in the markets, because their algorithms have built-in "sell" orders.
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  • SAP's software is also being deployed on offshore oil rigs and even in hospitals around the world. This allows diabetic patients, for example, to have their blood sugar levels monitored and insulin administered if it gets dangerously high.
  • Future applications that are being discussed include the military, such as real-time monitoring of troop and tank movements. StreamBase is already used by the US National Security Agency to monitor security threats. "It's difficult to think of an industry that isn't affected by real-time," Mr Palmer says.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How real-time computing is affecting economics
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