April 2009
117 posts
Leo Vuyk - Fractal Physics →
crackpot or… I like the atom diagram…
Biomedical Computation Review: Reverse Engineering... →
Edelman, Markram, Modha
Maximize multicore performance with content aware... →
Rudimentary CCN at the hardware level.
0_quiz_scale_big.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000x279 pixels) →
Nice diagram showing scale from quarks to the observable universe.
Success: 1) Passion 2) Work 3) Good 4) Focus 5) Push 6) Serve 7) Ideas 8) Persist
3 New Pieces of Music - Vox →
PIRSA - Interview with a Physicist →
Summit on Grand Challenges - The Big Ideas Panel →
A Beacon from the Invisible Universe →
Say hello to the youngest object ever discovered in the Universe (and click to enlarge), Gamma Ray Burst GRB 090423, born when the Universe was under 0.7 billion years old, and discovered just 5 days…
The Closest Kuiper Belt Object →
Everyone knows the Solar System, right? Sun at the center, followed by the four, rocky inner planets, the asteroid belt[nucleus], the four outer gas giants with their moons, and then the Kuiper…
PIRSA - Where quantum meets logic, . . . in a... →
Bob Coecke
YouTube - Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha:... →
One woman, eight hilarious characters →
Ripple’s preferred syntax is now entirely postfix-based, and includes various constructions for “forward” and “backward” application of mappings, as well as for regular expressions.
Science Mug 2 > Abstruse Goose →
SCIENCE: If you ain’t pissin’ people off, you ain’t doin’ it right. This is based on http://abstrusegoose.com/47
arrows and regex →
Ripple’s preferred syntax is now entirely postfix-based, and includes various constructions for “forward” and “backward” application of mappings, as well as for regular expressions.
Success in 8 words →
Richard St. John gave a three-minute presentation at TED on the secrets of success, summarizing his interviews of 500 successful people. His outline: 1. Passion 2. Work 3. Good 4. Focus 5. Push 6….
University of Sydney IPOS spreading propaganda that one Google search equals one boiled kettle. Sigh http://is.gd/vvZA
Nanowire network measures cells' electrical... →
The method uses a device called a nanowire field effect transistor (NWFET). This consists of a silicon wire just 20 nanometres in diameter attached to metal electrodes on a substrate of silicon…
Make: Online : MAKE presents: The Diode →
Using the STEAM camera they were able to image the... →
In other words, the camera took a picture once every 163 nanoseconds. The camera could be used for studies of combustion, laser cutting and any system that changes quickly and unpredictably. One…
Quantum computers get commercial – and hackable -... →
Quantum cryptography flaws. [There is no such thing as privacy. Researchers should all learn Taken’s Theorem]
AMIMON's second-gen WHDI spec does full... →
AMIMON, the company behind the wireless HD technology (WHDI) in Belkin’s FlyWire (among other devices), has just introduced its second-generation chipset. The device, which utilizes video modem…
YouTube - (m)Arcadia: Manil Suri explains the... →
Talk about a play on fractals.
Gram Speakers are solar-powered, fit in your... →
Listening to your fave tunes while cavorting on a sun-splashed beach could get a lot more convenient if Finnish designer Pekka Salokannel has his way. His design concept for solar-powered Gram…
Prodding an ion's buttock improves quantum memory... →
The researchers applied this technique to a cloud of ultracold ions. First, a laser was used to set the cold ions into a predetermined state. Left to themselves, these ions would interact with the…
"Geoffrey West" - Google Video →
Nanophysicists find unexpected magnetic effect →
Single-atom contacts made of ferromagnetic metals like iron, cobalt and nickel behave very differently than do slightly larger versions that are on the order of the devices used in today’s electronic…
Installing Debian (ARM) on QEMU | Your Electronics... →
Space explosion is farthest thing ever seen -... →
13 billions light years away. NASA’s Swift satellite first detected the ten-second-long gamma-ray burst in the early morning on April 23, and quickly swung about to point its Ultraviolet/Optical and…
Glutamate identified as predictor of disease... →
Elevated levels of glutamate in the brain are understood clinically as a cause of cell injury and death. Injury to neuro-axons, which are the long fibers that extend from the cell body of a neuron…
Global-Scaling Institute | Theory →
Historical survey of scale invariant findings.
The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology... →
towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization
Are Cities Just Very Large Organisms? [Yes] |... →
Emergent “universal” invariants, suggest that fundamental constraints underly much of the coarse-grained generic structure and organisation of living systems. [Fractals towatch(again? I think I’ve…
Logicomix →
Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics.
Autism genes discovered; help shape connections... →
Researchers found that children with ASDs (autism spectrum disorder) were more likely than healthy controls to have gene variants on a particular region of chromosome 5. That region is located…
Exploring Life's Origins: Resources for Educators →
download these
Intel Software Network Blogs » JeOS and Cloud →
JeOS is the abbreviation of Just Enough Operating system (pronounced as “juice”) uses a different approach from the traditional one-size-fits-all Operating systems. It is a highly customized…
P2P Lending Marketplace Prosper Gets Off The... →
Research what needs to be done for worldwide securities approval, or how to avoid it. :)
arthur kessler holons - Google Search →
spiral dynamics - Google Search →
ken wilbur a brief history of everything - Google... →
Penn Medicine, CHOP researchers demonstrate first... →
In a second study, researchers found deleted or duplicated genes along two major central nervous system gene networks in children with autism spectrum disorders. The changes were on the ubiquitin…
Time matters. E = MC^2 Energy is currency.
YouTube - Smoke Detector and Glow Powder... →
Visualising alpha particles radiated from Americium, used in smoke detectors, with a microscope.
Novelties - Eyeglasses With a Digital Dimension -... →
Light-emitting laser diodes in the projector, stored in the side of the frame, shoot their highly concentrated beams forward to the eyeglass surface. There, computerized, transparent devices called…
Technology Review: Videos →
Pneumatic “blow up” transparent touch screen membrane for feedback. Pressure sensors for feedforward.
Gene variant found in 65% of autism cases - health... →
The gene lies between two other genes called CAD 10 and CAD 9, which encode adhesion molecules that enable neurons to connect and communicate with one another – and CAD 10 is already known to be…
NOVA | Hunting the Hidden Dimension | Watch the... →
Fractals
Brain works best when cells keep right rhythms,... →
Precisely tuning the oscillation frequencies of certain neurons can affect how the brain processes information and implements feelings of reward.
ausinnovation.org “server out of memory.” innovate or die trying? :)