February 2012
5 posts
Watchjtotheizzoe:
curiositycounts:
Stephen Colbert talks to Björk about her biophilia album iPad app and what inspired her interactive multimedia collection.
Biophilia previously here and here.
Okay, this seems really really cool!
January 2012
21 posts
It's Okay To Be Smart: Richard Nixon’s Never-Used... →
jtotheizzoe:
Richard Nixon’s Never-Used 1969 Speech In Case of Apollo 11 Disaster
Thankfully, not needed.
IN THE EVENT OF MOON DISASTER: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin,…
What about Michael Collins!?!?!?!?! The president was planing to pretend he...
hadron94: Test your Knowledge →
hadron94:
Quiz
Space, Time, and Mass
Motion along a Straight Line
Vectors
Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
Newton’s Laws of Motion
Further Applications of Newton’s Laws
Work and Energy
Conservation of Energy
Gravitation
Systems of Particles
Collisions
…
Graphene: Supermaterial Goes Superpermeable →
shychemist:
Wonder material graphene has revealed another of its extraordinary properties — University of Manchester researchers have found that it is superpermeable with respect to water.
Graphene is one of the wonders of the science world, with the potential to create foldaway mobile phones, wallpaper-thin lighting panels and the next generation of aircraft. The new finding at the...
Some of the world's most interesting minds answer:... →
jtotheizzoe:
From Edge.org. Great minds thinking about big things.
There’s literally too much win at this link to dutifully express it here.
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All... →
un:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
The program will not allow students to earn an M.I.T. degree. Instead, those who are able to exhibit a mastery of the subjects taught on the platform...
The communities taking renewable energy into their... →
There are now 43 communities who are in the process of or already producing renewable energy through co-operative structures. They are set up and run by everyday people – local residents mostly – who are investing their time and money and together installing solar panels, large wind turbines or hydro-electric power for their local communities.
The report highlights a series of examples....
One-Woman Math Squad: Help! →
mathsquad:
I want to start figuring out what area of math to study. I’m not sure if any mathematicians read me here, but if they do I’d love to hear about how you chose what to write your PhD thesis in and about what it’s like to study what you study.
In the absense of any grown-up mathematicians, maybe I…
like a physicist: Physicists propose test for loop... →
likeaphysicist:
As a quantum theory of gravity, loop quantum gravity could potentially solve one of the biggest problems in physics: reconciling general relativity and quantum mechanics. But like all tentative theories of quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity has never been experimentally tested. Now in a…
December 2011
16 posts
Looking for a book one of you all posted
Hey, I wan to get my 3 yr old niece this children’s book on Physics and the Universe and such that one of you posted, it had awesome illustrations and there was an online copy I read… ring any bells? Anyone? I will be forever grateful.
ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search... →
13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN1 today, the ATLAS2 and CMS3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive...
astrometry:
I just want to paint everything
Entangled diamonds blur quantum-classical divide |... →
scinerds:
Two diamonds as wide as earring studs have been made to share the spooky quantum state known as entanglement. The feat, performed at room temperature, blurs the divide between the classical and quantum worlds, since typically the quantum link has been made with much smaller particles at low temperatures.
Entanglement is one of the weird aspects of quantum mechanics, where the...
November 2011
13 posts
Faster-Than-Light Finding Still Holds . . . For... →
jtotheizzoe:
A more fine-tuned approach to the faster-than-light neutrino observations from CERN has given strength to the original claim. that subatomic particles can move faster than the speed of light.
Previously, OPERA scientists had clocked neutrinos arriving at a distant detector before the light pulse that accompanied them. This implied that they traveled faster than the speed of light,...
Physicists Create Light Out of Nothing →
Scientists have used a mirror to create light instead of just reflecting it. (iStockphoto)
“Scientists have used the spooky properties of quantum physics to create light out of empty space.
Researchers including Professor Tim Duty from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, used a strange phenomenon called the dynamical Casimir effect to force a mirror to make its own light rather than...
“We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found...”
– As true today as it was in 1951 …
There is much truth to be found here. Thanks to RealClimate for the link.
(via jtotheizzoe)
SciNerds: Superconductors are materials which... →
scinerd:
<Superconductors and Secrets>
Superconductors are materials which have exactly zero electrical resistance once the material is brought under a specific temperature. Due to this, they’re also commonly used in superconducting magnets (these being the strongest electromagnets in existence…
Ta da!
Alcohol, Retinol and a 50-Year Quest for the Male... →
jtotheizzoe:
50 years ago, an effective male contraceptive was developed using inmates from the Oregon State Penitentiary. But when it was given to men outside the prison walls, its combination with alcohol led to violent nausea and shortness of breath.
But did that reaction teach us something about how a male pill might work, five decades later?
Of course if it weren’t for alcohol, you...