Friday, June 28, 2013

NASA | IRIS: The Science of NASA's Newest Solar Explorer

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At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its newest mission to watch the sun: the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. IRI...

Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it.....

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Iris-Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

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This graphic shows the IRIS observatory with the solar arrays removed. The orange section to the left is the spacecraft bus which includ...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Olay to Divine Inspiration

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I think one needs to draw a distinction here with regard to what consciousness is able to access, given the understanding that information a...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Freeman Dyson: 98 - Summer school at Les Houches

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Born in England in 1923, Freeman Dyson moved to Cornell University after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Mathematics...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Tacit Knowledge

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Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge ) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another ...

Musical Acoustics

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A recipe for a violin Chladni patterns show the geometry of the different types of vibration of violin plat...

Cool horizons for entangled black holes

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Schwarzschild wormholes General relativity contains solutions in which two distant black holes are connected through the interior ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Time Begins, When Counting Begins?

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Like Copernicus' heliocentric theory, Newton's law of gravitation, and Darwin's theory of evolution, non-Euclidean geometry ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Quantum Biology and the Hidden of Nature

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Can the spooky world of quantum physics explain bird navigation, photosynthesis and even our delicate sense of smell? Clues are mounting t...