Classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan moment…
As a recent article from Wired Science puts it, “one way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem.” So, they interviewed Cal Tech physicist Sean Carroll about his talk at the recent meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science.
Carroll’s latest book “From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of [...]
I highlighted a really cool article from the latest Wired Magazine on compressive sensing in my previous post. But there are three other cool items that are worth catching your eyes on:
- If you dig movies (I mean, you doesn’t!?), then this is kinda fun to fill in the blanks on some famous movie lines. Here’s the article called Bit [...]
A very cool article on what’s called “compressive sensing” is featured in the latest issue of Wired Magazine. It turns out that our company (Areté Associates) has really been at the forefront of exploiting this technology (I’ve even worked with some great guys to develop a patent based on these approaches…).
Here’s the article on how amazingly impressive the technology is.
OK – so this is pretty cool…
Today it was announced that astromoners have just observed the light directly from a planet outside our solar system. Previously, scientists have never been able to observe a planet directly (like we can in our own solar system by looking through a telescope) - only indirectly through its eclipse signatures as it moves between us [...]
Here’s an article showing pictures from the Hubble Telescope taken of the very, very early universe. The galaxies have stars that are only about 600 million to 800 million years old – about as far back as the Hubble Telescope can see (the universe itself is about 13.7 billion years old…).
I saw this video and I thought it was pretty cool – had to forward it along… Try some of these tricks yourself! (I think pouring the carbon dioxide to extinguish the candles is fantastic!…)
Somehow I got on the mailing list for ThinkGeek (probably because, well, I get geeky science magazines like Wired…). But I found myself thinking that this was the coolest, geekiest stuff I’d ever seen in one place.
For example, I mentioned in another post about the Star Wars Force Trainer, where you can raise a ball with your mind.
But wait, there’s [...]
