Monthly Archives: October 2014
My picks, 27
These are the articles and videos from the previous week I found most interesting. The Largest Fully Steerable Telescope in the World Candy Corn In Space Light seconds, light years, light centuries: How to measure extreme distances Cold Water Test Super Earths: 10 Major Discoveries A Cameraman’s Wild Encounter With Bears in Alaska Hitler’s Secret […]
My picks, 26
These are the articles and videos from the previous week I found most interesting. Sunset Solar Eclipse How to Make Quark Soup Michio Kaku Warning on the Decline of Science in America Earth From Space Danny Macaskill: The Ridge Nuclear Catastrophe: How Much Risk are You Willing to Accept? Cave art in the tropics 2014 […]
In the arts of death
And is Man any the less destroying himself for all this boasted brain of his? Have you walked up and down upon the earth lately? I have; and I have examined Man’s wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes […]
My picks, 25
These are the articles and videos from the previous week I found most interesting. Swift Catches Mega Flares from a Mini Star Next Big Thing – Wearables that are changing lives Swimming with Snakes: Biologist Marion Pullman One of Nature’s Most Amazing Sights To create for the ages, let’s combine art and engineering Stories of […]
My picks, 24
These are the articles and videos from the previous week I found most interesting. Who Decided to Put 60 Seconds in a Minute? Which State Looks the Most Like Mars? Drone Footage of Iceland Volcano Eruption Supermassive Black Holes: 10 Astounding Facts Face-Off With a Deadly Predator PlanetQuest Timeline Handpose: Fully Articulated Hand Tracking Nancy […]
Interesting Fact about Brain Scanning
Modern brain scanning techniques like functional MRI generate voxels, or 3-dimensional cubes, sized approximately 1 cubic millimeter per voxel. To describe human brain requires over 1 million voxels. To see all synapses in a single voxel it is necessary to generate 2,000 terabytes of data, or 2 petabytes per cubic millimeter. That equates to 2 […]
My picks, 23
These are the articles and videos from the previous week I found most interesting. Undecidability Tangent What’s next in 3D printing When NASA Lost a Spacecraft Because It Didn’t Use Metric Hubble and the Bermuda Triangle of space The Dance of the Peacock Spider Multi-Person 3D system How to reinvent the apartment building Richard Feynman […]
Alan Tatourian 