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Ambigrams video

Gluon — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:42:41 +0000

This video is a good way to undertand ambigrams.
Its very interesting to use this kind of thechnics in logo design.

Created by Mara Ang Chong Lai.

Petição para Open Access

Gluon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:15:52 +0000

Recebi e achei importante.

Dear PLoS Letter Signers,

We are writing to you because you signed the PLoS open letter some years
ago urging scientific publishers to allow the research reports that have
appeared in their journals to be distributed freely by independent,
online public libraries of science. As you supported that initiative we
are now asking you to support a further one that will encourage the
European Commission to take action that will secure vastly increased
access to publicly-funded science output. Professor Harold Varmus, Nobel
laureate and co-originator of the PLoS open letter, has already put his
name to the petition and we encourage you to follow his lead.

In the wake of the publication of the report from the “EU Study on the
Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets
of Europe” a consortium of organisations working in the scholarly
communication arena is sponsoring a petition to the European Commission
to demonstrate support for Open Access and for the recommendations in
the report.

Signatures may be added on behalf of individuals or institutions.

Please register your support for Open Access in this way. To sign the
petition, please go to http://www.ec-petition.eu/

The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information Systems
Committee, UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsches
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og
Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark).

Warm regards,

Mark Patterson
Director of Publishing

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http://www.ec-petition.eu/

Metalosis Maligna, a fictitious documentary

Gluon — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:53:57 +0000

The mockumentary is presented as if it were a documentary, though it is not factual.
Metalosis Maligna is a mockumentary about a spectacular yet chronically disabling disease which affects patients who have been fitted with medical implants.
Graphic and potentially disturbing images.

Abacus fast math

Gluon — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:24:56 +0000

Amazing fast calculations.
But not free lunch… it is a result of two hours practice each day.
Quick but not so easy.

Tags: math, abacus, calculations, tokyo,

The selfish green

Gluon — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:33:39 +0000

The Selfish Green was the opening event of Wildscreen 2004, a landmark debate on the future of conservation led by Jonathan Dimbleby with Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins, Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Richard Leakey.
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/06/selfish-green.html (video)
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13 rocket explosions videos

Gluon — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:51:44 +0000

Rocket Explosion CNN

Rocket Explosion CNN 2

Complete NASA Footage of Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion

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Columbia Re-Entry Analysis

Rocket Engine Explosion (Sep 26, 1990) #1

Rocket Engine Explosion (Sep 26, 1990) #2

Rocket Engine Explosion (Jun 18, 1992) #2

Rocket Engine Explosion (Jun 18, 1992) #1

More
Mooore
Ariane 5 France

China explosion

Rocket Fuel Plant Explosion

Thermite

Gluon — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:35:54 +0000

A thermite reaction is a type of aluminothermic reaction in which aluminium metal is oxidized by the oxide of another metal, most commonly iron oxide.
The thermite reaction is an exceedingly dangerous reaction and should only be performed by a trained chemical professional capable of assessing the risks.
A thermite reaction generates large amounts of ultraviolet radiation and is extremely exothermic.
Pictures and videos
www.amazingrust.com/Experiments/how_to/Thermite_pics-videos.html

Research Channel

Gluon — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:24:59 +0000

ResearchChannel is a nonprofit media and technology organization that connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures.
An intellectual community, ResearchChannel was founded in 1996 by leading research and academic institutions so they could share the work of their researchers with the public. These ideas are shared in their original form — unmediated and without interruption. Today, more than 50 participating members and affiliates provide all programming, and that number continues to grow.
http://www.researchchannel.org/

Millikan’s experiment and cargo cult science

Gluon — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:56:07 +0000

Richard Feynman said in a commencement lecture he gave at Caltech in 1974:

We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It’s a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It’s interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan’s, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

Why didn’t they discover the new number was higher right away? It’s a thing that scientists are ashamed of – this history – because it’s apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan’s, they thought something must be wrong – and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan’s value they didn’t look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that. We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that kind of a disease.
Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-drop_experiment

Google Finance

Gluon — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:40:01 +0000

Google on Tuesday introduced Google Finance, a beta web site that offers much of the same data as Yahoo and Microsoft, but also provides information on many privately held companies.

http://finance.google.com/