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Monitoring earthquakes with satellites

alexziller — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:51 +0000

Italian Scientists from INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) use the latest images from the European Space Agency to map recent fault displacement. —> Risultati Preliminari SAR - First Results SAR (in italian) Envisat ASAR interferogram (01 Feb 2009 / 12 April 2009) (Courtesy of IREA-CNR) a simple explanation of the concept here: “While the fault and the earthquake [...]

a Solar Cooker to save the world?

alexziller — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:40:24 +0000

Jon Bohmer [photo] has invented a cheap, solar-powered cardboard cooker for rural Africa called the Kyoto Box. The invention seems to be very useful and promising. The Kyoto Box, a $6 solar cooker made from cardboard, has won the Financial Times-sponsored Climate Change Challenge. Black paint on the inner box, and silver foil on the outer one, help concentrate [...]

predicting wars with maths

alexziller — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:21:35 +0000

for those of you who are sceptic about Psychohistory: ********************************************** Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence May Lim, Richard Metzler, and Yaneer Bar-Yam* ScienceMagazine - September 2007 [the link requires a subscription to sciencemag.org, but you can ask the article per email to the authors from here)] *New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) Abstract:We identify a process of global pattern formation [...]

“Le magnifiche sorti e progressive”

MaxLai — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:34:20 +0000

For all those who want a first-hand opinion on all that is going on in Gaza, http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com a blog (in Italian) by Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist who lives in the strip.

Happy New Year, China!

alexziller — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:07:17 +0000

Today I woke up noticing my Chinese neighbours being quite excited. They were setting the laptop in the kitchen and trying to watch the main chinese tv channel (CCTV) through the internet. What’s going on here? - they look at me quite surprised -come on you don’t know? today is new year’s eve in China! For [...]

quote of the week - B.Obama on Science

alexziller — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:44:34 +0000

“..We will restore Science to its rightful place, and wield Technology’s wonders..” Barak Obama, 44th President of United States of America. Analyzing Obama’s inauguration speech (interactive video + transcript from NYtimes.com)

W. Heisenberg, “Physics and philosophy”- Review

MaxLai — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:39:09 +0000

Hello Physics&Philosophy Freaks ! ... this is the first post of my old friend Max, bio-engineer with a passion for physics and "itself" an advanced positronic brain. But he missed the proper name of HeiseNberg, probably due to the uncertainty principle... ..btw, if you don't know Heisenberg&Co, either you commit directly suicide or you just do it after watching "Electrons Are Weird" ..[ anyway this nice vid from BBC is also recommended to all of you] c h e .. r s! :-) AZ *********************************************************************** W. HeiseMberg, "Physics and philosophy" (Der Teil und das Ganze,1954) The author of this book doesn't even need a presentation. The style is definitely very smooth and accessible, and fancy maths is removed altogether. The purpose of the whole essay (written in 1954) was to give a summary about how the evolution of physics, throughout the centuries, was able to revolutionise the very idea of reality, and how the early cartesian "Weltanschaung" heavily influenced the successive development of natural sciences and of the scientific method itself. The first chapters are a fast-paced summary of 2500 years of epistemology (philosophy of knowledge), from the

le lumache - (il primo post di Mik!)

Mik — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:35:57 +0000

Signore & Signori, Homini e Donne sapiens sapiens sapiens, Amanti, A-Mantidi e Procarioti, ecco a voi il Mik, talento introspettiv-nucleare-darwiniano, affabile et ironico, mai casualmente maldestro, e da oggi esimio collaboratore di Tecnopolis.. basta non indulgiamo oltre.. viel Spass! AZ ****************************************************************************************************************** È ora di basta con queste informazioni inutili sugli elicotteri mai costruiti [o sui video fantaidealisti dello [...]

Floating weightless…

alexziller — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:54:56 +0000

I cannot resist to post this beautiful video on Tecnopolis. It merges one of the most beautiful song of the 80s with one of the most beautiful film ever. Beauty, like reality, is multidimensional, but human beings usually focus on just one dimension. Try to catch new dimensions of beauty and your joy will grow exponentially.. enjoy! [...]

Happy New Year !!!

alexziller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:18:55 +0000

Happy New Year from Tecnopolis!