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Beautifully Obvious

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:52:32 GMT

This is a guest post by Jonathan Shuler, the multimedia journalist behind our latest video profiling some of the people behind the haiti.ushahidi.com. URL: Beautifully Obvious

Call For Scientific Research Code To Be Released

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:18:09 GMT

Professor Ince, writing in the Guardian, has issued a call for scientists to make the code they use in the course of their research publicly available. He focuses specifically on the topical controversies in climate science, and concludes with the view that researchers who are able but unwilling to release programs they use should not be regarded as scientists. URL: Call For Scientific Research Code To Be Released

YouTube 3D

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:46:52 GMT

YouTube test a stereoscopic player for watching videos in 3D. If you go to this video, you'll notice a drop-down that includes some options for red/cyan and amber/blue 3D glasses and some options that don't require glasses. URL: YouTube 3D

Google Translate Equilibrium

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:45:37 GMT

A fun way to use machine translation services is to start with a text, translate it in a different language and then translate the result in the original language. Translation Party extends this idea by repeating the translation until the text is no longer modified. The service uses Google Translate's API and it translates English texts into Japanese and then back in English. URL: Google Translate Equilibrium

Happy camper

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 10:45:36 GMT

I broke down and bought a Nexus One last week. URL: Happy camper

Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 12:11:11 GMT

A physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The technique is based upon prior research that shows it's possible to teleport information from one location to another, and involves making a measurement on each [of] an entangled pair of particles. The measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system, and then by carefully choosing the measurement to do so on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy. Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole. URL: Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy

Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 12:07:39 GMT

As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C. URL: Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It

Tiburones en la costa

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:59:58 GMT

Se puede estar harto de Zapatero y de sus cejas y hasta se puede pensar que el país iría mejor gobernado por un ingenio de Apple con pantalla táctil, pero lo que estamos viviendo en estos días trasciende al Ejecutivo, a su política económica y a su presidente. Tiempo habrá de que los electores pongan a cada cual en su sitio; entre tanto sería bueno que no perdiéramos de vista que nos enfrentamos a un ataque organizado de especuladores, esos tiburones con los que íbamos a acabar en cuanto tuviéramos tiempo para refundar el capitalismo. No se trata, por tanto, de defender al Gobierno sino al Estado.

Hay que empezar por proclamar lo evidente; esto es, que España no es Grecia ni Portugal, que habremos perdido de vista el cogote de Francia y quizás ya ni siquiera seamos la octava potencia del mundo o la novena. Pese a ello, ni estamos en bancarrota ni amenazamos ruina, como algunos sectores interesados se han encargado de propalar a los cuatro vientos. El Gobierno ha cometido muchas torpezas y ha contribuido de manera importante a socavar la credibilidad del país, aunque no es el único culpable del clima actual. URL: Tiburones en la costa

Open Atrium for Disaster Response

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:50:17 GMT

We just deployed a custom micro-distribution of Open Atrium for the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) Emergency Operations Center network, the World Health Organization's main arm in the region. URL: Open Atrium for Disaster Response

Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:45:32 GMT

By putting Symbian fully in the public domain, the Symbian Foundation is pitting it against Google's Android. Symbian is well known across most of the world, but it's mostly a foreign curiosity in the US, AT&T is the only carrier that currently has a symbian phone in its lineup, the Nokia E71x. URL: Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source

The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:31:30 GMT

The Lancet, a major British medical journal, has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. British surgeon and medical researcher Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues originally released their study in 1998. Since then 10 of Wakefield's 13 co-authors have renounced the study's conclusions and The Lancet has said it should never have published the research. Wakefield now faces being stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain. The vaccine-autism debate should now end. URL: The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:16:07 GMT

'We will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books.' URL: Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing

¿Por qué hay tanta corrupción en España?

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:52:24 GMT

Una primera tentación que hay que evitar es la de afirmar que la corrupción está en “nuestra cultura”. Se trata de un argumento peligroso e intelectualmente poco satisfactorio, pero que, sin embargo, goza de cierto predicamento en algunos círculos (…) Pero las causas de la corrupción no hay que buscarlas en una “mala cultura” o en una regulación insuficiente, sino en la politización de las instituciones públicas. Las administraciones más proclives a la corrupción son aquéllas con un mayor número de empleados públicos que deben su cargo a un nombramiento político. Y aquí, el contraste entre España y los países europeos con niveles bajos de corrupción es significativo. URL: ¿Por qué hay tanta corrupción en España?

Great Kids Afternoon Project: Claymation!

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:42:51 GMT

I had a great Sunday afternoon with my kids today. We combined three of my favorite activities together to do something unique, fun, and easy-to-do - we used digital cameras, some play-doh, and some pretty simple software to make claymation animations. URL: Great Kids Afternoon Project: Claymation!

Spirit

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:19:23 GMT

URL: Spirit