Archives for 14 July 2007

Tyrannosaurus Rex Blood?

Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 2:26 am. No Comments.
Filed under Dinosaurs, Evolution, Paleontology.

Mary Schweitzer who amazed us by discovering remains of soft tissue in dinosaur bones has been continuing to make new discoveries.  NOVA Science Now is going to broadcast a special on July 17th on the possibility that Dr. Schweitzer has discovered the remains of Tyrannosaurus Rex blood (see picture above).
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY

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MaxEnt 2007

Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 2:11 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.

Friday marked the closing session of the 27th International Workshop on Bayesian and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2007).  I had the great pleasure to host this year’s meeting in the lovely city of Saratoga Springs.  We had approximately 100 participants from almost 25 countries spanning all six of the populated continents!
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GoogleSky at DMASES 2007

Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 1:34 am. No Comments.
Filed under Astronomy, Computation, Internet, Photography, Research, Software, Space.

Sam Roweis emailed me to explain that he is affiliated with astrometry.net
I have re-written this entry and corrected the errors.
http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2007/07/17/astrometrynet/ 
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY

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