Archives for December 2007
Large Asteriod May Collide with Mars
Published on 28 Dec 2007 at 11:37 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Mars, Research, Space.
There is now a 4 percent chance that the large asteriod 2007 WD5 may collide with the planet Mars in January 2008. While there is a 96% chance that the asteriod will miss, these odds are much larger than usual for large asteriod impacts. If the impact is to occur, it will be on 2008 […]
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Human Tetris
Published on 25 Dec 2007 at 3:56 am.
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Filed under Fun.
Tetris is a great game involving manuevering and rotating geometric shapes rapidly to best fit them into continually evolving template.
Here is a video of a Japanese game show involving Human Tetris.
You have to contort your body to fit through the hole. If you don’t the wall pushes you into a pool of water… yellow water.
Kevin […]
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 […]
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Raw Thoughts on Mass (updated)
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 2:18 am.
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Filed under Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.
What good is a cortex if it doesn’t dream a little?
I have been thinking about Ariel Caticha and Carlo Cafaro’s derivation of Newton’s Second Law from probability theory (http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1071). In this derivation, they assume three things:
There exist basic entities called particles
There is an intrinsic uncertainty about a particle’s position
There is change… not time necessarily, but change.
The first thing I […]
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The Freesound Project
Published on 19 Dec 2007 at 3:16 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Internet, Research, Solutions.
Today Roger Pink pointed me to The Freesound Project, which is an online database of sounds. These sounds are free to be used by anyone in accordance with the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project makes these sounds accessible by keyword search.
Recently, the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona received […]
