Posts Tagged ‘News’
Game of life
February 15th, 2009
The Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a ‘cellular automaton’, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway.
This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form various patterns throughout the course of the game.
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top 25 Censored stories for 2007
February 12th, 2009
OK, I know its a few years back. But I am so bored, I thought I’d just share it with you:
- 1. Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
- 2. Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
- 3. Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
- 4. Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
- 5. High-Tech Genocide in Congo
Read the rest: Censored stories for 2007
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A news website
February 4th, 2009
this is a great news website, that gives you the chance to know more and read less. This is for all those lazy readers out there.
I think its very well done and a good idea.
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Brainwaves controll robot arm
January 27th, 2009
Ever thought what would happen to you if you were to lose your arm?
Don’t worry any more. There is still hope:
Scientists have had a string of remarkable successes lately, taking signals from the brains of monkeys and men, and using them to move mechanical arms.
Darpa, the Pentagon’s blue-sky research division, now wants to ratchet that work up about ten notches, by developing a “neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore full motor and sensory capability to upper extremity amputee patients. This revolutionary prosthesis will be controlled, feel, look and perform like the native limb.”
So, basically, what Luke Skywalker gets in Empire Strikes Back, after Darth chops off his hand. Except, researchers won’t have a long, long time to get this limb ready. Darpa wants the robo-arm stat — in four years or less.
Read the whole article here: Human Robotic arm
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One wipes out a whole species
January 21st, 2009
In 1894, a cat named Tibbles killed all the wrens on Stephens Island, New Zealand.
Unfortunately, they were the last of their species, Xenicus lyalli.
That makes Tibbles the only individual in recorded history to wipe out an entire species singlehanded.
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Broken window Theory
January 18th, 2009
Ever heard of the broken window theory? I am bored will share it with you:
Last month social scientists in the Netherlands empirically demonstrated a phenomenon observed by policymakers and law-enforcement officials for years. When an envelope visibly containing a five-euro note was left hanging out of a mailbox on a sidewalk, 13 percent of the passersby snatched it up. When the same mailbox was covered in graffiti, however, more than double the number of the pedestrians (about 27 percent) stole the envelope.
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Making of Lego blocks
January 13th, 2009
Bored? Think Lego.
Lego, officially trademarked LEGO, is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company’s flagship product, “Lego”, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings and even working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. The toys were originally designed in the 1940s in Europe and have achieved an international appeal, with an extensive subculture that supports Lego movies, games, competitions, and four Lego-themed amusement parks.
Ever wonder how lego is made? Welll, find out how the production line works here:
http://www.popandco.com/archive/moab/
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Raw food, good for you?
January 10th, 2009
Can Raw food really be the answer all scientists have been looking for?
Raw food proponents have long been spreading the word that a predominantly raw food diet will give you more energy, slow down aging, improve your skin, boost your mood, and fight a host of chronic diseases including chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s disease and even cancer.
Yet, long before that, sometime in the early 17th century a German mystic named Jakob Bohme realized a philosophy known as “the doctrine of signatures.” According to Bohme’s writings, the doctrine of signatures refers to the notion that God marked objects with a sign or “signature” revealing their true purpose. The original theory has been traced back to Galen, a well-known physician and medical researcher around 159 A.D
See them and read about them all here: Sixwise
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Power Station Gym
November 11th, 2008
Would you like to cycle more or less on a gym bike that creates electricity for your community?
New technology devised by a Connecticut firm, The Green Revolution Inc is turning sessions in the gym into clean renewable electricity.
The Green Revolution device snaps on to the front of all major brands of indoor cycling equipment.
It’s a workout that hopes to work out some of our energy problems and offers a glimpse of what could be achieved if we all do our bit for the environment.
The first devices were recently installed on seventeen bicycles at the Ridgefield Fitness Club in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
The energy generated is fed straight into the club’s electricity control cabinet where a grid-tie inverter pumps energy back on to the grid.
I know I for one would
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