George Clooney makes ad praising UN peacekeepers [ 6/3/2008 ] UNITED NATIONS (AP) - George Clooney is marking Thursday's 60th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping with a public service announcement praising the soldiers who wear the distinctive blue helmets.
Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web [ 5/21/2008 ] "We think we are seeing the strands of a web-like structure that forms the backbone of the universe," Mike Shull of the University of Colorado explained. "What we are confirming in detail is that intergalactic space, which intuitively might seem to be empty, is in fact the reservoir for most of the normal, baryonic matter in the universe."
Memristor No Longer Missing [ 5/1/2008 ] HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
Edward Lorenz, Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90 [ 4/21/2008 ] The Kyoto Prize in 1991 noted that his discovery of chaos theory 'profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought
about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind's view of nature since
Sir Isaac Newton.' Ok weirdly, I remember his dying a few years ago, and rendering Lorenz attractors in his honor: what's going on?
Martin Luther King, Jr - ... I just want to do God's will... [ 4/4/2008 ] "Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation."
Tomas Young [ 3/21/2008 ] Learn his story. If you vote, if you're in government, if the government is your customer, if you're a journalist - if you consider yourself a citizen: these people need to be defended and cared for. That's what *they* thought they were doing for *us*.
Martha Thorneloe [ 3/20/2008 ] Great NYC-based lifestyle photographer, recently made some particularly amazing images from the penthouse of our office at 240 Madison Ave. Really nice website, check it out!
Hadoop 1.0 close to release [ 3/20/2008 ] Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data - petabytes, across thousands of nodes. Easily. I know - I can't wait either.
Deocampo Digs the Atlanta Heavy Metals Scene [ 3/17/2008 ] There are several projects available for student research projects, including:
• mineralogy and geochemistry of Pleistocene volcanic sediment in Rome, Italy
• mineralogy and geochemistry of ancient Roman mortar and concrete
• clay minerals of modern and ancient lakes of California
• mineralogy and geochemistry of Pleistocene lake sediment from East Africa
• heavy metals in urban soils of Atlanta
JAM - Just Add Music [ 3/10/2008 ] Jonathan Hammond has been developing JAM, a powerful plugin for Ableton Live that let's you - well, you'll see, click on the link.
AV Performers - Eclectic Method on CNET.tv [ 3/10/2008 ] Eclectic Method is Ian Edgar, Geoff Gamlen, and NYC's Jonny Wilson. Kids today and their new fangled realtime audiovisual art...
Good investigative journalism- Thanks, AP! [ 3/10/2008 ] Drugs in the drinking water - not as much fun as it at first sounds.
"...utilities insist their water is safe." Like they know enough to say that.
Impossible Politics? [ 1/20/2008 ] Hillary Clinton as President. Barack Obama as Vice President. John McCain as Secretary of Defense. Joe Biden as Secretary of State. John Edwards as Attorney General (or Secretary of Labor). Lincoln got his fiercest rivals to join his cabinet. Electing a woman President would be a gigantic American civil rights event.
