Well, the world’s largest Physics experiment is up and running and we’re all still alive. Yep, the world didn’t explode and the universe didn’t end or anything. Who’d a thunk that these scientist-types knew what they were talking about?
Hopefully the tests give them the information they’re looking for and perhaps we’ll finally find out where mass comes from (read about the Higgs Boson).
These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/14/08 … please enjoy:
John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term “Black Hole,” Is Dead at 96 | New York Times
Eminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler has died from pneumonia at the age of 96. The coiner of the terms ‘black hole’ and ‘wormhole,’ Wheeler popularized the study of general relativity, and advised a distinguished list of graduate students.
Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them | WIred
You may think you decided to read this story — but in fact, your brain made the decision long before you knew about it.
HARDCORE MARILYN | New York Post
When it came to light in the mid-’60s, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe’s sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and inte
Last week at The Society meeting held at AARP’s headquarters, people were shown the winning video submissions in a contest for 20 year olds called ‘u@50′. This video actually won second place, but when they played it, everyone in the room was awe-struck.
14-Year-Old Creates Chemistry Trading Card Game | Wired.com
Making up your own games has been a childhood staple for as long as anyone can remember. 14-year-old Anshul Samar has taken this to its logical conclusion by creating his own science-based fantasy card combat game Elementeo.
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/07/08 … please enjoy:
Meet ApriPoko, Toshiba's channel surfing helper-bot | Engadget
ApriPoko is capable of learning how to control electronics by watching you and asking questions about your behavior. When you use an infrared device, the robot senses the signal and asks the user "What did you just do?"
MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies | Microsoft Research
MySong, introduced in our CHI 2008 paper, automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music.
CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch | Engadget
Apparently, when CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project is known as "the grid."
Gator blood touted as potential source of lifesaving drugs | Palm Beach Post
Someday an alligator might save your life. Researchers in Louisiana say they've discovered unique antibiotic proteins in the blood of American alligators that can kill a wide variety of deadly bacteria, halt the spread of common infections and perhaps ev
Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen | Fizzlebot
This is pretty much just an online clone of Crayon Physics, but is pretty fun!
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/31/08 … please enjoy:
More parents using txt language to make their child's name gr8 | the Daily Mail
It might not be every parent's idea of a "gr8" way to name a baby.But our growing habit of using text messages to communicate appears to be having an impact on what we call our children. Anne has been changed to An, Connor to Conna and Laura to Lora.
They bounce, are semi-buoyant, and males seem to not be able to get enough of them. They are breasts. In an odd way, the physics of breasts have become a huge factor and trend in the world of gaming; it?s quite interesting how this whole trend started.
World's Hardest Easy Geometry Problem | ThinkZone
Using only elementary geometry, determine angle x. Provide a step-by-step proof. This is the hardest problem I have ever seen that is, in a sense, easy. It really can be done using only elementary geometry. This is not a trick question.
Newton Virus – Art virus for Mac | YouTube
Spice up your colleagues' day with our Newton Virus, the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world.
Life's little mysteries | the Daily Mail
Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain these situations we encounter in everyday life.
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