- EMP cannon. Mount one of these babies on your trunk and eliminate that tailgating problem.
- Shock Cannon and here is how to get that solicitor off your porch.
- Vortex Cannon video. Probably a bit more powerful than I ever thought about building at Halloween.
Posts Tagged Science
Science reading
Jan 11
- The Year In Materials
- Chromoscope. Fascinating, there is a lot going on we can’t see.
- Massive white dwarf may go nova, endangering life on earth. Maybe the Russians can go fix this after they master deflecting asteroids.
- World’s smallest snowman
- Ancient computer — we are not so clever as we think we are.
No theme here other than “stuff I happened across recently”
- Terry Tao math blog. Brain stretching.
- How Goldman profited on housing crash. Don’t know how reliable this source is but disturbing.
- Controversy about whether there is or is not a giant magma chamber under the state of Washington. Probably not but a great disaster movie in the making.
- Thread on design versus iteration.
- Automated sports writing. Amazingly readable. (Thanks Phil).
- The Billion Dollar Gram. Another one via Phil.
- Gravitational Corridors. Cool.
- Nowhere are we more honest than the search box.
- NASA dollars pissed away on 2012 nutballs
- Why it is harder than ever to get into some colleges. Interesting question about whether this applies to other markets.
No time to blog, fall quarter starting, and travelling too. Dump of stuff that is interesting:
- Ultimate Productivity Blog. I think that is clear.
- Paintable transistors. Semiconducting polymer stable when applied at room temp, cool.
- Hydrophobic Nano Grass. Nano scale fluid handling tech is pretty awesome.
- Fantastic Solar System Photos. Humbling and inspiring.
- Structural Color Printing. Structural colors are very cool — colors created by the nanostructure of an item, not by dyes. And now you can manipulate the color dynamically.
- Atoms jump around a lot
- Bionic Eyesight. You rushed ahead and got Lasik surgery, while those of us late to the party are going to be able to see through walls and have heat vision.
- Touchable holography. Uses tracking cameras and directed ultrasound to create interaction and physical sensation. Cool demo.
- Algortihmatic - online library of algorithms and IDE. Cool tho limited.
- The LED’s dark secret. Droop in LED performance to be overcome for broader use.
- Plasmobots — “their previous research has already proved the ability of the mould to have computational abilities”.
- Ford Mike Rowe video. I didn’t realize they automatically tracked every single assembly operations through the tools. Fascinating.
- Brad Feld’s open office hours. An intriguing idea. Commendable.
- WPTouch plugin for wordpress is awesome. check out theludwigs.com from your iphone.
- Messing around with Slingbox finally. Works well tho I had to massively reconfig home network to get rid of routers — configuring to get through one router was reasonable; getting through two was nearly impossible; getting through the three I had in place would have required several PhDs.
- Download Manager Tweak. Probably prefer download statusbar
- Vacuum your firefox db. No idea if this actually did anything. Didn’t seem to make Firefox explode so I guess that is a plus.
- Polymath. Lots of great links to math formatting services for the web.
- Gliffy plugin for wordpress. Seems like it could be useful as well.
Standardized network diagrams for biology — SBGN.Org. Cool, I have a hard time imagining electrical engineering without a standardized circuit diagram language.
Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials — Stebe et al. 325 5937: 159 — Science — good article.
“Such metamaterials may, for example, be used to create cloaking devices or light-based circuits based on manipulations of local optical electric fields rather than on the flow of electrons.”
“The challenge now is to move from hit-or-miss assemblies of academic interest to the creation of technologically relevant devices that combine particle and patterned assembly via large-scale processes.”
It is this latter challenge I find most interesting.
Reardon recommends Computational Science and Engineering. OCW links.
FT.com / Reportage – A library of the world’s most unusual compounds — would love to visit this library/museum.