Standardized network diagrams for biology — SBGN.Org. Cool, I have a hard time imagining electrical engineering without a standardized circuit diagram language.
Tag Archive for Science
Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials — Science
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.
Linear algebra, finite element analysis online
Reardon recommends Computational Science and Engineering. OCW links.
FT.com / Reportage – A library of the world’s most unusual compounds
FT.com / Reportage – A library of the world’s most unusual compounds — would love to visit this library/museum.
Tensors and Index Notation
A couple of good primers out on the net:
- A Primer on Index Notation from Colorado Civil Engineering. Practical intro to index notation
- A Primer on Index Notation from MIT. A little more theoretical and discussion of use in calculus.
Somehow I did not ever learn about index notation in my past educational life. Time to learn.
nanoHUB – Simulation, Education, and Community for Nanotechnology
nanoHUB – Simulation, Education, and Community for Nanotechnology. – hub for nano educational materials and software. interested in learning more about nano TCAD, pointed to by this article
Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions | Science Blog
Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions | Science Blog. — from the department of tautology. A quantum system can be best modelled by a quantum system.
All over the place — Distilleries of Scotland, DC, Bullets, Games, Doghouses, Golf, Currency, and more
- Brett on Stuff » Distilleries of Scotland. A reason to hike Scotland
- WOW — stronger authentication than your bank. What does that say about the world.
- Running DC thru the house. An idea whose time has come again?
- Indie games DB. Often way better than mainstream games
- Guided Bullets. Why not.
- Thingiverse. Kind of an open source design site.
- Denhaus — awesome pet furniture
- Nitrogen-infused golf clubs. Golfers will buy anything.
- Dutch 5 Euro coin. Awesome, wish I could order. Not the first time I have been blocked from ordering a euro product, wish I could sign up for a forwarding PO box in Europe.
- Mini Magnetosphere. Maybe we all need one of these
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Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an Atom
Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an Atom | Science Blog. – Kind of mind-bending. Love this stuff.
Nearby Solar System Looks Like Our Own at Time Life Formed
Nearby Solar System Looks Like Our Own at Time Life Formed | Wired Science from Wired.com. — 10.5 light years is remarkably close!
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Molecular programming
Caltech researchers awarded $10M for molecular programming project. UW involved as well. More info at the Molecular Programming Project:
…we will develop new computer science principles for programming information-bearing molecules like DNA and RNA to create artificial biomolecular programs of similar complexity. …computing and decision-making will carried out by chemical processes themselves. Through the creation of molecular programming languages, theory for analyzing them, and experiments for validating them, our long-term vision is to establish “molecular programming” as a subdiscipline of computer scienceOverview presentation here.
Fascinating stuff.
'Naked-eye' gamma-ray burst was aimed squarely at Earth
‘Naked-eye’ gamma-ray burst was aimed squarely at Earth | Science Blog — ok they claim it came from a source 7.5 billion light years away, but it sure seems strangely coincidental that it was pointed straight at us. Maybe they are pissed about the hadron collider.
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Materials science — circuits in everything
- Flexible CNT circuits move on – nanotechweb.org. Just one of many efforts to implant circuits onto papers, plastics, etc. We are going to have processing power embedded in pretty much everything.
- Work on nanonet circuits — ok this stuff is all a long way from commercialization, they can only create circuits with 100 elements, but still cool
Fun materials reads
- Nanoglassblowing — new ways of creating nanofluidic elements
- Insights into hidden world of protein folding — new insights into just how proteins fold, in some cases inside the chamber of something not unlike an engine. fascinating
- IBM research chief on the continuation of Moore’s Law — still plenty of room at the bottom
Gigabytes, terabytes and beyond
Gigabytes, terabytes and beyond….to Geopbytes | Tongfamily.com — thanks rich, i knew these all up to bronto/geop.
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Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us
Amazon.com: Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us by Robert Buckman. Fun book about the vast number of helpful, benign, and dangerous critters that live on and in our bodies. You really get the sense that you are a walking bag of bugs. The pictures of eyebrow mites are awesome! Not a kindle book, pictures matter a lot to the narrative.
Bottoms up assembly of nanowire devices
Nanowire arrays think big – nanotechweb.org — bottoms up, “organic” assembly of nanowires. Some technique like this is going to be necessary for nanowire devices. And solving the general problem of bottoms up chip assembly seems pretty high value.
Engineering Challenges for the next century
Home — a pretty inspiring list. We should all be working on one of these! I am glad to see that Ignition has companies working on health informatics, personalized learning, solar energy, and internet security.