If I had 300 hours, 500 fast processors running in parallel, and a PhD in fluid dynamics I still probably wouldn’t analyze golf balls. But a team of researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Maryland did. Up to now, dimple design has been more of an art than a science. For many [...]
Jack Shedd of Big Contrarian fame just figured out how to NOT read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book yet still get everything it has to offer: …staring at the pile of books I’ve sworn I’d finish this year, and remembering how frustrating reading Blink was for me, shouting and pacing and fuming, it dawned on me [...]
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The best defense is a good offense. From TIME’s Best Inventions of 2008, bullets that shoot bullets. Raytheon’s APS will automatically detect an incoming round and then launch a missile to destroy it, all within a split second. If it works, future Army vehicles will be able to head into combat with less armor.
If I had a supercomputer with 1,645 teraflops of processing power and over 360 terabytes of memory, I'd make a few cycles available to scientists working on climate modeling and renewable energy. "According to NCCS, key projects that will benefit from the Jaguar upgrade include, the Climate Change Initiative, which “aims to accelerate discoveries about [...]
After years of trying to figure out the first chord of “A Hard Day’s Night,” Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to throw a little math at the problem and ran a Fourier analysis. You remember from your mechanical vibrations, mechanical controls, and digital signal processing courses that a Fourier analysis can be [...]
If Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are the things you love (or hate) the most about W, you will want to check out Behind the Candidates. Behind the Candidates is an interactive infographic that presents each advisor paired with their respective counterpart. Our intent was to create a comprehensive resource that wouldn’t bombard viewers with [...]
The fees on my global cellular plan are big while I’m roaming internationally. Skype is great for making calls over an internet connection, but you have to be at your computer to make the call. Most hotels have an ethernet jack in their rooms and some have WiFi for guests. I wasn’t excited about spending [...]
This is one of the many reasons I love typography and typographers. Jonathan Hoefler of Hoefler and Frere-Jones found an article in Science Magazine about a group of researchers who created an “Atomic Pen” that selectively swaps atoms of silicon with tin. Their technique, documented in today’s issue of Science magazine, makes use of an [...]
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