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Announced…. via Twitter? Well, I guess someone in the government understands new media.
I hope this isn’t just viral marketing for the new X-Files movie. (July 25th!)
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EcoGeek: Carbon Neutral Cooling
The CO2 in your soda is, in fact, stored industrial carbon. So when we hear about refrigerators and air conditioners becoming far more efficient by using CO2 as a coolant, we don’t have to worry about the CO2. All we have to worry about is how to get this new refrigerant adopted as quickly as possible.
I remember the fight against CFCs in the 90s, now against HFCs. Earth Day was a given… there was no debate about the dangers of global warming until it became a political issue a few years ago. This is why I think the green movement has caught on so quickly as people of “my age” are just becoming the driving economic force. We always knew being green was important, we just needed the marketplace in which to exercize our consumer desires.
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Holographic Display is Eeriely Cool
The future is now! Created by the Graphics Lab at USC. Just… wow.
via Wired
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What’s Behind Door #3, Monty?
I just received an email from a jazz musician I used to go see who feels that being on her mailing list is just cause to receive all sorts of irrelevant forwards. Most recent:
When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go, only 1 of 2 things will happen, either He’ll catch you when you fall, or He’ll teach you how to fly! “The power of one sentence! God is going to shift things around for you today and let things work in your favor. If you believe, send it. If you don’t believe, delete it. God closes doors no man can open & God opens doors no man can close. If you need God to open some doors for you…send this to ten people. Have a blessed day and remember to be a blessing…
Abhorrent grammar aside, they’ve clearly missed the third option, where gravity sucks you straight to the wide crevass below - or sucks the Earth up to you - depending, of course, on your perspective. The Roadrunner then screeches to a halt next to your utterly squashed carcass. “Meep Meep!” he chortles, and zooms off.
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Video: Large Hadron Collider Rap
CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.Higgs Fields don’t get enough musical coverage.
found via .51 - Geekspace for Women.
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LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams
The transparency allowed by these big science collaborations is really a boon to the public.
Click though to view live LHC webcams
via quine via cji
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The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Connects via USB, allowing you to burn whatever image you like onto your unsuspecting Wonderbread (or organic Ezekial sprouted wheat, in my case).
Oh for heaven’s sake I want this. The possibilities are endless.
via engadget
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CERN Website Hacked
Click for larger view
During the brief respite between speeches from the CEO of Bank of America and George W Bush (still to come in 5 minutes) and watching the economy plummet into an ever deeper pit of despair, I managed to notice a little blurb about the CERN website being cracked. Apparently a Greek team referenced 2600 in their responsibility claim. Why? Who knows. At least it wasn’t worse.
Scientists working at Cern, the organisation that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were “one step away” from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors of the machine, a vast magnet that weighs 12,500 tons, measuring around 21 metres in length and 15 metres wide/high.
If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector and, said the insider, “it is hard enough to make these things work if no one is messing with it.”
via Telegraph
Dave Lewis over at the Liquidmatrix Security Digest notes:
Um, whut?
Why isn’t this 3 billion € machine segregated? This seems to be akin to attaching a SCADA network to the internet. Not this wisest idea. So what was this website running on before it got taken down? Well, as of Sept 10th it was reporting “Apache/2.2.4 (Unix) DAV/2 proxy_html/2.5 mod_jk/1.2.20 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8d ” on Netcraft. Well, running a pwnable version of Apache is a good indication of how they got access.
I don’t really have anything to add to that. Back to watching the Street hide under its collective desk, waiting for the fallout.
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via topherchris:
Inspired by Google’s Mail Goggles feature. Yes, it’s real.
I love topher’s graphic, though I wonder if he meant “Approximately how old is the Earth?” as Earth’s 4.6 billion year age is rather well known, but the universe’s ~14 billion year age is a little more esoteric and probably would weed out a pretty large amount of potentially non-crazy email. Shrug.
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The Leonard E. Gibbs Award
Before he passed away of cancer earlier this year, my uncle was a leader in the Evidence-Based Practice movement in the Social (and other) Sciences. In fact, he wrote the textbook on the subject. He was all about empirical testing for everything and pragmatism in accepting that the answer might not be what you expect or even what you want, which my little science-fiend of a brain completely admires.
Thus, it’s really cool that the Campbell Collaboration has announced an annual award to be given in his name, the first of which will be announced at the May 2009 symposium in Oslo, Norway. (Remember how I mentioned I’m Norwegian? He was really Norwegian…)
I hope someday I contribute enough to something I feel strongly about that people feel motivated to create an international award in my name. (Guess I should stop working on Wall Street, huh?) What an honor.
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
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