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New Map Of Saturn's Moon Reveals 80s Pop Culture Icons

Mar 31 2010 | comment(s)

A new high resolution temperature map and images of Saturn's moon Mimas have revealed surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including unexpected hot regions that resemble "Pac-Man" eating a dot, and striking bands of light and dark in crater walls.

The new images were collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, during its closest flyby of the moon, which is marked by an enormous scar called Herschel Crater and resembles the Death Star from "Star Wars."

Hexaware Strengthens Insurance Capabilities; Forges Strategic Partnership With EBaoTech

Mar 31 2010 | comment(s)

Media rights and wrongs

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

If you want to believe news reports Prf. James Lovelock think we are too stupid to stop climate change.

What he actually said was
"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation as climate change, the inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.”

He also said
“What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek.”

The Hall Of Human Origins

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

What does it mean to be human? In the six million years or so since our ancestors first stood upright, we still don't have the perfect answer. In an effort to help the public appreciate our own unique development as human beings and explore the question for themselves, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History opened the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins.

The exhibit hall "offers visitors an immersive, interactive journey through 6 million years of scientific evidence for human origins and the stories of survival and extinction in our family tree during times of dramatic climate instability," the Smithsonian says. I had the fortune to visit the exhibit this weekend; if you're in D.C.¹in the future, I strongly recommend you check it out.

Figured out and Ignored while in plain sight -that is autism!

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Unexpected context, So much for inventing motors or figuring out Autism

Found on the web, from Stumble-upon

So much for solving autism, inventing computors (Alan Turing 1912-1954) , motors or simply overcoming the curse of Rain Man , if Joshua Bell could not pull off the trick ,I can't either

Birefringence and the polarized light

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Birefringence and the polarized light

1. Definition

7 TeV Collisions: LHC Is ON!

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

We are on. This afternoon just after 1PM the LHC beams have started to produce proton-proton collisions in the heart of the experiments, at the never-before achieved energy of 7 TeV.

It was a long journey to get here -the project is twenty years old- but this is just the start of a new, more exciting one: In the course of the next two years, the Large Hadron Collider will gradually increase its power, allowing the CMS and ATLAS detectors to collect enough data to significantly extend into discovery territory.

My, my! What a big brain!

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

A very interesting question has been posed by colleague Mark Changizi (see his fascinating blogs at www.scientificblogging.com) related to brain size as it relates to body size. He presents good information that shows the rather constant relationship of brain size to body size. He asks the question, essentially, if bigger brains do not make for more intelligent animals, why are there bigger brains?

Banca D'Italia, ICBPI And VocaLink Announce Their Cooperation To Make The Respective SEPA-schemes Compliant Clearing And Settlement Mechanisms Interoperable And To Broaden Reachability Throughout The Single Euro Payments Area

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Informex Specialty Chemical Conference Announces Keynote Speakers

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Timesoft Opening Branch In USA

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Telnic Announces Launch Date Of June 15th For IDNs In Sixteen Languages

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

IVONA Text-To-Speech Makes Mobile Applications More Accessible

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Election On A Tuesday...We Won't Give It A Second Thought

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

TheMarkets.com Expands Product, Technology, And Customer Service Offerings In 2009

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Hospira Completes Acquisition Of Orchid's Generic Injectable Pharmaceuticals Business

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Labor Pains

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

How much is my labor on the Project Calliope satellite costing me? Accounts range from 'zero' to $14,400, to $65,000. That's the difference between what I'm being paid to do it for, what I'm losing, and what I could potentially be making for the time I'm putting into this project.

The valuation of volunteer labor is currently $20 per hour. Opportunity cost is defined as the 'cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a different action'. So if it takes me 4 hours to read a novel, is that an $80 book?

Safelayer Consolidates Its Strategic Alliance With Indra For Citizen E-ID/e-Passport Solutions

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

New Drug Application For Voclosporin Accepted For Priority Review By FDA

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Prosopoagnosia - The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

Mar 30 2010 | comment(s)

Prosopagnosia or prosopagnosia, is a perceptual deficit acquired or congenital central nervous system that prevents individuals who are affected to properly recognize people's faces, it is determined by a damaged area of the brain to the task, turn fusiform.

It was studied thoroughly in the eighteenth century by several scientists, including John Hughlings Jackson and Jean Martin Charcot.