Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight (1/2 the cost of the Manhattan Project), a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIE_XXmGUg]
part of The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecture @ UC Berkeley. In it
Thomas E. Ricks a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) that concurrently with his duties at CNAS, Ricks writes an online blog for ForeignPolicy.com called, "The Best Defense," and serves as contributing editor for Foreign Policy covers the drastic changes implemented by Richard Marshall (general) and present situation regarding command structure and selection.
a circular bullet time array of 48 Chronos 1.4 high speed cameras, capable of recording 68 gigapixels per second - 720p at 72000fps! Video shows footage taken of experiences.
Neil Thapen is a game developer who's been working this in-browser simulator (dubbed "Pink Trombone") since 2015. You, the user, are given fine control over every important part of the human vocal tract; in theory, you should be able to make all sorts of sounds. In practice, having such fine grain control is really, really hard to manage. The results are simultaneously impressive and hilarious.
based on the original 5-year voyage. The original series ended three years into the journey, starting this new series right where the original left off.
Directed & Edited By Ladd Ehlinger. Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds himself in the middle of two upheavals: the rise of martial law by the circular leadership of Flatland, and the arrival of A Sphere, CEO Of Messiah, Incorporated, a creature from a hitherto-unknown third dimensional world.
developer's resource for computer interfacing, especially USB, serial (COM) ports, mass storage, Ethernet and Internet for embedded systems, and the parallel port.
by Edward de Bono. "There is a story of a man who painted half his car black and the other half white. He said he did this because he loved to hear the witnesses dogmatically contradict each other whenever he was involved in an accident. A wife tries on a new dress and loves it. Her husband who is with her dislikes it. She is looking at the colour and shape - he is looking at the price."
science fiction film shot in Denmark. The film's ideas of astronauts exploring outer space only to confront their inner mindscapes and memories precede the similar-themed Solaris by a full decade (Although the novel Solaris precedes this film by a year). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Seventh_Planet
a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security, or our right to fully participate in our democratic society.
a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.
a flight tracking service that provides you with real-time info about thousands of aircraft around the world. Using flight information data from aircraft by ADS-B transponder (in ~60% of all passenger aircraft) and delayed (~5 min) data from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
a open source tool and free web service that lets you map your flights around the world, search and filter them in all sorts of interesting ways, calculate statistics automatically, and share your flights and trips with friends and the entire world (if you wish).
a 1974 television movie about an android (portrayed by Robert Foxworth) with incomplete memory tapes who is searching for his creator and his purpose. Conceived by and executive produced by Gene Roddenberry, the script is credited to Roddenberry and fellow Star Trek alumnus Gene L. Coon.
an LLVM to JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode (which can be generated from C/C++ using Clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM bitcode) and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run).
part BBC Sci Fi Live TV series from 1955. It is also the earliest surviving complete British science-fiction television production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029201/) George McWhirter Fotheringay, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them. The conundrum of absolute power under human limitations, the aspirations of the time still ring true today. This is the only complete copy I have found there is another one on the same site with better quality but lacks the complete ending.
a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like Epsilons. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080468
Movie based on George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Blind compliance to authority. This should be a case study for psychologists, a wake up call to the education system and force a reflection about society. This was put into a movie Compliance (2012) and is covered in Wikipedia's article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam).
News and information about the Sun-Earth environments. Comets, Solar flares, satellites, geomagnetic activity, auroral event (Northern Lights) and more...
a co-production of Les Armateurs,Trans Europe Film, Studio O, France 3 cinéma, RTBF and Exposure in France,Odec Kid Cartoons in Belgium and Monipoly in Luxembourg, drawing from elements of west Alkebulan (Africa) culture. It was animated at Rija Films' animation studio in Latvia and Studio Exist in Hungary, with backgrounds painted at Les Armateurs and Paul Thiltges' animation studio,Tiramisu,in Luxembourg, digital ink and paint and compositing by Les Armateurs and Odec Kid Cartoons in Belgium and voices and music recorded in Senegal.
video takes you through the process from start to finish, including all of the components you'll need to make your own: the mixing bowls, the fan motor, the propane torch, and of course, the sugar.
The Lenna (or Lena) picture is one of the most widely used standard test images used for compression algorithms.'lena' or 'lenna' is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972. (Lenna is the spelling in Playboy, Lena is the Swedish spelling of the name.) Lena Soderberg (ne Sjööblom)
lets you instantly set up secure conversations. It's an open source encrypted, private alternative to WEB chat systems. Messages are encrypted inside your own browser using AES-256. Encrypted data is securely wiped after one hour of inactivity. Runs as a Tor hidden service.
a tool by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that tests your browser "fingerprint" to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits.
a free recorded digital edition of pianist Kimiko Ishizaka of Bach's Goldberg Variations produced by Anne-Marie Sylvestre.
(http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/goldberg-variations)
Flirty Fishing (FFing) was a form of religious prostitution practiced by the Children of God/The Family cult from 1974 until it was officially discontinued in 1987.
developer Zach Moazeni’s uses the GitHub API to pull in GitHub events (pushes, forks, gists, branches, tags, follows and comments) displaying them in a vertical timeline reminiscent of Facebook.
guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone.
Free online biodiversity encyclopedia, with hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data as to build a web page for each of the 1.9 million recognized species.
interesting demonstration of how using Google’s mapping API and raw data from NASA can be used to generated a usable if not complete exact visualization of the impact of sea level rising due to climate change.
By Rebecca Murphey. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library; when you're done with the book, you should be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery, and have a solid basis from which to continue your learning. This book was designed as material to be used in a classroom setting, but you may find it useful for individual study.
a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
a set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. It provides an visual effects engine, a drag and drop library (including sortable lists), a couple of controls (Ajax-based autocompletion, in-place editing, sliders) and more.
online, in-browser tools for schematic capture and circuit simulation. These tools allow students, hobbyists, and professional engineers to design and analyze analog and digital systems before ever building a prototype. Online schematic capture lets hobbyists easily share and discuss their designs, while online circuit simulation allows for quick design iteration and accelerated learning about electronics.
a type of nuclear explosive being developed by the US Department of Defense could blur the critical distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The work has also raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the next arms race.
Initial group consisted of a cooperation of 4 people: a biologist from Great Falls, Montana; a Cree Nations elder representing the First Nations People; the skeptic Todd Standing; and a paramedic fire fighter from Calgary, Alberta. Our ultimate goal is to ethically introduce civilization to the most man-like primate on the planet.
an independent non-profit and non-religious organization founded by nuclear engineer M.T. Keshe aiming to bring about new scientific knowledge, technologies and new solutions for the major global problems like famine, water shortage, shortage of electrical power supply, climate change, illnesses, where at the same time by the use of new types of plasma reactors giving the Man the real freedom of travel in deep Space.
an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime audio mosaicing. By Bruno Zamborlin, Joint PhD in Arts and Computational Technologies between IRCAM/Centre Pompidou in Paris and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, including his annotated copy of Principia Mathematica, containing Newton's laws of motion and gravity.
Very well done series of videos supporting the claim that NASA never sent astronauts to the Moon, giving NASA defenders an impossible time (even embarrassing at times) in their attempts of refutation. Work done by Jarrah White (http://moonfaker.com/home.html)a student doing his BSc in Astrophysics.
online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Unlike PayPal, Dwolla doesn't take a percentage of the transaction. It only asks for $0.25 whether it's moving $1 or $1,000.
Using data gathered from US government agencies, anthropologist Felix Pharand-Deschenes has created a collection of maps that illustrate the various circulatory systems that connect humanity: cities, roads, railways, power lines, pipelines, cable Internet, airlines, and shipping lanes. The maps are remarkable cartographic documents of our current age, but also serve deeper research and educational purposes.
set of 50+ industrial machines that are required to build and maintain a small, sustainable civilization. The open source aspect covers designs, instructions, schematics, budgets — everything anyone needs to know to build their own machines.
There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that we hope you disagree with.
NXP ARM7TDMI and Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers. Supports the LPC1768/LPC2368 microcontrollers. Also emulates a USB serial port for easier interfacing.
NTSC/PAL composite video output from the LPC1768 with a PS/2 keyboard for standalone operation.