Human Connectome Project | Gallery
Check out this website I found at humanconnectomeproject.org
Very cool data visualization of the synapse in your brain. Worth a browse. http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/gallery/
Get ready for time travel | Einstein’s special theory of relativity is more relative than previously thought!
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Get ready for time travel
By Mark Halper | September 22, 2011, 1:56 PM PDT
The boffins at CERN in Switzerland were simply trying to beam neutrinos on a 455-mile under-mountain journey to Italy, to see how many of them would reverse their state.
Well wouldn’t you know it, those pesky neutrinos arrived ahead of time. But this was no ordinary case of early. They got there faster than the speed of light.
As the BBC notes, the result “threatens to upend a century of physics.” The article points out, “The speed of light is the Universe’s ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics – as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity – depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.”
The CERN physicists were testing to see how many muon neutrinos would flip and arrive as tau neutrinos at Italy’s Gran Sasso laboratory.
During the 3-year experiment, the neutrinos pulled into Gran Sasso “a few billionths of a second” ahead of what the laws of physics should permit, the article states.
Antonio Ereditato, author of a report on the findings, said the CERN team is refraining from officially claiming the neutrinos traveled faster than light until other scientists can corroborate the results.
“We are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result – because it is crazy,” he told the BBC. “And of course the consequences can be very serious.”
Or fun even. Get ready to book your tickets back to the past. Presumably the Dr. Who Express will be carbon free.
Photo: Willie Williams/Wikimedia Commons
Reinventing the note. Again. – Post-it® PopNotes App
A fun and challenging project of late… search PopNotes on iTunes Store or click here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/post-it-popnotes/id456722936?mt=8
Intelligent Ad Framework demo at Intel Research Day 2011
via youtube.com
Anonymous Video Analytics (AVA) geared for the retail setting will enable some very targeted display and interactive ads. Some may see it as creepy at first, but the personal relevance and knowledge that the video data is analyzed and discarded should win them over. Had the pleasure of seeing this in person, wicked cool!
Taking your Air Conditioning for Granted
This weekend, Friday to be exact, I counted on my A/C to just startup for the 12th year running… big mistake. House was open all day Friday and was 84 degrees at 6pm, balmy. Let’s just say nobody slept well that night. Left messages for HVAC repair peeps (I won’t name names) but received no responses.
So, the following photos are what any red-blooded technologist would do – tear into it and fix the damn thing. Works great now… pretty low-tech stuff.
