Nate Alder was scuba diving off the coast of Brazil when the idea struck him. It was 2006, and he was spending his summer break from Brigham Young University backpacking around the country and working on his advanced scuba certification. During one of the scuba seminars, he learned about how divers in cold climates pump argon gas into their dry suits for insulation. As a former snowboard instructor, he wondered if argon could be used to warm skiers and snowboarders too.
This article has a lot of theory but where are the numbers proving that Argon actually helps insulation? I am a cold water scuba diver and know people that use Ar in their suits. However, most admit that they can't tell the difference in temperature, but they just continue using the Ar because of the initial costs involved so they ant to believe it works.
Adding a new wrinkle to the 'droid versus iPhone debate, a project at Keio University in Tokyo have created iPhone software specifically designed to control androids. More specifically, they've created an interface that puts control of a humanoid robot right at your fingertips.
So I control the legs with two fingers, but what about the arms? Will something on the screen have to be pressed to switch to arm control forcing the user to only control the arms or legs and not them both at the same time?
The selling point of Google Android is its customizability, the ability to create a unique-looking interface that's compatible with a steady stream of apps. The trouble is, most of the Android-based handsets we've seen -- starting with T-Mobile's G1 -- have all pretty much felt the same. The just-announced Motorola CLIQ, though, is the best example (so far) of what Android is capable of.
"Blur has four parts: Happenings (social media site updates), Messaging (emails, site messages including Twitter direct messages, and texts), News Feeds (self-explanatory), and Social Status (blast all your accounts at once)." so what about regular old fashioned telephone calls? Is that not important enough to mention in an article about a phone?
For months, scientists, educators, and textbook publishers across the country have waited as members of the Texas Board of Education squabbled over whether to remove three little words in their sciences standards: “truths and weaknesses.” The controversy? The language—supported by creationists—requires biology teachers in Texas to discuss possible weaknesses in evolutionary theory, and has had implication for how evolution is taught across the country.
Chuck: It is the Law of Gravity, not the Theory of Gravity. A scientific law is something that will happen every time it is observed. What Texas has done has helped to prove the theory of Evolution. With more people critical of it, more research will be done. Also it will give children a chance to make their own decisions on whether or not see it as a possibility for how we came into existence. Another thing to remember is that to win an argument you have to know both sides; no defense attorney walks into a courtroom without knowing what the prosecutor plans on doing.
Like no other modern endeavor, the space program inspires all mankind by pushing the edge of the possible. At least, when it works it does. Often, the casual integration of satellite technology into nearly all modern electronics combines with imagery of brave astronauts going forth for all mankind to obscure the basic fact that sending something into space is damn hard, and often fails. So, inspired by the recent loss of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite, Popsci.com is taking a look back at the Top 10 missions that didn’t slip the surly bonds of Earth, failed to trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, and most certainly did not touch the face of God. View the Gallery
It would be nice to see the price tags of these mistakes. I always like to know where my tax-dollars are going.
The latest breakthrough in the burgeoning field of birth-order research reveals that parents discipline older kids much more severely than the younger ones. My own thoroughly unscientific poll also finds that this experience is common: Four out of five friends felt that hell yeah, younger siblings got away with murder. Well, not murder per se, but other transgressions such as sneaking home at 5 AM, shoplifting car stereos from Caldor, and smearing Vaseline on the family toilet seat.
So basically: Parents care more about the older children and just don't really care about the younger ones. In my family I have an older sister and younger sister and my parents had strict movie watching rules for my older sister and I, she even had to wait until I was 13 before she could start watching PG-13 movies. However, my younger sister was watching those same movies when I turned 13, she was on 10. But I think the best part of this "study" is that for some reason all children know it, and yet parents continuously deny it. Is it just one of those things that gets forgotten with age?
Carlos Guestrin wants to stop the spread of waterborne disease, design chairs that adjust to your posture, and cure Internet-induced information overload. This might seem a bit overambitious, but Guestrin has developed a single algorithm that can tackle them all.
Snitch, Click on the link, it takes you to the list, not to instapundit.
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