Posts Tagged ‘science’

Worldwide Telescope: Take a tour of space

It seems like WorldWide Telescope is now available for people to download by Mac and PC users around the world. It’s a pretty heavy application so make sure you have a decent PC to run it on. It needs 1Gb of RAM with 2Gb recommended, 1Gb of hard disk space...

World Mind Network

Here’s an interesting website what some of you might find fascinating. It’s a collection of live webcams showing a whole variety of different people, scientific events, even aspects of modern life. It’s quite interesting and worth some time investigating all the different resources they have. These are the ones I...

Designing Webpages: Which style do you prefer?

Interesting article by Nick Usborne entitled Two Approaches to Writing Webpages. In it he talks about two distinct methods of web page creation. The first method is similar to writing a letter or a brochure. It’s the linear placing of ideas on a page till the final objective is reached....

Dealing with grief

I came across an interesting article today that talks about how people deal with grief. You’ve undoubtedly come across the “5 stages of grief” model. Well, according to this article, most people do not adhere to the model. I suppose we’re not as predictable as some people would like. I...

Invisibility Cloaks explained

Ever wondered how the Invisibility Cloak (Harry Potter) or just Cloaking Device (Romulan) are supposed to work. Read more about the optical camouflage work that the Univerisity of Tokyo is doing...

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