Very well done 10 minute animation that shows the relationship between different people and time.
Archive for June, 2010
Der Affe als Mensch, der Mensch als Affe, Darwin und seine Evolutionstheorie http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/wissen/-/id=660374/nid=660374/did=4185812/1oep8ie/index.html An interesting point about how Darwin has developed his theory: Erst langsam ist Darwin auf die Idee gekommen, dass es so etwas wie einen Wandel oder eine Anpassung von Arten geben konnte. Allerdings – und das ist der für mich wichtige Punkt: [...]
What Is I.B.M.’s Watson? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html Link to the IBM, Jeopardy! Challenge http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/ Interesting development by IBM, a computer that can understand and answer complex questions.
June 10, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: biology
Social Tagging: embryophysics
Filed under: biology
Social Tagging: embryophysics
Diatoms from Wikipedia Yesterday Richard Gordon has made a wonderful lecture about diatoms (Embryo Physics Course). A few statements from his paper The Glass Menagerie: diatoms for novel applications in nanotechnology, Trends in Biotechnology, v. 27, N 2, 2009, pp 116-127 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.11.003). Diatom studies are the classic example of the gentleman amateur scientist; Diatoms could [...]
The paper Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719 There is a link to an interview with J. Craig Venter on this page as well. The information from the Venter’s institute http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projects/first-self-replicating-synthetic-bacterial-cell/ The paper in Die Zeit; Ein Schöpfungsakt http://www.zeit.de/2010/22/N-Biologie Reporters’ Roundtable: What is artificial life? http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20006877-10348864.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
I have received from the author a reprint of his paper I.A. Stepanov, Thermodynamics of substances with negative thermal expansion and negative compressibility, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 356 (2010) 1168-1172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.03.013 where it is claimed: It is shown that for substances with positive thermal expansion and positive compressibility, and for substances with negative thermal expansion [...]
In the blog of Prof Claes Johnson http://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2010/05/atmospheric-lapse-rate.html I have found a link to his book Computational Thermodynamics that immediately caught my attention as I used to work in this area some time ago. Unfortunately his book happens to have nothing with what people understand under Computational Thermodynamics, rather his goal was to suggest a new Second [...]
I have discovered this site http://thermodynamics.materialgeek.com/ after a pingback from it, as a response on my comment on the book Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach. The owner of the blog collects blog posts about thermodynamics. If is fun to see what people write about thermodynamics.
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