Any given weekday
Any given weekday the mean streets of inner-city life are populated by distinct demographic sub-genres that might correspond for didactic purposes with naturally occurring phenomena in physics:
1. Stochastic children, in school
Can We Quantify Machine Consciousness?
Artificial intelligence might endow some computers with self-awareness. Here’s how we’d know
https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-we-quantify-machine-consciousness
How quantum superposition could unravel the ‘grandfather paradox’
A fun animation from aeon
Acoustic Barcodes
Acoustic Barcodes can use sound waves to create a binary ID on most surfaces
Acoustic Barcodes can use sound waves to create a binary ID on most surfacesThe Verge is about technology
Quantum Levitation video
. 5m views in one week means science is COOL.
And the music.... dude. the. music. rocks!
nb: I have no idea what is going on here...
SO - you can read about
Vi Hart - Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants
Am having a massive Vi Hart moment...
She's like a one-woman Khan academy armed with attitude and felt-tips. (and channeling Thora Birch circa GhostWorld)
and she's not afraid
KNITTING :: Dr. Daina Taimina and her Amazing Crocheted Hyperbolic Spaces.
via theiff.org
In 1997 Cornell University mathematician Daina Taimina finally worked out how to make a physical model of hyperbolic space that allows us to feel, and to tactilely explore, the
SPACE - it's awesome.
Cassini Mission by Chris Abbas
THe incredible 6 camera polarizing thingy from NASA of the shuttle launching
Really cool footage of Sky Diving from Melbourne
Heartbreakingly beautiful VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD
GEEK :: Smart contact lenses
via newscientist.com
“The idea is to map images onto the field of view, creating head-up displays for augmented reality”
In 2008, as a proof of concept, Babak Parviz at the University
Robert Krulwich :: Why Can't We Walk Straight?
Without the internet would these little gems just wash away?
Dissolvable electronics
Bio implants to monitor your vital signs and send updates to your phone.
via technologyreview.com
Did i mention I hate going to the doctor?
Full article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/
Merry-go-round of Death
This is basically how most applied physics should be taught to boys and is an excellent demonstration of the conservation of angular momentum and increasing mass and also just how dumb guys
Bokode - micro barcodes using your camera to scan
Project Overview ‹ Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera-Based Interaction from a Distance – MIT Media LabWith over a billion people carrying camera-phones worldwide, we have a new opportunity to upgrade the classic bar
MIT develops camera-like fabric
via news.cnet.com
Currently two-tone - the fabric is now able to sense variation in light frequencies and that can send an image back to a computer.
It may be incredibly
The science is beautiful
It seems to me that it is intrinsic to human nature to find things, pick them up and then bang them together to see what happens. Rattles, dolls, cars, fists, protons...
I
Brilliant Noise - a video of the sun.
It isn't nice to listen too. And it's black and white. But it's so awesome...
Brilliant Noise – semiconductorsemiconductorruth jarman & joe gerhardt
"Brilliant Noise takes
