One of the favourite sci-fi scenes is that of the sky in the center of the Galaxy, which now has taken a newly visible form. Thanks to Slashdot, I have found a video of the movement of the stars closest to the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Really fascinating to see […]
A sky really full of stars Read More »
I am writing this through the blogging interface of Flock, which aims to make the browser the hub of online social interactions in a closer loop.
Blogging through Flock! Read More »
As broadcast live on Chinese national TV, and announced by the People’s Daily Online, now a second nation alongside Russia is capable of sending a human crew in space for extended missions. I wonder when the US will also gain this technological capability?
Now a second nation capable of sending humans in space! Read More »
The solutions of the equations of General Relativity are hard, and it is not surprising that only special cases have been analysed in detail. It is more surprising however that the professional cosmologists have chosed to treat an entire Galaxy with just the Newtonian mechanics, and when the results didn’t conform to the measurements, they
Just because it’s hard, you can’t ignore it… Read More »
I’ve created a new blog, with a hat tip to SkypeJournal: www.gizmojournal.net aims to keep you up to date with the technical, commercial, and industry side of Gizmo Project, and SIPphone, the company behind it.
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When Stephen Wolfram’s long awaited book A New Kind Of Science came out, one of the challenges of reviewers, and readers alike was finding good examples of applications for the approach described. The feeling of power, and importance that the author wanted to project was often lost on those who couldn’t follow the mathematics in
Wolfram does music Read More »
I resisted trying Sudoku up to today, but Cosimo asked me to, so we took a ‘Corriere’ from a few days ago, and started with the easy one, laying on the big bed after dinner. I haven’t solved it yet (aargh!, easy?!), and around half way through Cosimo fell asleep, but it was very funny.
The road, on top of the goal, in Sudoku as well Read More »
When I have started listening to ITconversations, and following more closely certain blogs, what I realized that you can very efficiently collect a lot of what you would personally experience by physically visiting a conference or an exhibition. NextFest 2005 was one of the exhibitions I would have wanted to attend, and seeing the great
Remote participation in conferences, and exhibitions Read More »
Solutions to important, complex problems often self selct through economic pressures, so it is natural that alternative energy sources become viable as the traditional ones price themselves out of the reach of their consumers. CNET News.com is reporting that Google founders have invested in
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