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The MIT Press - Envisioning Science |
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3:38 pm EDT, Aug 3, 2002 |
A crucial element of science and engineering communication is visual. In Envisioning Science, science photographer Felice Frankel provides a guide to creating dynamic and compelling photographs ... ... from the large to small ... capturing new material and biological structures at the microscopic level. Full-color illustrations, many side-by-side comparisons, an extensive gallery of fine science photography. Benoit Mandelbrot: "In the beginning were the image and the eye. Then man-the-scientist became enamored of the word and neglectful of the image. Now the small group of those who fight back welcomes Felice Frankel as a marvelous addition, both as skillful performer and as experienced and patient teacher. Her book is priceless." Eric Lander, Director at the Whitehead Institute: "Felice Frankel's work conveys the tremendous beauty and excitement of science." At the site, you can read an interview with the author and view pages from the book. Do you like Escher, and the fusion of art and science? [This looks so neat....ok...who wants to buy Nano a gift;)-Nanochick] The MIT Press - Envisioning Science |
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12:41 am EDT, Aug 2, 2002 |
this is a really rad site that Tom and I found....you can make punk pins! Werd! BRO PRINTS |
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Mathematician Fills in a Blank for a Fresh Insight on Art |
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4:03 pm EDT, Aug 1, 2002 |
Escher's goal was to create a cyclic bulge "having neither beginning nor end." Carried to its logical extent, the process would have generated an image that continually repeats itself, a picture inside a picture and so on, like a set of nested Russian wooden dolls. After a recent talk Dr. Lenstra gave at Berkeley, the audience remained seated for several minutes, mesmerized by the spiraling scene. This article goes into some detail about the recently-blogged project using Escher's "Print Gallery". Mathematician Fills in a Blank for a Fresh Insight on Art |
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Official Fake Gimms Website |
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4:00 pm EDT, Aug 1, 2002 |
This is an old friends band. Trippy kinda lounge stuff.. Radiohead and Portishead fans will surley dig. [I am saving this until I get back to my cable modem, but from the sounds of it, I am going to like it:) - Nanochick] Official Fake Gimms Website |
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AP Wire | 07/31/2002 | Bush adviser encourages hacking |
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11:15 pm EDT, Jul 31, 2002 |
"A presidential advisor encouraged the nation's top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers." AP Wire | 07/31/2002 | Bush adviser encourages hacking |
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5:57 pm EDT, Jul 29, 2002 |
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He's standing in a corner of his cluttered San Diego office, holding a gizmo that looks something like a retro-futuristic waffle iron with a portable CD player Velcroed to its back.Are you ready?he asks, then points his invention directly at the head of someone whos just entered the room 10 feet away.Now, can you hear it? Can you hear it? Isnt that unbelievable? What the person across the room hears is, well, unbelievable: all of a sudden, the sound of a waterfall has materialized in his head. And, it turns out, no one else in the room can hear it but him. Its as if the sound is coming out of thin air. As Keanu Reeves said in The Matrix: whoa." This is pretty neat and shady at the same time. I mean, just think of the applications....good....and bad. Hearing is Believing |
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5:51 pm EDT, Jul 26, 2002 |
A great transcription of Richard Hamming's 1986 talk on what it takes to do great work. All I can say is: wow. I'm doing lots of thinking on this now, having read this. Speaks very deeply to my mind of things involved in the work I do. Brilliant paper. [I highly recommend this paper as well...its very cool. (of course..I am a researcher, so it speaks to me....and it may very well speak to you too) - Nanochick:)] You and Your Research |
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Scientists Worry Journals May Aid Terrorists |
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5:30 pm EDT, Jul 26, 2002 |
"The leader of a national scientific organization has sought the advice of the National Academy of Sciences on whether scientific journals should withhold information that may aid bioterrorists or countries contemplating biological warfare." Just for the record...I think this is a horrible idea. I mean, if scientists can't publish all of their findings because of a fear of bioterrorism, then the terrorists have already fucking won. Information needs to be available to reproduce experimental results. Scientists Worry Journals May Aid Terrorists |
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Why you should take a Mac user to lunch - Jul 24, 2002 |
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5:25 pm EDT, Jul 26, 2002 |
"Apple's new rackmount server is just another Unix box -- with big implications for the Linux community. Four million new Unix users a year, that's the MacOS X promise and it's a market full of friends with whom we should be working" Why you should take a Mac user to lunch - Jul 24, 2002 |
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