August 31, 2009 by alikat.

“(uncw.edu)–Aquarius is an underwater ocean laboratory located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The laboratory is deployed three and half miles offshore, at a depth of 60 feet, next to spectacular coral reefs. Scientists live in Aquarius during ten–day missions using saturation diving to study and explore our coastal ocean. Aquarius is owned by NOAA and is operated by the NOAA Undersea Research Program’s (NURP) Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.”

Aquarius Home

Live Webcams (only available during missions)

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Aquarius Reef Base (ReefBase) on Twitter

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August 30, 2009 by alikat.

No Matrix??!!

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August 30, 2009 by alikat.

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August 26, 2009 by alikat.

“(sciencenews.org)—According to Jan Souman of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, given no external cues to direction, people trying to walk straight over unfamiliar terrain end up doing intermittent loop-de-loops, Souman and his colleagues report in a paper published online August 20 in Current Biology.” read more

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August 25, 2009 by alikat.

“(guardian.co.uk)–It is 400 years since Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope, which would lead him to make new astronomical observations” read more

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August 25, 2009 by alikat.

image by Mick Petroff via wired.com

“(wired.com)–These long, crazy-looking clouds can grow to be 600 miles long and can move at up to 35 miles per hour, causing problems for aircraft even on windless days.” read more

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August 25, 2009 by alikat.

Aug. 25, 1991: Kid From Helsinki Foments Linux Revolution

“(wired.com)–1991: Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old university student from Finland, writes a post to a user group asking for feedback on a little project he’s working on. He’s built a simple kernel for a Unix-like operating system that runs on an Intel 386 processor, and he wants to develop it further. The kernel eventually becomes Linux, which is released in 1994 and distributed over the internet for free.” read more

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August 22, 2009 by alikat.

“(news.bbc.co.uk)–A train-mad youngster has landed his dream job as "director of fun" at the [British] National Railway Museum in York.Six-year-old Sam Pointon from Leicester wrote to the museum and applied to replace retiring director Andrew Scott. “ read more

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August 22, 2009 by alikat.

“(news.bbc.co.uk)–The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore’s Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines. Given such permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod. Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And it has been in use every year of those four decades and today is getting more attention than ever before. “ read more

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August 13, 2009 by alikat.

“(huffingtonpost.com)–In an editorial on July 31, Investor’s Business Daily warned of end-of-life counseling in health care reform by saying people like Stephen Hawking "wouldn’t have a chance" in the such a system.

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.” read more

Oops, Professor Hawking is British!

A response from the U.K.:

“(guardian.co.uk)–Who cares if Professor Stephen Hawking lives or dies. Actually, we all do” read

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