Science Category
Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Embrace the remix
I’ve always believed that ideas never exist in a vacuum, that they germinate from other ideas and concepts. Creativity fuels creativity, as seen in a lot of what goes up on art communities like DeviantArt. Unfortunately, copyright laws tend to misrepresent how creative works are perceived, and that often becomes a bag of trouble for [...]
Thursday 09 August, 2012
A message to the Martian voyagers
A few months before his demise in 1996, Carl Sagan, the famed astrophysicist and astronomer known for his famous TV series and book ‘Cosmos’, recorded a poignant message for future Martian wanderers. It’s a message that attempts to understand why we’ve put so much effort, so much passion and so much intelligence into sending a [...]
Wednesday 04 July, 2012
Finding the Higgs Boson and what it means for the universe
So yes, the Higgs Boson has all but been confirmed on this momentous day for physics. This historic announcement has come after months of smashing protons in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at speeds close to that of light and searching the debris for traces of particles that sprang into existence for just a fraction [...]
Friday 07 October, 2011
Why I Love Steve Jobs So Much
I have never owned an Apple product in my life. While the iPhone has always fascinated me, I have never had the overwhelming urge to buy it, simply because I am not a smartphone person at all. I have barely worked on the iMac even. I do not follow Steve Jobs/Apple on Twitter or Facebook. [...]
Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Flying over the face of the Earth
Ever wonder what it feels to fly over the Earth thousands of miles above? The guys at the International Space Station might be able to answer that. Here’s a beautiful time lapse video taken from the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth.
Monday 19 September, 2011
Tacit
Remember Daredevil, the blind superhero that uses his heightened hearing senses as a kind of sonar to ‘see’ things around him? Well, San Francisco-based inventor Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs has built a glove that uses sonar to enable the wearer to sense objects in proximity. Tacit, a sonar-enabled glove signals the proximity of nearby [...]
Tuesday 06 September, 2011
Shoot the boss
Do you hate your boss? Long for the day when someone hands you an AK-47 and lets you perforate the slave driver? Well, Lawrence Costner got his chance at pulling the trigger on his boss as part of a company promo video. Trent Kimbell, CEO of the armoured vehicle company Texas Armoring Corporation shows how [...]
Thursday 14 July, 2011
A tour of the known heavens
A few weeks ago we put up a post about the world’s largest full-sky three dimensional survey of galaxies. The most perfect map of heaven, it contained every galaxy detected from earth. While the map is a detailed cartographic representation of the known universe, it might not really provide you with an idea of the [...]
Tuesday 21 June, 2011
The Internet in 60 seconds
In the minute you take to read this post over 6,600 photos will be uploaded to Flickr, about 70 new domains will be registered, over 1,200 new ads will be created on Craigslist, and more. Here’s what happens on the Internet every 60 seconds. Search engine Google serves more than 694,445 queries 6,600+ pictures are [...]
Wednesday 01 June, 2011
A map of heaven
Looks pretty awesome, huh? What you are looking at is not just an ordinary bunch of neon dot patched together. It is the world’s largest full-sky three dimensional survey of galaxies ever conducted. This map charts out our local cosmos out to a distance of 600 million light years, capturing about 43,000 galaxies. All the [...]
