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Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...

Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-14

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VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit

Not to defend detroit but......but you can't possibly believe that the companies you list are real contenders in the US market. Tesla? Come on. Have you looked at the prices they list on their web site? Their cheapest car starts at $50 grand. Anyone looking for...

Tags: OK IT, global warming, Tesla

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

The media have been wrong on climate change before...

The media have been wrong on climate change before...Newsweek often wrongMentioned elsewhere ...Newsweek has often gotten stories wrong.I stopped taking them seriously when they took the premise of Jurassic Park seriously.Cooling was not as big a concern to scientists of the 70's as the business and media institute think.See these...

Tags: carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Fatties are smokers

Fatties are smokersStep 1Indoctrinate into the health issues of being overweight.Step 2. Socialize medicine so everyone bears the cost.Step 3. Use step 2 to claim moral authority to control what you eat.Step 4. Sit back and smile as a nation full of useful idiots go along with your plans to...

Tags: Vertical industries, fatty, BMI, Fatties

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least

Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the leastArctic Ice can not effect sea level"What If All the Ice Melts?" Myths and Realities (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Physics)http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html[b]"[i]Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01 % Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change...

Tags: ice, Arctic, RealClimate.org

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liability

WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liabilitybluetooth aint infra-redhowdy mr. murphy,um, er, your said ..."Bluetooth (the infra-red communication standard for mobile phones)"... and that's SO wrong! [*grin*] i dang near snorted my iced tea thru my nose. it's 2.4ghz radio. lookee ...http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Technology/Works/Compare/take care,leeRE: WiFi, Cancer, and Legal LiabilityGiven the penetration of the...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, cell phone, radiation, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-26

Have you tried the IHOP diet?

Have you tried the IHOP diet?Where this diet challenges...I do agree that W.H. Kellogg is spinning in his grave. His call for lighter breakfasts a century ago has been the basis of diet kant ever since.But my own life agrees with this diet's premise. A good breakfast keeps the snack...

Tags: IHOP, breakfast, carbohydrate, diet

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Too green? Too much information? Global warming a natural process? Give up yet?

Too green? Too much information? Global warming a natural process? Give up yet?...Disprove evolution.Disprove global warming.Then come back to us, until then shut up! You've got nothing but ill founded beliefs and theories as well.And round and round we go... when will the denial and ignorance end? When...

Tags: David Archibald, global warming

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Robots to control oil drilling platforms

In 2015, and if everything goes well, oil drilling platforms located offshore Norway will be controlled by robots. Even today, these platforms don't use many people. But the idea behind the new platform concept is to install large modular process sections in unmanned areas to allow access by one or...

Tags: Platform, Robot, SINTEF, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-25

Bridge traffic powers its monitoring sensors

Researchers at Clarkson University, NY, have developed wireless bridge sensors which work without batteries. Instead, they are powered by the vibrations caused by passing traffic. This is good news for all the people in charge of maintaining bridges, who will no longer to have to replace batteries installed in hard-to-access...

Tags: Researcher, Monitoring, Sensor, Clarkson University, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Liquid drops defying gravity

Researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, have shown that droplets of liquid can travel uphill when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate. 'In fact, if the plate vibrates at the right rate, the droplets will always travel counter-intuitively up the incline.' This very interesting discovery will not change...

Tags: Plate, Droplet, Workforce Management, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Human Resources, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Locating an earthquake in 5 minutes

When a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Java on August 8, 2007, it took exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds to be detected, located and sized by the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System GITEWS currently under construction in Indonesia. Even more remarkable, the location of the earthquake was found after...

Tags: Tsunami, Sensor, Indonesia, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-15

A pollution indicator on our car dashboard?

This might soon be possible according to researchers at the University of Manchester. They've designed a near-infrared diode laser sensor able to record levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane directly from your car's exhaust. Their device could be one day incorporated into onboard diagnostic systems and be permanently...

Tags: Diode, Researcher, Exhaust, Pollution, Dashboard, Laser, Diode Laser Sensor, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Silicon Valley goes dark again

Silicon Valley goes dark againEuropeans are afflicted with same diseaseEuropeans are afflicted with same disease, it's called NIMBY Not in my back yard.Ironically the French are there to bail them out Nuclear power.Socialist Republic of CaliYou nailed it George, people cant have it both ways. Im all for new...

Tags: Government, uranium, Now IT

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

When robots see red

We use all of our senses to interact with our environment. Our brain and our body work together, but are robots designed in a similar way? An Indiana University neuroscientist and a University of Tokyo roboticist have worked together with real and simulated robots to verify that valid information doesn't...

Tags: robot, Olaf Sporns, DOF

Blog posts 2006-10-28

A microscope creating 3-D images

A microscope built in the UK is the first in the world to produce 3-D internal pictures of objects. This microscope combines two techniques, X-ray microtomography -- which produces 3-D images from a large set of 2-D images -- and time delay integration -- which generates better images than other...

Tags: microscope

Blog posts 2006-05-04