In 1927, a physics professor named Thomas Parnell launched an experiment on viscous liquids. 85 years later, we’re still waiting for his results. It all began with a funnel, a beaker, and some melted tar pitch.
In 1927, a physics professor named Thomas Parnell launched an experiment on viscous liquids. 85 years later, we’re still waiting for his results. It all began with a funnel, a beaker, and some melted tar pitch.
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World’s longest lab experiment still going strong, via webcam
A facelift for iBooks wasn’t the only change on Apple’s agenda today, as the company’s SVP Eddy Cue has just announced an overhaul of iTunes U. The service, mostly used as a means of delivering lectures to college students, has seen over 700 million downloads since its launch and is now gearing up to offer full online courses from the likes of Duke University, Yale, MIT, amongst others. As an example of this new remote method of learning, the company demoed a Chemistry course at its event, showing an overview, syllabus, credits and even the professor’s office hours
A facelift for iBooks wasn’t the only change on Apple’s agenda today, as the company’s SVP Eddy Cue has just announced an overhaul of iTunes U. The service, mostly used as a means of delivering lectures to college students, has seen over 700 million downloads since its launch and is now gearing up to offer full online courses from the likes of Duke University, Yale, MIT, amongst others. As an example of this new remote method of learning, the company demoed a Chemistry course at its event, showing an overview, syllabus, credits and even the professor’s office hours
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Apple revamps iTunes U and intros dedicated app
This week Aleks Krotoski and Charles Arthur are in the studio, and speak to Professor Alan Winfield of the University of the West of England who is exhibiting at the Science Museum’s Robotville festival this week. Professor Winfield is showing off the research he has done into swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and we ask him about the current cultural acceptance of robotics, and the development of the robotic machines. Aleks and Charles also welcome David Norris, CEO of Blue Cava into the studio this week
This week Aleks Krotoski and Charles Arthur are in the studio, and speak to Professor Alan Winfield of the University of the West of England who is exhibiting at the Science Museum’s Robotville festival this week. Professor Winfield is showing off the research he has done into swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and we ask him about the current cultural acceptance of robotics, and the development of the robotic machines. Aleks and Charles also welcome David Norris, CEO of Blue Cava into the studio this week
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Tech Weekly podcast: Blue Cava’s tracking technology, Robotville at the Science Museum
If you fancy yourself a Stanford (wo)man, but lack the requisite dollars to actually attend, now’s your chance to collect those collegiate bragging rights. Starting October 10th, you can join Professor Sebastian Thrun and Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, in a free, online version of the school’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course. The class covers, “knowledge representation, inference, machine learning, planning and game playing, information retrieval, and computer vision and robotics,” and ambitiously aims to be the largest online AI course ever taught
If you fancy yourself a Stanford (wo)man, but lack the requisite dollars to actually attend, now’s your chance to collect those collegiate bragging rights. Starting October 10th, you can join Professor Sebastian Thrun and Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, in a free, online version of the school’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course. The class covers, “knowledge representation, inference, machine learning, planning and game playing, information retrieval, and computer vision and robotics,” and ambitiously aims to be the largest online AI course ever taught
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Stanford schooling unwashed masses with free online Intro to Artificial Intelligence (video)
Facebook users face a future of rolling around on the floor, dribbling incoherently as they demand approval from passers-by Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have left a generation of young adults vulnerable to degeneration of the brain, we can exclusively reveal for about the fifth time . Symptoms include self-obsession, short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback, according to a ‘top scientist’ with no record of published research on the issue. Repeated exposure to the internet leaves people with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying, ‘Look at me, Mummy,’ or a scientist touting their latest brain-fart in the national press.
Facebook users face a future of rolling around on the floor, dribbling incoherently as they demand approval from passers-by Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have left a generation of young adults vulnerable to degeneration of the brain, we can exclusively reveal for about the fifth time . Symptoms include self-obsession, short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback, according to a ‘top scientist’ with no record of published research on the issue. Repeated exposure to the internet leaves people with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying, ‘Look at me, Mummy,’ or a scientist touting their latest brain-fart in the national press.
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Facebook will destroy your children’s brains | by Martin Robbins @mjrobbins
What were the oceans like before over-fishing? David McCandless visualises the Atlantic’s past It’s hard to imagine the damage over-fishing is wrecking on the oceans
What were the oceans like before over-fishing? David McCandless visualises the Atlantic’s past It’s hard to imagine the damage over-fishing is wrecking on the oceans
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Information is Beautiful: Plenty More Fish In The Sea?
We’ve all spent a good portion of the past few years imagining what we’ll do as soon as we get our hands on our very own 3D printer .
We’ve all spent a good portion of the past few years imagining what we’ll do as soon as we get our hands on our very own 3D printer .
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Vienna University of Technology builds a 3D printer, 3D prints the key to our hearts
Not going to front: we’ve a soft spot in our heart for focused beams of light. We’ve seen ‘em rid the world of its space junk and set the pace of human hearts , and now, they’re taking a leading role in aural advancement.
Not going to front: we’ve a soft spot in our heart for focused beams of light. We’ve seen ‘em rid the world of its space junk and set the pace of human hearts , and now, they’re taking a leading role in aural advancement.
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Lasers let deaf ears pick up what the sonic world is putting down
Although this is not the first time we’ve seen an efficiency increase in blue OLEDs, it’s worth noting that their proposed cap of productivity up to this point was a lowly five percent. It’s exciting to learn, therefore, about a breakthrough by professor John Kieffer and graduate student Changgua Zhen from the University of Michigan, which has resulted in them successfully increasing azure diode power efficiency by 100 percent
Although this is not the first time we’ve seen an efficiency increase in blue OLEDs, it’s worth noting that their proposed cap of productivity up to this point was a lowly five percent. It’s exciting to learn, therefore, about a breakthrough by professor John Kieffer and graduate student Changgua Zhen from the University of Michigan, which has resulted in them successfully increasing azure diode power efficiency by 100 percent
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Scientists improve blue OLED efficiency, don’t promise everlasting light
The use of laser as a means of data transmission is hardly anything new, but the current crop of laser diodes can only handle so much stress, provided that they don’t fail in the first place. Luckily, the geniuses over at the University of Central Florida are about to deliver a smaller yet more intense and more reliable diode, which will lead to many more potential applications even beyond the scope of networking — think cheaper, more effective hair removal. Little is said about how Professor Dennis Deppe’s team made this possible, but once they work out how to optimize the operating voltage for better efficiency, Deppe reckons we’ll see diode-embedded high speed, high bandwidth cables in the shops in four or five years’ time
The use of laser as a means of data transmission is hardly anything new, but the current crop of laser diodes can only handle so much stress, provided that they don’t fail in the first place. Luckily, the geniuses over at the University of Central Florida are about to deliver a smaller yet more intense and more reliable diode, which will lead to many more potential applications even beyond the scope of networking — think cheaper, more effective hair removal. Little is said about how Professor Dennis Deppe’s team made this possible, but once they work out how to optimize the operating voltage for better efficiency, Deppe reckons we’ll see diode-embedded high speed, high bandwidth cables in the shops in four or five years’ time
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University of Central Florida’s miniature laser diode aims to speed up networking
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