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Stunning interactive map traces the course of the wind | Digg Technology
Wind direction: it's not the most exciting subject we can think of, but visualization designers Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have crafted something truly awe-inspiring from it. Wind Map pulls in hourly data from the National Digital Forecast Database , tracing wind speed and direction in near real-time while providing nationwide maximum and average figures. The result is something remarkably similar to NASA's Perpetual Ocean video, only Wind Map is an interactive, zoomable, and constantly changing project. The designers say they would like to expand the map to cover the entire globe, and want your help to track down global statistics. Viégas and Wattenberg are well known in the field — they created IBM's " Many Eyes " platform before joining Google to lead its "Big Picture" visualization research group. Their work is a mixture of function and beauty, but don't take our word for it — join us in procrastination at the source link below.
An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. Surface wind data from the National Digital Forecast Database . (For those of you chasing top wind speed, note that maximum speed may occur over lakes or just offshore.) These are 1-hour forecasts, downloaded once per hour.
Wind Map
Before the telescope was invented in 1608, our picture of the universe consisted of six planets, our moon, the sun and any stars we could see in the Milky Way galaxy. But as our light-gathering capabilities have grown, so too have the boundaries of the visible universe. Our interactive map shows how the known universe has grown from 1950 to 2011. In the late 1700s, William Herschel, an English astronomer using a telescope with an 18.7-inch aperture, made the first systematic surveys of the skies, revealing more than 2,000 distant galaxies, nebulae and other objects invisible to the naked eye. Since then, increasingly powerful optical and radio telescopes have greatly expanded our store of knowledge.
The Visible Universe, Then and Now | Popular Science
Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bitly, examined links to 600 science pages and the pages that those people visited next : The results revealed which subjects were strongly and weakly associated. Chemistry was linked to almost no other science. Biology was linked to almost all of them.
What topics science lovers link to the most
Bestiario , the group behind 6pli and a number of other network projects , released their most recent project - Canvi & Temps - that explores the complexity of science since the early 1920s. The first part, Temps , is two linked charts stacked on top of each other. On top are individual articles and on bottom are tags that provide context to those articles. You'll probably be tempted to read the visualization as a stacked area chart, but that wouldn't quite work.
Canvi & Temps: An Exploration of Science Over Time
Canvi & temps are two network browsing spaces built from a compilation of articles, pages, persons and links, all related with complexity in science. The research was carried out by Pau Alsina, Josep Perelló, Michele Catanzaro, Pere Monràs, Carles Tardío, Oriol Vallès, Irma Vilà and Santiago Ortiz. The project is in display at Arts Santa Mónica , in the context of a Cultures of Change exhibit. This historical (it includes citations since 1927) and transversal (it contains more than 30 categories of fields of knowledge) research offers and ample vision of the collection of aproaches, strategies and tactics, reseach methods and interests known as complexity science. Canvi & Temps offer two different ways of experiencing the contents of the network and its interrelations.
New project: Canvi & temps
Portrait vers 1850 Étienne-Jules Marey , né à Beaune le 5 mars 1830 et mort à Paris le 15 mai 1904 , est un physiologiste français . Considéré à son époque comme un touche-à-tout atypique, il est un pionnier de la photographie et un précurseur du cinéma . Il fait ses études secondaires à Beaune , puis ses études de médecine à Paris, de 1849 à 1859 . De 1869 à 1904 , il est professeur au Collège de France , et titulaire de la chaire d'Histoire naturelle des corps organisés.
Étienne-Jules Marey - Wikipédia
Colorectal cancer refers to cancer of the colon and cancer of the rectum. The colon is the longest part of the large intestine, and the rectum is the last several inches of the large intestine, closest ...
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Scientists have created the world's first video animation of the female orgasm, using a series of brain scan images. To capture the brain activity, researchers monitored a woman's brain as she lay in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and stimulated herself. Psychologists at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where the study was conducted, hope the research will help them to understand the reasons why some men and women cannot reach sexual climax. Researcher, Professor Barry Komisaruk, who presented the findings at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington DC on Monday, told the Guardian:
Female Orgasm Captured In Brain Scan Animation (VIDEO)
Cartographies des connaissances scientifiques » OWNI, News, Augmented
Comment cartographier les sciences? De la "Métaphysique" d'Aristote à la classification de Dewey, le classement des savoirs est un enjeu philosophique majeur. Raphaël Velt retrace les cartes historiques et s'intéresse à leurs utilisations.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory - Animations and images featuring NOAA's remotely-sensed data
The U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook (lower right image) for May 3 – July 31, 2012 is based on short-, medium-, and long-range forecasts, initial conditions, and climatology. Since the release of the previous Drought Outlook issued on April 19, 2012, a slight expansion of drought occurred in the Tennessee Valley and lower Ohio Valley while drought conditions intensified across the interior Southeast.Nouvelle éruption du Mont Saint Helens... en 3D
Des volcanologues ont créé la toute première simulation en 3D de l’éruption cataclysmique du Mont Saint Helens aux Etats-Unis, qui avait tué 57 personnes il y a 31 ans. Ce système pourrait sauver des vies à l’avenir en aidant les chercheurs à anticiper les scénarios d'éruptions soudaines de volcans endormis. "Pour améliorer nos connaissances sur le fonctionnement des volcans, il est indispensable de visualiser les éruptions en trois dimensions" , a expliqué la volcanologue Amanda Clarke de l’Arizona State University, qui a co-dirigé cette nouvelle étude sur le Mont Saint Helens. Ce volcan de l’Etat de Washington avait commencé à trembler deux mois avant son éruption historique. Ainsi, le 18 mai 1980, un séisme de magnitude 5,1 réveille le Mont Saint Helens.dataviz
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Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner.