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Road-tested photo gear : Travel Tips. From road-tested tripods to essential photo-related apps, we asked a few well-travelled professional shutterbugs to weigh in on the best gear for snapping photos.
While most of their advice is aimed at travellers that own digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs), their strategies for capturing great images can be of interest to any photographer. Online Education Startup Coursera Lands $16M From Kleiner & NEA, Adds John Doerr To Its Board. It has already been a year since Peter Thiel called public attention to the bubble growing in American higher education.
Yet, the cost of receiving a college degree in the U.S. has continued to grow, as student debt in the U.S. today has pushed north of $1 trillion, with the average debt per student standing at more than $25,000. With the current fiscal trajectory of our educational system now unsustainable, an infusion of new blood has begun to enter the space, and a growing number of startups and entrepreneurs have turned their focus to upgrading education’s legacy infrastructure. In turn, investors now seem ready to provide edtech companies with the type of capital that has typically been reserved for consumer businesses. The latest example of this trend is the Mountain View-based Coursera, one of a growing set of edtech startups looking to combat the rising costs now endemic to higher education with smart, scalable, web-based solutions.
DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. This piece first appeared in the News Review section of The Sunday Times on August 29th 1999.
Memory in the Brain [Interactive] Although most people think of memory as a vault for storing information, it is more like a seamstress who stitches together logical threads into scenes that make sense.
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In this view, a good memory is therefore not one that holds lots of data but that can deftly separate what is useful from what could distract or upset you. Getting rid of what is not necessary—forgetting—is thus an important part of memory and of thought. It is also critical to emotional wellbeing. Gossip.
Numbers: Genomics, From the Human Genome Project to the Fish With the Giant Genome. The Art of Video Games Video. The Physics of Leap Day : Starts With A Bang. “When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.” -Cynthia Heimel Once every four years, the elusive entity that is today — February 29th — comes along. The historical origins and urban legends associated with it are incredibly interesting, but the reason there’s any such thing as Leap Day at all is because of the physics of planet Earth. Image credit: Mrs. Dauger Research, Inc. - Real-Time Visualization of Quantum Atomic Orbitals. Unlike other tools in this category, this program raytraces through a three-dimensional cloud density that represents the wavefunction's probability density and presents its results in real-time (up to 48 frames per second on Mac G3s; even faster on the latest hardware).
The user interface is very interactive and provides a wide degree of flexibility. It contains all 140 eigenstates up to the n=7 energy level and the allowed spectral transitions between those eigenstates. The Mac version also allows a state formed by a superposition (see below) of up to eight of those eigenstates allowing for over 3 trillion possible states and can display a wavefunction as a picture of a cloud, use color as phase, plot in red-cyan left/right for 3D glasses, and slice the wavefunction. Essential Biochemistry. Mechanism of Translation of mRNA by tRNA in Ribosomes.
Protein biosynthesis requires that genes which are coded onto DNA be decoded to the sequence of amino acids which are to be assembled.
The DNA is located in the nucleus of the cell, while the amino acids required for the synthesis are located in the cytosol. The encoded sequence for a protein is transcribed onto a messenger RNA (mRNA) which carries the information in the form of a sequence to the cytosol. Here the transcribed “message” from the DNA is translated by the ribosome to produce the protein. Hence protein biosynthesis involves two crucial steps of TranscriptionTranslation Translation of mRNA is done by the ribosomes which decodes the mRNA sequence and fits the appropriate transfer RNA (tRNA) which contains the appropriate amino acid attached to it.
Home. Magazine Monitor: 10 Things... Technology of Business. History. Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: Religion. Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: Philosophy. Home - The Startup Centre : We are a Hub + Accelerator for Tech Startups. Interactive Games. 1st Place Foldit Seth Cooper, David Baker, Zoran Popović, Firas Khatib, Jeff Flatten Center for Game Science, University of Washington Call it origami for nerds.
Foldit players rack up points for twisting, bending, and canoodling chains of amino acids to make realistic proteins. Foldit takes advantage of the human mind's savvy for solving spatial problems, Cooper says. But Foldit isn't just a fun exercise for puzzle fiends, Cooper says. “I love the way Foldit crowd-sources the power of the people to solve real science problems, a feat that makes it a supremely useful citizen science project,” says challenge judge Tierney Thys.
Puzzles. Introducing complex ions - ligands and bonding.
Radioactivity and Electricity Teaching Resources. Amit Patel’s Home Page. I’m helping people make games, at Red Blob Games, by investigating and explaining game algorithms, especially maps (grids, paths, procedural generation) and simulations (transportation, economics, complex systems, AI).
I’m also building interactive explanations. I find that I learn best when combining the language side of my brain (reading, formulas) with the visual side of my brain (illustrations, interaction). I want to learn not only by reading something or watching something, but by playing with it. Right now I’m mostly focused on small, self-contained articles, but I’m also interested in interactive textbooks. I try to spend one day a week meeting with people working on games, education, big data, or visualization. Places you can find me: I am not at Stanford anymore. For my past lives, read on: Muriel Spark, Novelist Who Wrote 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' Dies at 88. Brownian Motion - The Research Goes On ... 8.3 Laser evaporation of Copper Aerosol 9.
Conclusion 10. References 11. The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham. Humanistic Texts. Movie reviews, essays and the Movie Answer Man from film critic Roger Ebert. The best films of the decade. "Synecdoche, New York" is the best film of the decade.
The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality. This is a blog. There, I’ve said it. I have been resisting saying it — I have always referred to this space as a “column” — not only because “blog” is an ugly word (as are clog, smog and slog), but because blogs are provisional, ephemeral, interactive, communal, available to challenge, interruption and interpolation, and not meant to last; whereas in a professional life now going into its 50th year I have been building arguments that are intended to be decisive, comprehensive, monumental, definitive and, most important, all mine.
In “Changing Places” and “Small World,” the novelist David Lodge fashions a comical/satirical portrait of a literary critic named Morris Zapp, whose ambition, as his last name suggests, is to write about a topic with such force and completeness that no other critic will be able to say a word about it. The job will have been done forever. God vs. Science.
There are two great debates under the broad heading of Science vs. God. The more familiar over the past few years is the narrower of the two: Can Darwinian evolution withstand the criticisms of Christians who believe that it contradicts the creation account in the Book of Genesis? In recent years, creationism took on new currency as the spiritual progenitor of "intelligent design" (I.D.), a scientifically worded attempt to show that blanks in the evolutionary narrative are more meaningful than its very convincing totality. I.D. lost some of its journalistic heat last December when a federal judge dismissed it as pseudoscience unsuitable for teaching in Pennsylvania schools. The Greatest Advice Book of All Time: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca. "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like a blast of triumph Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.
" -- Emerson Today we complete the books of our Advice Bible, adding the last of The Five Greatest Advice Books of All Time. Here is the completed countdown: (5) the Japanese book of Samurai wisdom, Bushido (4) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, (3) The Letters of Emerson (2) Climbing the Blue Mountain by Eknath Easwaran, and now, our Number One, Letters From A Stoic by Seneca, translated by Robin Campbell. For those of you who are wondering about books left off, I excluded religious books, biographies and fiction.
What does a long-dead stoic have to say to us? The last one stuck, and he was condemned to death via suicide. Seneca's stoicism draws its strength from bringing oneself into conformity with Fate and divine will. Modern life leaves us stretched between "what else? " What You'll Wish You'd Known. January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) The trouble with Steve - Mar. 4, 2008. (Fortune Magazine) -- In October 2003, as the computer world buzzed about what cool new gadget he would introduce next, Apple CEO Steve Jobs - then presiding over the most dramatic corporate turnaround in the history of Silicon Valley - found himself confronting a life-and-death decision. Ivy-GMAT - the best GMAT Training / Coaching / Tutoring in Bangalore / Koramangala.
Hyponoetics - Philosophy of Mind and Matter.
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