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Smart Meters, Science and Belief. Annie Tritt for The New York TimesDeborah Tavares, with a sign protesting smart-meter installations, in Sebastopol, Calif.
In researching Monday’s article about opposition to smart meters, I found myself once again facing a dilemma built into environmental reporting: how to evaluate whether claims of health effects caused by some environmental contaminant — chemicals, noise, radiation, whatever — are potentially valid? I turned, as usual, to the peer-reviewed science. But some very intelligent people I interviewed had little use for the existing (if sparse) science. How, in a rational society, does one understand those who reject science, a common touchstone of what is real and verifiable? The absence of scientific evidence doesn’t dissuade those who believe childhood vaccines are linked to autism, or those who believe their headaches, dizziness and other symptoms are caused by cellphones and smart meters. The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic. Ask a computer to add 100 and 100, and its answer will be 200.
But what if it sometimes answered 202, and sometimes 199, or any other number within about 1 percent of the correct answer? Arithmetic circuits that returned such imprecise answers would be much smaller than those in today’s computers. They would consume less power, and many more of them could fit on a single chip, greatly increasing the number of calculations it could perform at once. The question is how useful those imprecise calculations would be. If early results of a research project at MIT are any indication, the answer is, Surprisingly useful.
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Cereals are the staple food in any country, and who can plan or eat a meal without a cereal dish? They are the main sources of carbohydrates and contribute the major portion of energy in any diet. How to Use Your Brain in a Crisis. Err-Bane Truth. Consciousness. Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System.
A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system’s outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth.
“We’ve accumulated 10 years’ more data, double the comets we viewed to test this hypothesis,” said planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “Only now should we be able to falsify or verify that you could have a Jupiter-mass object out there.” In 1999, Matese and colleague Daniel Whitmire suggested the sun has a hidden companion that boots icy bodies from the Oort Cloud, a spherical haze of comets at the solar system’s fringes, into the inner solar system where we can see them.
In a new analysis of observations dating back to 1898, Matese and Whitmire confirm their original idea: About 20 percent of the comets visible from Earth were sent by a dark, distant planet. Open Education. Tech. Crowdsourcing Jobs to a Worldwide Mobile Workforce. A few years ago, Nathan Eagle had a big idea. What if millions of people in poor countries—people who couldn’t find work in their local economies—could become a remote workforce for organizations all over the world? And what if, instead of traveling to do such jobs at call centers or other outsourcing offices in big cities, they could do their work quickly, reliably, and easily through text messages on their mobile phones?
Eagle founded a small startup, Txteagle, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to put the idea to the test. It has struck deals with mobile-phone carriers around the world to pay workers in credits for mobile airtime. Startups Founded by Yahoo Alumni. The amazing success story of redBus. Do Believe the Hype. Stealth Startups. TED. Knowledge Creation. Knowledge Creation. Class Links. Photography. National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010. National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th.
For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate them as well. National Geographic was again kind enough to let me choose some of their entries from 2010 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 47 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature.
Captions were written by the individual photographers. (47 photos total) Earthquake in Chile. MIT Stumbles on a Way to Print Flexible Coatings Made of Microma. Microelectromechanical devices (MEMS) have the potential to enable a wide range of nanomachines.
Unfortunately, MEMS suffer from the critical drawbacks of an expensive manufacturing process, a high rigidity that restricts their use, and a limited pool of suitable materials for construction. Now, it seems that MIT scientists have accidentally solved all those problems by stamping gold MEMS into a sheet of plastic. The happy accident occurred while the researchers tried to develop a new method of printing circuits onto plastic. Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico - The Big Picture. Holy Week, 2010. How to Release the Fear of Failing: 20 Inspiring Definitions for. By Lori Deschene “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything. A Movement: The Akshaya Patra Foundation. H.P. Says New Device Could Transform Chip-Making. Why your wife should be 27% smarter than you. I, like many others, am looking for science to control the world.
Humans have used their instincts for far too long. They have bungled too much. MIT Student Develops $3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Teste. No one really knows why, but for an open wound, simply applying suction dramatically speeds healing times.
(The theory is that the negative pressure draws bacteria out, and encourages circulation.) But for almost everyone, that treatment is out of reach--simply because the systems are expensive--rentals cost at least $100 a day and need to be recharged every six hours. No more. Danielle Zurovcik, a doctoral student at MIT, has created a hand-powered suction-healing system that costs about $3. The device is composed of an airtight wound dressing, connected by a plastic tube to a cylinder with accordion-like folds. Zurovcik originally intended to field-test the device in Rwanda, but then the Haiti Earthquake struck. Higher Education Reimagined With Online Courseware - Education L. Indian Who Built Yoga Empire Works on Politics. TipTop Search Engine. Business : Evolving Twitter ecosystem. News: ePaper | Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous | Engagements | Advts: Retail Plus | Classifieds | Jobs | Obituary | Business Evolving Twitter ecosystem Many new services/tools have refreshed the Twitter world in the recent past.
This edition of NetSpeak presents a handful of such tools/services. The Twitter ecosystem is growing with breakneck speed and it seems more exciting days are in store for us. As announced in the recently concluded Twitter conference ( 0392), Twitter is further strengthening its platform and is rolling out new features helpful for developers. Among the new features announced, ‘@Anywhere', is handy even for ordinary folks. This channel allows the site provider to offer his/her visitors a customised, value-added Twitter experience, directly from his/her site. For researchers, Twitter has recently become an additional means to track content.
8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating. “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. Fiber-optic speeds achieved over copper lines. (PhysOrg.com) -- Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, has demonstrated industry record broadband download speeds of up to 300 Megabits per second using two traditional twisted pair copper telephone lines.
The achievement could extend the use of copper-based broadband networks, which are in wide use around the world, and it could provide another means of providing faster broadband in areas where fiber-optic and other cable technologies are unavailable. French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent said the speeds achieved would enable service providers to use the existing copper-based infrastructure to satisfy demand for fast broadband for home and business users for many years to come. Achieving faster speeds is important for Internet service providers who want to compete with the fundamentally different technology used by cable companies.
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Yes, the Internet is rotting your brain - What to Read - Salon.c. New Software Can Hire, Evaluate, and Pay Workers, Making Human B. Stanford's Autonomous Car Parallel Parks By Sliding Sideways int. Automakers are already mass producing cars that will parallel park themselves, but the rudimentary sensor-based systems on the latest Lexus or Buick have nothing on Junior.
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