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Mirage effect from thermally modulated transparent carbon nanotube sheets
The single-beam mirage effect, also known as photothermal deflection, is studied using a free-standing, highly aligned carbon nanotube aerogel sheet as the heat source. The extremely low thermal capacitance and high heat transfer ability of these transparent forest-drawn carbon nanotube sheets enables high frequency modulation of sheet temperature over an enormous temperature range, thereby providing a sharp, rapidly changing gradient of refractive index in the surrounding liquid or gas. The advantages of temperature modulation using carbon nanotube sheets are multiple: in inert gases the temperature can reach > 2500 K; the obtained frequency range for photothermal modulation is ~ 100 kHz in gases and over 100 Hz in high refractive index liquids; and the heat source is transparent for optical and acoustical waves.
Program or be programmed: ten commands for a digital age - Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff was born on February 18, 1961. After graduating from Princeton University he received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts.
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There is yet another new wave of start-ups emerging in the educational technology space and like those that came before, most of this new wave neglects to address some critical issues. Every few years, a new set of companies comes out with what they refer to as, “the next wave in digital education.” However, these “new” methods and technologies are rarely actually new. Experienced educators who have followed the evolution of digital education since its inception over fifty years ago, have seen it all. The new distribution technologies offered by the new web don’t actually enable new pedagogies that haven’t been tried yet. Since the mid-1980s, there has been adequate technology and tools available to allow us to try out the entire array of pedagogical theories.
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Create Your Own Programming Language
Table of Contents What's a Programming Language? Why We Need another Programming Language JavaCC Java Reflection Eclipse Configuration Programming Language Example (Name: St4tic) 6.0- Grammar 6.1- Code Generating 6.2- Using Reflection 6.3- Core Creation 6.4- Making Interpreter System:out:println(1 + var) Summary Reference 1- What's a Programming Language?
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-68747" title="invisible" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/01/invisible.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="371" /> Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, managed to hide an event for 40 picoseconds (those are trillionths of seconds, if you’re counting). They’ve published their groundbreaking research in this week’s edition of the journal Nature . This is the first time that scientists have succeeded in masking an event, though research teams have in recent years made remarkable strides in cloaking objects.
Pentagon Scientists Use 'Time Hole' to Make Events Disappear | Danger Room
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Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical
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Behind the TED Talk With more than a billion views, TED Talks have become a powerful cultural force. But it all starts with a single person on a stage ... At TED2010, we sent a video crew to follow two speakers as they prepared to give the talk of their lives.
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