NASA's Juno Spacecraft Headed to Jupiter Friday This Friday a NASA spacecraft is slated to launch on a five-year journey to Jupiter. When it arrives, the craft will probe deeper into the gas giant planet than any previous mission, searching for the unseen core hidden below the thick atmosphere. It will also endure the solar system's strongest radiation zone to study the origins of the giant auroras that dance across Jupiter's poles. The probe—dubbed Juno—will blast off from Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket, starting a 400-million-mile (644-million-kilometer) trek. When it arrives at Jupiter in 2016, the spacecraft will spend about one Earth year making 33 elliptical polar orbits, skimming as close as 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the clouds. Watch NASA video about the Juno mission. Carrying a suite of eight main science instruments, Juno will collect data on Jupiter's atmosphere that may be key to understanding the birth of our cosmic neighborhood. "It has that same feel. Jupiter Water May Offer Clues to Planet Birth
Pranav Mistry Pranav Mistry (born 1981) is an Indian computer scientist and Inventor. At present, he is the head of Think Tank Team and Vice President of Research at Samsung. He is best known for his work on SixthSense and Samsung Galaxy Gear.[1] His research interests include Wearable Computing, Augmented reality, Ubiquitous computing, Gestural interaction, AI, Machine vision, Collective intelligence and Robotics. World Economic Forum honored Mistry as one of the Young Global Leader 2013. Education and research[edit] He is from Palanpur, which is situated in northern Gujarat in India. Career[edit] He joined Samsung electronics as the Director of Research in 2012, and now serves as the Vice President of Research and leads the Think Tank Team. Before joining MIT, Pranav worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft.[3] Inventions[edit] Recognition[edit] Awards and achievements[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Jonah Lehrer Jonah Richard Lehrer[1][2] (born June 25, 1981) is an American author, journalist, blogger, and speaker who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities. He has published three books, two of which, Imagine and How We Decide, were withdrawn from the market by publishers after it became known that Lehrer had fabricated quotations. This led to his resignation from his staff position at The New Yorker following disclosures that he had recycled earlier work of his own for the magazine. Personal life[edit] Lehrer owns the historic Shulman House in Los Angeles, California.[9][10][11] He is married to Sarah Liebowitz, who worked as a journalist, and the couple has one child.[3] Books[edit] Lehrer is the author of three best-selling books: Proust Was a Neuroscientist (2007), How We Decide (2009), and Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012). Controversy and criticism[edit] Writing[edit] Plagiarism and quote fabrication scandal[edit]
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Press Releases PASADENA, Calif. – After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. On Aug. 9, the golf cart-sized rover relayed its arrival at a location named Spirit Point on the crater's rim. Opportunity drove approximately 13 miles (21 kilometers) since climbing out of the Victoria crater. "NASA is continuing to write remarkable chapters in our nation's story of exploration with discoveries on Mars and trips to an array of challenging new destinations," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "Opportunity's findings and data from the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory will play a key role in making possible future human missions to Mars and other places where humans have not yet been." Endeavour crater, which is more than 25 times wider than Victoria crater, is 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter. NASA launched the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity in the summer of 2003.
Simon Anholt Bio Bio in brief Vivek Wadhwa is a Fellow at Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and Distinguished Fellow at Singularity University. He is author of ”The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent”–which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012. Wadhwa oversees research at Singularity University, which educates a select group of leaders about the exponentially growing technologies that are soon going to change our world. In his roles at Stanford and Duke, Wadhwa lectures in class on subjects such as entrepreneurship and public policy, helps prepare students for the real world, and leads groundbreaking research projects. Bio at length Wadhwa has also researched diversity in Silicon Valley–or the lack of it.
Final Space Shuttle Crew Leaves Plaque on Atlantis | NASA Space Shuttle Prog... HOUSTON — Chris Ferguson almost forgot to leave it on board. Caught up in the moment of having just landed the space shuttle, ending NASA's 30 year shuttle program after 135 flights, commander Ferguson followed his crew out of shuttle Atlantis and only then realized he had forgotten about the plaque. "If I was as clear thinking as I wish I was right after landing, I would have put it right on there but I had to have someone run back and pull it out of my saddlebag and put it on there for me," Ferguson said Friday (July 22), a day after landing, after his return home to Houston. The small plaque, which was sized to fit perfectly over the center display screen in Atlantis' cockpit, was already a bit of an "afterthought" by the STS-135 crew, one devised with the help of the astronauts' simulator training team. "The inscription is from the heart," said Ferguson. "A lot of people think that the astronauts live in Florida and that we rub elbows with these folks every day. Keeping the dream alive
The Good Country Index Ray Kurzweil Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and is a director of engineering at Google. Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, as has been displayed in his vast collection of public talks, wherein he has shared his primarily optimistic outlooks on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. Life, inventions, and business career[edit] Early life[edit] Ray Kurzweil grew up in the New York City borough of Queens. Kurzweil attended Martin Van Buren High School. Mid-life[edit] Later life[edit] Personal life[edit]
Catalog Page for PIA01907 Click on the image forSpirit's Winter Panorama Labeled Version Since April of 2006, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been sojourning in a place called "Winter Haven," where the robotic geologist spent several months parked on a north-facing slope in order to keep its solar panels pointed toward the sun. During that time, while the rover spent the daylight hours conducting as much scientific research as possible, science team members assigned informal names to rock outcrops, boulders, and patches of soil commemorating exploration sites in Antarctica and the southernmost islands of South America. Antarctic bases are places where researchers, like the rovers on Mars, hunker down for the winter in subzero temperatures. This full-color mosaic of images acquired by the rover's panoramic camera shows the various features of the landscape near Spirit's "Winter Haven" and the informal names used to identify them.
Laura Khalil Terminals are basic, kinda ugly and wonderfully utilitarian. If you’ve ever thought about “tricking out” your terminal, there’s only so much you can do from the terminal application preferences pane. Changing the background and you can go all black window on green text, “super1337haxor living in the Matrix” style, but that’s as exciting as it gets. Taking a few more steps, you can transform your terminal into a snazzy window, with awesome colors and welcoming ASCII art. This tutorial is aimed at Mac users that have Homebrew installed. If you’re on Linux, I assume you’re smart enough to figure it out. Here’s how to go from dull to dazzling in your terminal window: 1. Once this has installed, in the terminal, type:fortune Keep running it and see all the awesome fortunes that you’ll get! 2. From the terminal, run this command:brew install lolcat Once lolcat has installed, try runningfortune | lolcat Pretty cool, huh! Let’s take it a step further — ASCII ART!! Sidenote: This stuff is amazing. ls -a
ESMD New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions Most self-respecting starships in science fiction stories use antimatter as fuel for a good reason – it’s the most potent fuel known. While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, just tens of milligrams of antimatter will do (a milligram is about one-thousandth the weight of a piece of the original M&M candy). Image right: A spacecraft powered by a positron reactor would resemble this artist's concept of the Mars Reference Mission spacecraft. Antimatter is sometimes called the mirror image of normal matter because while it looks just like ordinary matter, some properties are reversed. When antimatter meets matter, both annihilate in a flash of energy. Previous antimatter-powered spaceship designs employed antiprotons, which produce high-energy gamma rays when they annihilate. Image left: A diagram of a rocket powered by a positron reactor. It will be safer to launch as well.