New Humanist Blog Naturalism_Org Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi is a $25 computer that is powerful enough to run Quake 3, a pretty intense 3D video game. It plugs straight into a TV with an HDMI output and it's designed to be cheap enough that anyone can buy. So why is the Raspberry Pi foundation, the organization behind this charming device, making the computers in the first place? We spoke with Eben Upton, executive director of the Raspberry Pi foundation to find out why. Here's what we learned: It's primarily intended for the education market. And here's the full interview: BUSINESS INSIDER: Why did you guys want to build such a cheap computer? Eben Upton: We came up with the idea because we'd been interviewing potential undergraduates to come to Cambridge university about 5 years ago. We looked around for reasons why this happened. I started looking for a way you could provide a machine cheaply enough that you could give you children, settling on this $25, $35 price point. BI: So it's a shot at getting kids to learn how to program?
1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology Video Log in Get Smart Cynthia Yildirim 1. Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking. posted 3 years ago bethstratton22 liked this George Clark liked this Mohammad Abdelkhalek liked this Alicia Fitzpatrick liked this Tyler Terrell liked this Amara Vogt liked this Iliya Dgidgi liked this btay13 liked this bktoppers liked this efriede13 liked this Norazma Azmi liked this Mrorangev liked this poopscoop liked this jenniferdeane1665 liked this katherineland4 liked this kilaj128 liked this Janet Bloem liked this bulahula liked this LAHansen liked this Mycroft liked this dubnero liked this jamandagarcia liked this mcanallycarol03 liked this MP Oddity liked this © 2014 Redux, Inc. about redux | contact us | copyright | legal
Celebrate Grav-Mass Here is a video Grav-Mass greeting. On December 25, Isaac Newton's birthday, we celebrate the existence of comprehensible physical laws. Remember, Gravitation is a well-established scientific theory, but Intelligent Falling is just religion pretending to be science. Here's a gallery of Grav-Mass cards that you can contribute to. One way to celebrate Grav-Mass is to decorate a tree with apples and other fruits. Another way to celebrate Grav-Mass, in a group, is by telling each other about scientific knowledge and understanding, or discussing what kind of experiment could answer an unresolved question about the world. There is a Grav-Mass discussion group. We have one Grav-Mass carol, We Three Laws. The Symphony of Science. The Ten Days of Newton. Also, The Galaxy Song by Monty Python. In Bahasa Indonesia: Selamat Hari Gayaberat. I think the idea of Grav-Mass was conceived by science fiction writer James Hogan. Here's info about their family Grav-Mass celebration in 2012.
The Brights Internet Sacred Text Archive Home 'Fabbers' could launch a revolution Lindsay France/University Photography Hod Lipson, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, right, and engineering graduate student Evan Malone work with a Fab@Home machine in the Computational Synthesis Lab in Upson Hall Feb. 22. On the stage is a Lego tire duplicated by the Fab@Home. The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop computer revolution. Hod Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, thinks a little machine he calls a Fab@Home may have the same impact. Some day, Lipson believes, every home will have a "fabber," a machine that replicates objects from plans supplied by a computer. Such machines could evolve from the 3-D printers currently used by industrial engineers for "rapid prototyping." Lindsay France/U. "Fabbing" a Lego tire. Provided The Lego tire on the vehicle.
Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell’s genome. Such technology could enable scientists to design cells that build proteins not found in nature, or engineer bacteria that are resistant to any type of viral infection. The technology, described in the July 15 issue of Science, can overwrite specific DNA sequences throughout the genome, similar to the find-and-replace function in word-processing programs. “We did get some skepticism from biologists early on,” says Peter Carr, senior research staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory (and formerly of the MIT Media Lab), who is one of the paper’s lead authors. The new paper is the result of a seven-year collaboration between researchers in the lab of Joseph Jacobson, associate professor in the Media Lab, and George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. ‘Plug and play’