Some cool California Institute of Technology images: Is an oil free future possible? Image by European Parliament On Tuesday, 7 December, the Parliament hosts the 9th STOA annual lecture "Is an oil free future possible? – The science, technology and economics of running Europe without oil", focusing on ways to adapt economy and lifestyle to a possible future [More......]
The high atmosphere over the Arctic lost an unprecedented amount of its protective ozone earlier this year, so much that conditions echoed the infamous ozone hole that forms annually over the opposite side of the planet, the Antarctic, scientists say. “For the first time, sufficient loss occurred to reasonably be described as an Arctic ozone hole,” write researchers in [More......]
The Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder[1]) was launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II just a month after the Mars Global Surveyor was launched. After a 7-month voyage it landed on Ares Vallis, in a region called Chryse Planitia on Mars, in the Oxia Palus quadrangle, on 4 July 1997. During its voyage the spacecraft [More......]
Check out these California Institute of Technology images: Parallel Session F Image by AlphachimpStudio - Crowdsourcing Creativity: Combining Ideas in Networks. Jeff Nickerson (Stevens Institute of Technology), Yasuaki Sakamoto(Stevens Institute of Technology). - Do More Edges Help Groups Solve Coordination Problems? Nicholas Weller (University of Southern California), Daniel Enemark (Univ. of California, San Diego), Matthew McCubbins (Univ. of Southern California), – [More......]
Mary B. Kennedy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. Keynote lecture at Neuroinformatics 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. Video Rating: 3 / 5 La investigación comienza con la formulación de algunas cuestiones. Este prolegómeno nos introduce en un mundo aristotélico en conflicto. Presenta las ideas y las personas que revolucionaron el pensamiento cientÃfico desde Copérnico, pasando por Newton, hasta [More......]
Check out these California Institute of Technology images: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space exhibit panorama (Space Shuttle Enterprise) Image by Chris Devers See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article. Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise: Manufacturer: Rockwell International Corporation Country of Origin: United States of America Dimensions: Overall: 57 [More......]
This is a pendulum clock using a pin wheel escapement. Tyler and I made this for our final project for ME71 at The California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ME71 is an introductory machining and design class for Mechanical Engineering majors.
Some cool California Institute of Technology images: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space exhibit panorama (hang glider, Space Shuttle Enterprise) Image by Chris Devers See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article. Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise: Manufacturer: Rockwell International Corporation Country of Origin: United States of America Dimensions: [More......]
A few nice California Institute of Technology images I found: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space Shuttle Enterprise Image by Chris Devers See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article. Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise: Manufacturer: Rockwell International Corporation Country of Origin: United States of America Dimensions: Overall: 57 ft. [More......]
Some cool California Institute of Technology images: IEC Winner Capung Team at Laboratorium UAV University of Colorado Image by U.S. Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia In cooperation with the Institute of Technology Bandung and the Asgar Muda Foundation, U.S. Embassy Jakarta sponsored the Indonesia Entrepreneurship Challenge 2011, which was a nationwide business plan competition. As part of the [More......]
puzzle box with slides and rotary magnetic lock, made for Caltech Ditch Day 2011. Credit to Xemnas2421 for help on the sliding design www.youtube.com Video Rating: 5 / 5
This intro video discusses the use of the Primesense “depth-sensing” camera for creating applications for motor rehabilitation. Following a stroke, brain injury or other form of neurological disorder, a person can naturally interact with game content as part of their physical therapy. The vision is that patients will be more motivated to do therapy when it is embedded in a [More......]
A few nice California Institute of Technology images I found: IEC Winner Capung Team at Yahoo Complex, Sillicon Valley Image by U.S. Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia In cooperation with the Institute of Technology Bandung and the Asgar Muda Foundation, U.S. Embassy Jakarta sponsored the Indonesia Entrepreneurship Challenge 2011, which was a nationwide business plan competition. As part [More......]
awesome prank pulled off by the judges Video Rating: 4 / 5 Nadine Dabby is a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, where she works on DNA nanotechnology and molecular programming in the Winfree Lab. Prior to attending Caltech, she completed a double major in Molecular and Cell Biology and English Literature at UC Berkeley. [More......]
Although NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now in a new animation of the mission. The full, 11-minute animation, at www.youtube.com , shows sequences such as the spacecraft separating from its launch vehicle near Earth and the mission’s rover, Curiosity, [More......]
Check out these California Institute of Technology images: IEC Winner Capung Team with Chris Anderson from 3Drobotics Image by U.S. Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia In cooperation with the Institute of Technology Bandung and the Asgar Muda Foundation, U.S. Embassy Jakarta sponsored the Indonesia Entrepreneurship Challenge 2011, which was a nationwide business plan competition. As part of the [More......]
Complete video at: fora.tv Marcus Chown argues that as more and more ideas are “tacked on” to the original big bang theory, it’s becoming apparent that there is “a really, really big idea missing.” He predicts “someone in the next…10-15 years is going to come up with the missing idea.” —– The two towering achievements of [More......]
