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This video was taken by a Chinese student in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, China, during the 7.8 Mw earthquake on May 12, 2008. This video was taken at 14:29pm. The epicenter was at 31.084°N, 103.267°E, in Wenchuan County, Ngawa Prefecture, 90 km northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan, China, with its main tremor so far occurring [...]
In the last few days my interest has been captured by the world of life-streaming. After a few days of nosing around in various online sources I have discovered that we seem to be in the middle of a whirlwind of activity in this area, so it seems like an opportune time to look at [...]
Basically, maglev (magnetic levitation) trains work by switching the magnet in front of a train to one that attracts the train seconds before it reaches that point in the track. As soon as the train reaches that magnet, the next magnet is set to attract the train and the first magnet is set to repel [...]
My biggest indulgence is my computer, and sushi, and foreign travel and . . . eh . . . let me start again. I love my computer. In fact it has become such a part of the way I live that I almost never turn it off. It is one of four – a family [...]
Here is an idea that I think would be very cool. But first let me start with some background. There is a lot talk right now about crowd-sourcing – but what is it? I think it can be best explained by a real world example taken from the first chapter of an excellent book on [...]
If you like what you do for a living then you should be worried, that is unless you are a pervert. Let me explain. Wired Magazine recently published an article about “crowd-sourcing”. In it a professional photographer described how competition in his business had become overwhelming, given the proliferation of high quality photographs on online [...]
I remember seeing a television science reporter, many years ago, describing the Japanese gadget freaks (now known as gadget otaku) that hung around Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. With the same hushed tones used by David Attenborough when approaching a herd of water-buffalo, the reporter described a unique urban sub-culture characterized by an intense pre-occupation with [...]
Merely a century ago it was considered unnecessary for surgeons to wash their hands before performing surgery because the link between germs and infection was unknown. Today, researchers at numerous research institutions such as Princeton and the California Institute of Technology have already succeeded in programming living cells to act as computers. Given the rapidly [...]
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