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Friday, March 25, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The world has ended. Science knows nothing!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
WTF Gap! Inspi(red)? Campaign Red! Seriously!?!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
The Brain Observatory - In Memory of H.M.
History being made in neuroscience. Can't wait to see the Google search of the brain, and all the things to come of this. Check it out it will be live for a few more days!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Superfreakonomics or fact based proofs?
Proof that Superfreakonomics is for entertainment only. It is unfortunate that many readers will believe that Mr. Levitt's proofs include well thought out logic based on facts but RealClimate has proven otherwise.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
When the VIX is low, it's time to go! You've been forewarned.
Peter Schiff: The Coming Dollar Crash « LewRockwell.com Blog
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The Future of Computer Interaction 10/GUI
This has a pretty slick design. I wish I could try it out!
Monday, October 12, 2009
I love Physics! Watch CD's flying around dorm room!
Click picture to watch the full CD experiment video (1m28, 8mb), or check out the best exploding CD here. (6s 2.1mb)
No one of harmed by the experiments, of course, thanks to the fact that on fragmentation, rotating objects break away at a direction perpendicular to their axis of rotation meaning that the entire room was peppered around the CD, but nothing behind or in front of its face could get hit.
Several companies have made the maximum speed CD-Writing standard 48x (see article) instead of 52X or higher due to the fact that at 52x the CD is spinning at 10 000RPM and several CDs have been known to explode at those speeds, destroying the drive and some times sending pieces out from the CD tray. The fastest drivers on the market today employ multiple reading heads to achieve twice, or even 3 times the read rate for the same RPM, so until DVDs take over CD drives still have a lot of room for improvements. Just in case anyone is wondering: if a CD really was to spin at 35000RPM in the drive, it would be possible to read it at 175X :)
Update: Matt e-mailed me the following warning:You'd think a CD could handle 52x, right? After all, they make drives that fast.... but apparently that's not in the Playstation black-disc spec. I tried playing GranTurismo on ePSXe, and it exploded right in the drive!
Shockingly, we all got hit with shards of CD (which were slowed down when they blew the faceplate off my CDROM drive), but the computer was fine, and the CDROM still works today, after dismantling it and removing all the shattered plastic.- Matt Pierce
