http://netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/science?feed=rss&pg=3 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "science" on Netvouz http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/16/artnatomy_facial_exp.html The Flash interface enables you to visually explore how the movements of specific muscles contort our faces into emotional expressions <<medicine>> <<anatomy>> emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:05:18 GMT http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs00000565-00/bbs.dunbar.html Keywords Neocortical size, group size, humans, language, Macchiavellian Intelligence Abstract Group size is a function of relative neocortical volume in nonhuman primates. Extrapolation from this regression equation yields a predicted group size for modern humans very similar to that of certain hunter-gatherer and traditional horticulturalist societies. Groups of similar size are also found in other large-scale forms of contemporary and historical society. Among primates, the cohesion of groups is maintained by social grooming; the time devoted to social grooming is linearly related to group size among the Old World monkeys and apes. To maintain the stability of the large groups characteristic of humans by grooming alone would place intolerable demands on t emmineb Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:13:10 GMT http://dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/codebooks.html Code books were used in the era of telegraphs (from 1845 until well into the second half of the 20th century) to shorten telegrams, which were paid for by the word. These books, arranged like dictionaries, would list many useful phrases or even sentences, each with its corresponding code word. One sent the code words, and the recipient of the telegram would have to look up their meanings in his copy of the code book. This could save quite a bit of money on intercontinental telegrams, since the price per word on undersea cable connections was very high. (The word cable means both the actual telegraph cable layed on the ocean bed, and to a cablegram sent over via the ``submarine telegraph,'' and then, as a verb, to send a cablegram, as in ``the arrest warrant emmineb Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:10:01 GMT http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=548#more-548 "Bull nearly single-handedly resurrected the science of supergun artillery" <military> emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:00:27 GMT http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/ "For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian emmineb Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_gallery.html The interior of our bodies is hidden to us. What happens beneath the skin is mysterious, fearful, amazing. In antiquity, the body's internal structure was the subject of speculation, fantasy, and some study, but there were few efforts to represent it in pictures. The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.<<medicine>> emmineb Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:10:28 GMT http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters <<statistic>> <<mathematic>> Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales. Exquisitely printed in two colors on fine archival paper, 22” by 15 emmineb Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:11:50 GMT http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/gallery/ Curvature Flow Starfish Melting Matisse Golden Lamination on the Hexagonal Torus Anosov slice More percolation(Julia Fish) Sierpinski carpet limit set Apollonian movie Cantor set and foliations Napoleon map Mandelbrot zoom movie emmineb Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:41:20 GMT http://www.wikihow.com/Know-When-Ice-is-Safe # Recognize that determining the safety of ice is dependent on a combination of factors, not on one factor alone. Ice safety is determined by assessing the following factors together: * Appearance of the ice - its color, texture and features * Thickness of the ice - there are recommended thicknesses for different uses, which are set out below * External temperature over a period of time and on the day * Snow coverage * Depth of water under ice * Size of water body * Chemical composition of water - whether water is fresh or salty * Local climate fluctuations * Extent of ice emmineb Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:23:24 GMT http://www.muegge.cc/ emmineb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:32:39 GMT