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The space shuttle Endeavour's 5 year mission to map planet Earth is over. New Zealand and Australia were the last datasets released this week. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most (80%) complete high-resolution digital topographic database of
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In 1983 John Walker drew The Solar System to scale in AutoCAD-86. It was a demonstration of AutoCAD’s floating point database resolution and I remember being shown it when I was at Tech. Everyone was amazed at the precision as they zoomed from Pluto’s orbit down to a
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On a similar theme… AIBO/Dog Attack Movie Experiment: Can a dog tell the difference? Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris is an offshoot of the successful Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo. Both laboratories were created by Sony to perform basic research in computer science and related fields. Via comment
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Just noticed NewScientist.com have added ATOM and RSS feeds for News, Subjects (eg: Life, Space) and Special Reports (EG: Cassini, GM Organisms) but not for my favourite bit: Back Page :-) Link: New Scientist Feeds. NewScientist.com offers XML-based feeds so you can receive updates on your desktop of
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"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" 120 answers, 60,000 words, all worth reading whether you agree or not. Link: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005.
Written in 1998, this works, you can fix traffic (around you)
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Excellent site from Waikato University: The 'Evolution for Teaching' Website Project Evolution for Teaching
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Interesting tale of how New Zealander Ernest Rutherford pioneered the use of radioactive decay to determine the age of ancient objects. Read "Rutherford's time bomb" NZ Herald
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Amazing. So do I... Martin Plimmer and Brian King take a look at the mathematics of the fluke in Beyond Coincidence Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Observer review: Beyond Coincidence by Martin Plimmer and Brian King