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Day 757: Science & Tech News

September 24, 2007

New Dense Zone Within The Earth’s Lower Mantle Proposed: “… research suggests that a section of the Earth’s brittle mantle about 620 to 1,365 miles (1,000 to 2,200 kilometers) deep actually is a ‘transitional zone’ where the rock turns into a strange, incredibly dense state.” Drawing On Air With Haptics In 3D: “By putting on a [...]

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Day 723: Of Interest

August 22, 2007

* So, why is it that Brad Pitt’s housing project moves forward (with time for hot spots and shots), while anything FEMA-related putters along?   The system is heavy and broke, fix it. * Discover Magazine’s Jaron Lanier keeps it real: … Science can declare the approximate limits of its territorial ambitions and be stronger for it. [...]

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Day 721: Great Balls Of Plasma!

August 20, 2007

Japan’s AIST Develops True 3D Image Projector The newly developed device, however, creates “real” 3D images by using laser light, which is focused through a lens at points in space above the device, to create plasma emissions from the nitrogen and oxygen in the air at the point of focus. Because plasma emission continues for [...]

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Day 680: How Google Earth Really Works

July 10, 2007

Mapheads out there will be pleased to read Avi Bar-Zeev’s multi-part series on How Google Earth (Really) Works.  A graphics expert, Bar-Zeev is an original founder of Google Earth and created some of the rendering applications for Second Life and other VR simulators.  After the intro and legalese comes Part 1, The Result: Drawing a [...]

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Day 676: While On The Topic Of Sea Level Rise

July 6, 2007

This reminds me of the time a friend’s student wrote about “seal levels” and “seal level rise” in her homework and tests, and cracked us up. Oh, how we mocked, “Oh, wait until global temperatures rise and Sea World and circuses have a huge influx of seals!” Bad grad student humor, I know. Anyway, here [...]

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Day 575: Google Maps Has Super Zoom

March 26, 2007

GoogleMaps SuperZoom Chad Screenshot – Camel! Geekologie reports: Google Maps apparently has a super zoom function for certain locations. Some of them are additional images inserted for partners like National Geographic, but others are actual satelilite photos of random locations … The original zoom levels were okay, but this is to the point where privacy [...]

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Day 573: GeoPress Experiment

March 24, 2007

Following up on the last two posts, I installed GeoPress on this WordPress site. The installation took under 10 minutes, most of which was spent acquiring Google and Yahoo! Maps API keys and waiting for all of the servers to talk to one another. As a test, let’s map the armed robbery that recently took [...]

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Day 573: OpenSource Mapping Tools On The Web

March 24, 2007

Or what Maitri has been putzing with when not working, reading or blogging. FYI, this post is not an exercise in geekery; it involves free visual mapping tools that anyone at any level of computer expertise can get around, learning a new skill and helping your community and you understand your particular space and its [...]

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Day 555: One Football Field Every 45 Minutes

March 6, 2007

“Louisiana is currently losing approximately 24 square miles of wetlands per year, which is roughly one football field every 45 minutes.” Think about it like this: During the course of one Saints football game, Louisiana may conservatively estimate a loss of four equivalent Superdome greens around us. Please watch this 7-minute animation put together by [...]

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Day 552: Blinded Me With 3D Science!

March 3, 2007

Yesterday came an opportunity to visit the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) in Lafayette, Louisiana. What I expected to be a small research center with a visualization wall and a few researchers turned out to be a $16 million architectural dazzler of a building with the world’s latest merger of supercomputing and immersive visualization technology. [...]

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