'Fog's rollin' in off the East River bank, Like a shroud it covers Bleeker Street, Fills the alleys where men sleep, Hides the shepherd from the sheep.'
domingo, 31 de março de 2013
sábado, 30 de março de 2013
Curious Cat Walks Over Medieval Manuscript
At NG: Meow!! Why does that guy wants a horse? And offers his kingdom? A horse? Meow!!!
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Suspended coffee :-) :-) :-)
Suspended coffee: what a wonderful idea http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/suspended-coffee-what-a-wonderful-idea-8553747.html
Oh la la, ça alors...
Hollande’s TV bid to boost support hit by gloomy data on French deficit and debt http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hollandes-tv-bid-to-boost-support-hit-by-gloomy-data-on-french-deficit-and-debt-8554641.html
quinta-feira, 28 de março de 2013
A must read
The Economist | Climate science: A sensitive matter http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions?frsc=dg%7Cd via @theeconomist
27. .. Bh5+ to the € ¥ £ $ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
China and Brazil sign currency deal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21949615
€2,000,000 Strad still to be found...
Bulgaria violin not stolen Strad http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21957474
The board meeting was indeed well ie timely chosen:-):-):-):-):-):-)
Rolling Stones to play Glastonbury http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21962436
Missing diamond at any medical research center... :-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@:-@
Synchrotron yields 'safer' vaccine http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21958361
A Rede de Ensino Superior está bem estruturada e prepara o País para o futuro?
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Lenôtre - chocolats-de-paques-chocolat-pour-paques-Lenotre
Nb. Il faut aller a Paris...
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BBC Two - The Hollow Crown
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Ps. Recently at TVcine. Hopefully in RTP2 (just because RTP1 would not find it suitable for the generality of PT viewers et al...)
The new synchrotron radiation source at Aarhus: ASTRID2 | e-EPS
I just keep thinking on why some colleagues laugh at me when I suggested a 'local' accelerator as a clear sign of ... well, you know... ''difference'' and ''quality'' labels, to distinguish... Aware of the $$$$$$$ in-flow but ...
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[1303.5953] Dynamical Correlations in the escape strategy of Influenza A virus
Math & flu..............
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Planck map reveals birth, life and death of a cosmos - space - 25 March 2013 - New Scientist
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Ps. Multiverse??????????????..................
BBC News - Queen presents Maundy money at service in Oxford
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Maundy)
Constitutional changes apart, it could be an interesting attitude ''here''...
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[1303.5290] Nanotechnology and Innovation, Recent status and the strategic implication for the formation of high tech clusters in Greece, in between a global economic crisis
Interesting very interesting...
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[1303.5903] How Do We Find Early Adopters Who Will Guide a Resource Constrained Network Towards a Desired Distribution of Behaviors?
Why an autocratic ruling (inc. 'singletons' or by a consortium or sort of, whatever) will never work. And why it is not a ''newsletter-carrier-msg's'' that will sort it out. It is a 'at the source thing'. Not at the distribution of 'here it is, now you can see it'. Too little. Too late.
Mathematically.
Proved.
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[1303.6910] Introducing nanoengineering and nanotechnology to the first year students through an interactive seminar course
It is always nice to see a proper 'matricial' modus operandi, even if in Iwoa, in collaborative teaching. Properly.
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ESO - eso1316pt - Jovens, quentes e azuis
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Ps Obrigado Dra Graça Castelo Branco gci UBI
quarta-feira, 27 de março de 2013
Missing Russia/Eurasia, Arab World, South. Research universities to establish global network
Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe (with images)
Power spectrum from #Planck (red points with errors) showing excellent agreement with standard theory (green line)
Planck and the cosmic microwave background - A quick guide:
What is the cosmic microwave background?
Why is it so important to study the CMB?
When was the CMB first detected?
How many space missions have studied the CMB?
What does the CMB look like?
What is ‘the standard model of cosmology’ and how does it relate to the CMB?
Planck is a European Space Agency space-based observatory observing the Universe at wavelengths between 0.3 mm and 11.1 mm (corresponding to frequencies between 27 GHz and 1 THz), broadly covering the far-infrared, microwave, and high frequency radio domains. The mission's main goal is to study the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang – across the whole sky at greater sensitivity and resolution than ever before. Planck is therefore like a time machine, giving astronomers insight into the evolution since the birth of our Universe, nearly 14 billion years ago.
The cosmic microwave background (or CMB) fills the entire Universe and is leftover radiation from the Big Bang. When the Universe was born, nearly 14 billion years ago, it was filled with hot plasma of particles (mostly protons, neutrons, and electrons) and photons (light). In particular, for roughly the first 380,000 years, the photons were constantly interacting with free electrons, meaning that they could not travel long distances. That means that the early Universe was opaque, like being in fog.
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the furthest back in time we can explore using light. It formed about 380,000 years after the Big Bang and imprinted on it are traces of the seeds from which the stars and galaxies we can see today eventually formed. Hidden in the pattern of the radiation is a complex story that helps scientists to understand the history of the Universe both before and after the CMB was released.
The existence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) was postulated on theoretical grounds in the late 1940s by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Herman, who were studying the consequences of the nucleosynthesis of light elements, such as hydrogen, helium and lithium, at very early times in the Universe. They realised that, in order to synthesise the nuclei of these elements, the early Universe needed to be extremely hot and that the leftover radiation from this ‘hot Big Bang’ would permeate the Universe and be detectable even today as the CMB. Due to the expansion of the Universe, the temperature of this radiation has become lower and lower – they estimated at most 5 degrees above absolute zero (5 K), which corresponds to microwave wavelengths. It wasn’t until 1964 that it was first detected – accidentally – by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, using a large radio antenna in New Jersey, a discovery for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
The first space mission specifically designed to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) was the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), launched by NASA in 1989. Among its key discoveries were that averaged across the whole sky, the CMB shows a spectrum that conforms extremely precisely to a so-called ‘black body’ (i.e. pure thermal radiation) at a temperature of 2.73 Kelvin, but that it also shows very small temperature fluctuations on the order of 1 part in 100,000 across the sky. These findings were rewarded with the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Mather and George Smoot.
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is detected in all directions of the sky and appears to microwave telescopes as an almost uniform background. Planck’s predecessors (NASA's COBE and WMAP missions) measured the temperature of the CMB to be 2.726 Kelvin (approximately -270 degrees Celsius) almost everywhere on the sky. The ‘almost’ is the most important factor here, because tiny fluctuations in the temperature, by just a fraction of a degree, represent differences in densities of structure, on both small and large scales, that were present right after the Universe formed. They can be imagined as seeds for where galaxies would eventually grow. Planck's instrument detectors are so sensitive that temperature variations of a few millionths of a degree are distinguishable, providing greater insight to the nature of the density fluctuations present soon after the birth of the Universe.
The standard model of cosmology rests on the assumption that, on very large scales, the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that its properties are very similar at every point and that there are no preferential directions in space. In this model, the Universe was born nearly 14 billion years ago: at this time, its density and temperature were extremely high – a state referred to as 'hot Big Bang'. The Universe has been expanding ever since, as demonstrated by observations performed since the late 1920s. The rich variety of structure that we can observe on relatively small scales is the result of minuscule, random fluctuations that were embedded during cosmic inflation – an early period of accelerated expansion that took place immediately after the hot Big Bang – and that would later grow under the effect of gravity into galaxies and galaxy clusters.
All you need to know about #Planck: Our #toolkit provides answers & background info on key cosmological topics
What is Planck and what is it studying?
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?
Why is it so important to study the CMB?
When was the CMB first detected?
How many space missions have studied the CMB?
What does the CMB look like?
What is ‘the standard model of cosmology’ and how does it relate to the CMB?
How did the temperature fluctuations get there?
How exactly do the temperature fluctuations relate to density fluctuations?
How is matter distributed in the Universe?
Has the Universe always had such a rich variety of structure?
How did the Universe evolve from very smooth to highly structured?
How can we study the evolution of cosmic structure?
How is the distribution of matter in the Universe described mathematically?
What is the power spectrum?
What is the power spectrum of the distribution of matter in the Universe?
Why are cosmologists interested in the power spectrum of cosmic structure?
What was the distribution of the primordial fluctuations?
How does this relate to the fluctuations in the CMB?
How did seed fluctuations grow into today's cosmic structures such as galaxies and galaxy clusters?
How did the formation of structure effect the CMB?
How is the history of cosmic structure formation encoded in the CMB and power spectrum?
Did the photons travel freely ever since the CMB was released?
What happens when the CMB photons encounter structure in the cosmic web?
Do the CMB photons encounter other particles along their way?
Simple but challenging: the Universe according to Planck.
ESA Science (@esascience) tweetou às 10:47 AM on qui, Mar 21, 2013: Simple but challenging: the Universe according to #Planck. Detailed overview of new results released today: http://t.co/ybarvq0dRw #CMB (https://twitter.com/esascience/status/314689800248631296) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download
And if you want to see all 29 scientific papers, you can see them at...
This short film introduces the pencil-beam scanner, a way of firing protons at tumours with impressive precision
Seniors take physics lessons on the road (or across the parking lot)
Remember! Graduate space-time is just like real space-time, but with added imaginary dimensions!
How sharp is the new map? Find out by comparing with views of our own planet
Why JS was wrong @ the AR c-viva meeting...
The Mughal India exhibition
red 'competition'
Topology and Poincaré Conjecture
State Universities: The Pros and Cons
Speckled eggs & the early universe
can you show that in linear structure formation during matter domination the vorticity decays 1/scale factor?
terça-feira, 26 de março de 2013
Promoting photovoltaic energy in Kenya through training | e-EPS
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Ps why not SPF et al similar @ other's?