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Joseph Gale, “Astrobiology of Earth: The Emergence, Evolution and Future of Life on a Planet in Turmoil ” Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-05-15 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0199205809 | PDF | 3,2 MB The study of life in our universe has been given the name ‘astrobiology’. It is a relatively new subject, but not a new discipline since it brings together several mature fields of science including astronomy, geology, biology, and climatology

Okay, I’m not even going to try and explain this, but suffice it to say that IBM and STanford University have come up with a recipe to make green plastic, currently one of the most toxic substance EVER created by man. Here’s a quote from the Cnet post: “In terms of real-world application, the science could lead to plastics becoming endlessly recyclable rather than junk in a landfill.” That sounds pretty good to me! [via Cnet ]

(Cross-posted from the Google.org Blog ) What do tracking flu, helping consumers monitor their home electricity use, slowing deforestation and perhaps most importantly in 2010, helping the people of Haiti have in common?

Sid The Science Kid: The Ruler of Thumb (2009) DVDRip English | 115 minutes | AVI XViD 624×352 1615kbps | Mp3 134kbps 48khz | 1.59 GB Genre: E-Learning | For Kid So many chores, so little time! If Sid doesn’t fill his chore chart with stickers, he’ll never get that new Turbo-Mega-Rocket Ship toy. What’s so important about a chart anyway? Sid soon learns that charts are great science tools for comparing and contrasting things like snacks, pets and even chores! When playing with a rolie polie bug, Sid discovers another amazing science tool – the magnifying glass! Now, Sid can see a whole new world through his magnifying glass and finds that bigger is better! Sid learns all about science tools like rulers and magnifying glasses and how they help us

The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It fea.. (more…)

I posted a video from 60 Minutes the other day about Bloom Energy’s Bloom Box, green energy system. On Wednesday they held a press conference to unveil the tech. I’m not even going to try and explain the science! Here’s a video from Cnet, and a link to Gizmodo which has a great post which helps to explain how it all works.

As the world’s premier athletes assembled in Vancouver for the Winter Games, Googlers in the equally snowy Zurich, Switzerland were preparing for a prestigious event of a different sort. On February 8, 100 top academics from 62 leading universities throughout EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) descended upon our Zurich engineering headquarters for our third annual Faculty Summit — three days of in-depth technical presentations, discussions and networking sessions, all targeted at strengthening partnerships with EMEA’s foremost computer science thinkers. Like their athletic counterparts in Vancouver, Faculty Summit attendees face big challenges

Molecule Structure Necklaces combine science and art! Above is serotonin(left) and caffeine(rig.. (more…)

The world treasury of science fiction Publisher: Little Brown & Co 1989 | 1104 Pages | ISBN: 0316349410 | PDF | 67 MB SF historian and editor Hartwell, who in little more than a year has produced massive anthologies of horror ( The Dark Descent ) and fantasy ( Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment ), now performs a similar service for SF readers with this chest-denting, 1100-page volume. He has brought together 53 selections, virtually every one of high quality, fully a third from Europe, Asia or Latin America. Among the best stories in this first-rate collection are J

Scientific Computing – AMATH 581 (30 Lecture, 50 minutes/lecture) | English | WMV3 480×360 (4:3) @407Kbps | WMA 32Kbps 44Khz | 5.85Gb Applied Mathematics | Prof. Kutz | University of Washington Project-oriented computational approach to solving problems arising in the physical/engineering sciences, finance/economics, medical, social and biological sciences. Problems requiring use of advanced MATLAB routines and toolboxes