Thursday, September 30, 2010

A New View Of Gravity - Science News

A New View Of Gravity - Science News: "What can you say? It’s just the way things work. All masses attract each other. Maybe to bright middle schoolers you could explain that spacetime is warped by mass. Or, to high schoolers, you could say that without gravity, the laws of physics would differ for people moving at changing velocities. Yet all those increasingly sophisticated answers merely invite another “Why.” As Sir Isaac Newton himself replied in response to similar questions, “hypotheses non fingo.” Which roughly translates as “I don’t have a clue.”"

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion - NYTimes.com

Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion - NYTimes.com: "Those who scored the highest were atheists and agnostics, as well as two religious minorities: Jews and Mormons."

Monday, September 20, 2010

YouTube - Aquafect Glass Flowers & Laminar Jumpers

YouTube - Aquafect Glass Flowers & Laminar Jumpers: "Colorful laminar water streams jumping into a blown glass flower water feature."

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Humanity's digital output: One zettabyte - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source

Humanity's digital output: One zettabyte - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source: "A zettabyte, incidentally, is roughly half a million times the entire collections of all the academic libraries in the United States."

Approaching the Zettabyte Era� [Visual Networking Index] - Cisco Systems

Approaching the Zettabyte Era� [Visual Networking Index] - Cisco Systems: "'Approaching the Zettabyte Era' is part of the Cisco Visual Networking Index, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications. This paper presents some of the key findings of Cisco's global IP traffic forecast and explores the implications of IP traffic growth for service providers. For a more detailed look at the forecast and the methodology behind it, please see the paper 'Cisco Visual Networking Index - Forecast and Methodology 2007-2012.'"