December 11, 2011
“The Swallow’s Tail — Series on Catastrophes (French: La queue d’aronde — Série des catastrophes) was Salvador Dalí’s last painting. It was completed in May 1983, as the final part of a series based on René Thom’s catastrophe theory.” Link to the Wikipedia entry.

“The Swallow’s Tail — Series on Catastrophes (French: La queue d’aronde — Série des catastrophes) was Salvador Dalí’s last painting. It was completed in May 1983, as the final part of a series based on René Thom’s catastrophe theory.” Link to the Wikipedia entry.

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December 8, 2011
“ Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated flight-control functions. These have the potential to remove a great deal of uncertainty and danger from aviation. But they also remove important information from the attention of the flight crew. While the airplane’s avionics track crucial parameters such as location, speed, and heading, the human beings can pay attention to something else. But when trouble suddenly springs up and the computer decides that it can no longer cope—on a dark night, perhaps, in turbulence, far from land—the humans might find themselves with a very incomplete notion of what’s going on. ”
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics (via lispmeister)
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December 7, 2011

Tacoma Narrows Bridge about to collapse (by cheetah)

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“All the units were connected by the maze of wires shown in the photo of FitzHugh operating the computer. The wires protrude from an insulated board, underneath which they made contact with terminals connected to the various units. To change the connections on the board, for a different problem, it was disengaged from its position, exposing the terminals behind. The computer power supply delivered voltages from -100 volts to 100 volts, and if one of the terminals was accidentally touched, one might receive a nasty shock. The first thing to do in the morning was to turn on the computer and let it warm up until the voltages from the power supply stabilized. Then computation could begin.” (via FitzHugh-Nagumo model - Scholarpedia)

“All the units were connected by the maze of wires shown in the photo of FitzHugh operating the computer. The wires protrude from an insulated board, underneath which they made contact with terminals connected to the various units. To change the connections on the board, for a different problem, it was disengaged from its position, exposing the terminals behind. The computer power supply delivered voltages from -100 volts to 100 volts, and if one of the terminals was accidentally touched, one might receive a nasty shock.
The first thing to do in the morning was to turn on the computer and let it warm up until the voltages from the power supply stabilized. Then computation could begin.” (via FitzHugh-Nagumo model - Scholarpedia)

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December 3, 2011
The Debunking Handbook

found:

… should be mandatory in every school curricula (PDF link). (via Boing Boing)

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December 1, 2011

Simulation of millisecond protein folding: NTL9 (from Folding@home) (by PandeScience)

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November 26, 2011
Realidades habitables (by : : PINE : :)

Realidades habitables (by : : PINE : :)

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November 20, 2011

Wooden Shjips - Black Smoke Rise (Live on KXLU)

(Source: youtube.com)

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November 12, 2011
freshphotons: Vienna, Austria. Boltzmann’s Tomb in the Zentralfriedhof.

freshphotons:

Vienna, Austria. Boltzmann’s Tomb in the Zentralfriedhof.

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October 30, 2011
Spherical tensegrity cell model

Spherical tensegrity cell model

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