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Friday, March 9, 2012

Coke, Pepsi changing their caramel

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-coke-pepsi-changing-their-caramel-20120309,0,6389104.story

Saturday, March 3, 2012

William Shatner talks microchips in 1976.

O.K. this is interesting from a historical perspective ...

http://www.itworld.com/networking/254854/william-shatner-talks-microchips-1976-film

Monday, February 27, 2012

Tiny, creepy cars of the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eq8ucEaMvk&feature=relmfu

Monday, February 20, 2012

EV highway

I am thinking that a magnetic field would produce a drag on a vehicle. It would also affect non-electric vehicles.

I had a different thought that you could have a moving magnetic field that moves at 55 MPH. The field would pull vehicles, effectively making all vehicles electric.

John Coffey
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From: Trout, Larry R
Subject: EV highway

http://green.autoblog.com/2012/02/14/stanford-envisions-all-electric-highway-that-charges-evs-as-th/

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Scientists-unravel-mystery-of-humongous-space-explosion

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0215/Scientists-unravel-mystery-of-humongous-space-explosion-video

Friday, February 10, 2012

RE: below two miles of ice...

The only reason that it is liquid water (I suppose) is that the tremendous pressure changes the state? Or ice simply floats on water?

John Coffey

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From: Trout, Larry R

‘In the coldest spot on the earth’s coldest continent, Russian scientists have reached a freshwater lake the size of Lake Ontario after spending a decade drilling through more than two miles of solid ice, the scientists said Wednesday…

Lake Vostok, named after the Russian research station above it, is the largest of more than 280 lakes under the miles-thick ice that covers most of the Antarctic continent, and the first one to have a drill bit break through to liquid water from the ice that has kept it sealed off from light and air for somewhere between 15 million and 34 million years.’

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/world/europe/russian-scientists-bore-into-ancient-antarctic-lake.html

Isn’t this how a few horror movies start out.

I just hope we don’t release something our immune systems have never seen before J

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Fwd: computer reading images in mind

'By monitoring the brain activity of people while they watched Hollywood movie trailers, researchers were able to recreate a moving picture similar to the real footage being played.

While the technology is not yet capable of reading our thoughts, it could eventually lead to ways of translating our dreams and memories onto screen.

If it is refined enough the method could even be used to explore the minds of stroke patients, experts said.

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, used MRI scanners to monitor the blood flow in people's brains as they watched films including Madagascar 2, Pink Panther 2 and Star Trek unfold on a screen.

After analysing how the brain's visual centre responded to on-screen movements, the scientists created a computer program which could accurately guess what the person was looking at.

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When the researchers watched a second set of clips, this time Hollywood film trailers, the programme was able to produce an approximate version of what they were watching.

It did this by scanning a library of random YouTube videos, pulling out the most similar clips to what it guessed the person was watching, and blending them together.

Because the program's video library contains just 18 million seconds of footage – a relatively small amount – it is highly unlikely that any clip will be very similar to the real footage.

To combat this problem, the program averages together the 100 shots from the video library that it thinks are the best match.

The result is a blurry but continuous video in which the movements of the shapes on screen reflect the action in the genuine Hollywood trailer.

Prof Jack Gallant, one of the study's authors, said: "We're trying to reconstruct the movie that was seen by searching through a large library of completely different, random movies.

"This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery. We are opening a window into the movies in our minds."'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8781503/Mind-reading-device-recreates-what-we-see-in-our-heads.html