December 2010
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Link dump for Thursday, 2010/12/30 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.
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6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Science... →
Science fiction is by far the nerdiest of the fictions, and its bread and butter consists of robot uprisings and unexpected time travel consequences. But for every Martian invasion and…
House of Self-Indulgence: Streets of Fire (Walter... →
Starting your movie by flashing the words, A Rock & Roll Fable” on the screen and ending with the epic bombast of “Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young” are just two of the many attention-getting…
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Agent Advice – What is the biggest query... →
Originally published at fritz freiheit.com blog. You can comment here or there.
For those of you who are in the query process or are thinking about getting into the query process, you may find…
SARTRE project ready to road test car platooning... →
The Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project in Europe aims to develop a wireless system that will allow cars on a public highway or motorway to join in a platoon, or semi-autonomous…
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Originally published at fritz freiheit.com blog. You can comment here or there.
Link dump for Monday, 2010/12/13 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.
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Air bubbles will reduce drag and improve fuel... →
Economist - If you blow a lot of air bubbles under a ship, and keep them coming, âgood things will happenâ, says Steven Ceccio, an expert on bubbles at the University of Michiganâs…
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James Burke: Connections | Watch Free Documentary... →
Connections explores an âAlternative View of Changeâ (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot…
Space Colonization: A Study of Supply and Demand →
Centauri Dreams reports that Dana Andrews proposes a lunar sling for launching metal products to Earth, but goes into greater detail on what any space infrastructure requires going out of the gate: A…
Starship Schematics Database →
Welcome to the Starship Schematics Database. It’s dedicated to the sole purpose of archiving every single starship design ever conceived in the Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Space…
Connections | MetaFilter →
James Burke’s popular television show Connections is available in its entirety online. Connections, which ran in 1978, was a unique take on the question of historical and scientific advancement. From…
Fictional starship sizes compared and calculating... →
Jeremy Keith, one of the instigators of the first Science Hack Day, spent the weekend thinking about the space elevators, a beloved piece of not-yet-existing technology. His hack, Spacelift is an…
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J M McDermott: So, the next step... →
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Lasers could be used to create matter and... →
Arxiv - Pair Creation in QED-Strong Pulsed Laser Fields Interacting with Electron Beams (25 pages) / QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counterpropagating…
Eliminating tooth decay: Breakthrough in dental... →
Dutch professors Bauke Dijkstra and Lubbert Dijkhuizen have deciphered the structure and functional mechanism of the glucansucrase enzyme that is responsible for dental plaque sticking to teeth. This…
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ReWalk robotic exoskeleton to go on sale January... →
ReWalk can help paraplegics to stand and walk - using crutches for stability - when they lean forward and move their upper body in different ways. / Regular usage of the device, which costs about…
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Science Fiction Writing Resources: Sci Fi... →
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Earth and other unlikely worlds: SF v. the Reality... →
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The 100 Most Important Things To Know About Your... →
This list came about when, one day while struggling to develop a character for an upcoming Hunter game, my lovely roommate Nikki looked at me and said something like, “Wouldn’t it be cool to have a…
Ever outward: Robert A. Heinlein’s Have Space... →
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With WikiLeaks, Amazon shows its power over... →
Don’t mistake cloud providers for the Swiss; they aren’t neutral / Amazon is a prominent company in the U.S. Its cloud servers host the U.S. government’s Recovery.gov stimulus spending Web site, and…