A Historical Sense
What Sanskrit has meant to me
Aatish Taseer
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/a-historical-sense
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Monday, August 19, 2013
Sunday, August 18, 2013
FW: Flower parade in Holland, a must see
Friday, August 16, 2013
Hyperloop.... rapid travel
Elon Musk's Hyperloop concepts revealed...
800 miles/hr transport system!
http://news.discovery.com/autos/future-of-transportation/elon-musk-hyperloop-details-revealed-130812.htm
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800 miles/hr transport system!
http://news.discovery.com/autos/future-of-transportation/elon-musk-hyperloop-details-revealed-130812.htm
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Misc reads...
*Guy who knows 29 languages*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/way-with-words/article5014933.ece
*Do you use paper/pen/pencil .... ?*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/back-to-school/laptops-in-class-lowers-students-grades-canadian-study/article13759430/
*Ambient Backscatter -- Wireless communication without batteries!*
http://abc.cs.washington.edu/
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/way-with-words/article5014933.ece
*Do you use paper/pen/pencil .... ?*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/back-to-school/laptops-in-class-lowers-students-grades-canadian-study/article13759430/
*Ambient Backscatter -- Wireless communication without batteries!*
http://abc.cs.washington.edu/
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
MEMS eCompass -- 3 axis accelerometer + 3 axis magnetometer
ST Hawks Smallest MEMS Compass
2 Aug 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. -- ST Microelectronics has introduced what it is calling
the world's smallest digital e-compass -- a three-axis magnetometer
combined with a three-axis accelerometer on a 2x2mm MEMS chip.
By saving board space on next-generation mobile devices, this device
should enable new ultra-miniature, location-aware applications.
Micro-electromechanical systems already provide much of the smarts to
smartphones, and ST is already a major supplier for devices from Apple's
iPhone to Samsung's Galaxy. However, a new generation of smartphones and
other personal devices will have even less board space.
Source:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319133
and
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/p3445
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2 Aug 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. -- ST Microelectronics has introduced what it is calling
the world's smallest digital e-compass -- a three-axis magnetometer
combined with a three-axis accelerometer on a 2x2mm MEMS chip.
By saving board space on next-generation mobile devices, this device
should enable new ultra-miniature, location-aware applications.
Micro-electromechanical systems already provide much of the smarts to
smartphones, and ST is already a major supplier for devices from Apple's
iPhone to Samsung's Galaxy. However, a new generation of smartphones and
other personal devices will have even less board space.
Source:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319133
and
http://www.st.com/web/en/press/p3445
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Magnetic monopoles ? Do they exist ?
One of the very first facts you learn about electromagnetism—long before
you walk into your first physics class—is that every magnet has two
poles. Cut a bar magnet in half and you wind up with two magnets, each
of which has its own north and south poles. And that's true for every
single object in our experience that boasts a magnetic field—whether
it's the entire Earth or an iron atom. There are no solitary poles.
Strangely, though, there is no fundamental reason why that has to be the
case. In fact, there are a few good reasons to suspect that there might
be single-poled magnetic objects—magnetic monopoles—floating about in
the universe. If these particles exist, they are probably quite rare,
but that hasn't stopped physicists from looking for them. Here's why: If
they exist, they could help answer long-standing questions about the
nature of the universe, shedding light on the way fundamental forces of
nature are tied together.
Read further ==>
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the-hunt-for-the-magnetic-monopole
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you walk into your first physics class—is that every magnet has two
poles. Cut a bar magnet in half and you wind up with two magnets, each
of which has its own north and south poles. And that's true for every
single object in our experience that boasts a magnetic field—whether
it's the entire Earth or an iron atom. There are no solitary poles.
Strangely, though, there is no fundamental reason why that has to be the
case. In fact, there are a few good reasons to suspect that there might
be single-poled magnetic objects—magnetic monopoles—floating about in
the universe. If these particles exist, they are probably quite rare,
but that hasn't stopped physicists from looking for them. Here's why: If
they exist, they could help answer long-standing questions about the
nature of the universe, shedding light on the way fundamental forces of
nature are tied together.
Read further ==>
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the-hunt-for-the-magnetic-monopole
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
On Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
"... Bohr, for his part, explained uncertainty by pointing out that answering certain questions necessitates not answering others."
"... And in the "many worlds" picture of the physicist Hugh Everett III, all the possibilities given odds by the oddsmaker come to fruition, but in parallel worlds. Here the abstract quantum state is regarded as physical, and interactions are connections that develop between different bits of this strange reality.
All of these interpretations have their pros and cons, but in none do observers play a fundamental role."
"... all the truly wild claims -- that observers are metaphysically important, that objectivity is impossible, that we posses a special kind of mental energy -- are the result of foggy interpretations made even less sharp by those wanting to validate their pet metaphysical claims with quantum physics."
More at:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/nothing-to-see-here-demoting-the-uncertainty-principle/?_r=0
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"... And in the "many worlds" picture of the physicist Hugh Everett III, all the possibilities given odds by the oddsmaker come to fruition, but in parallel worlds. Here the abstract quantum state is regarded as physical, and interactions are connections that develop between different bits of this strange reality.
All of these interpretations have their pros and cons, but in none do observers play a fundamental role."
"... all the truly wild claims -- that observers are metaphysically important, that objectivity is impossible, that we posses a special kind of mental energy -- are the result of foggy interpretations made even less sharp by those wanting to validate their pet metaphysical claims with quantum physics."
More at:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/nothing-to-see-here-demoting-the-uncertainty-principle/?_r=0
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