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Everest: Death from high-altitude hypoxia

These last days, there was a lot of talk about traffic ajms obsevred on the road to Mount Everest summit.…

Designed to help in a computer science and algorithms teaching course, these are great ideas of algorithm descriptions using only…

A few years ago I had written about Guillermo Luijk’s technique to remove completely noise from digital photos. We know…

I don’t know why but this video clip attracts me strangely. Even if I don’t understand all the advanced notions…

30 years ago, on May 28, 1983, in the middle of a tennis match between John McEnroe and Drew Gitlin,…

I am unsure which one is the best approach to teenager sex education… YouTube link YouTube link from Miss Lovecraft

The shock of gelatin falling onto a hard surface. Filmed in slow motion. YouTube link

The other day, I was talking with Frank about exceptional software programmers able to influence notably a whole company by…

Just at the surface of a 3D fractal volume, happen very astonishing things. Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.

You know that you’re a computer dinosaur when you discover that a computer program you started with is reaching its…

This is an exceptionally precise and understandable presentation of the knowledge amassed about the Fukushima dramatic events since 11th March…

I discovered (thanks to BoingBoing) a superb Russian blog which shows copies of scientific documents dating back to the era…

For those of you who asked for more details about the reliability of lead-free soldering (see the end of my…

I like to see it summarized in a wider scope on the following graph: What do you not see? Via:…

If you think that this Winter’s cold wave is really tough, you’d better think again. People living in parts of…

How did carbon dioxide evolve in Earth atmosphere in the nearly 1 million years in the past? YouTube link

This is an extremely weird octopus which -like many other octopuses- is able to change its skin color. It does…

A carbon nanotube array is actually extremely hydrophobic (pushes water away). This makes bouncing water onto it quite interesting. For…

We’re still wondering what this ISS space station is for. We can see it from the ground at night. But,…

The creator of the fractal concept, Benoît Mandelbrot, just died. Born in Poland, the great mathematician had both French and…