Category: Sciences
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Hard disc reliability
In the midst of the posts I made about the reliability of optical media, I want to stop a minute to look at the reliability of magnetic hard disc drives. The recent publication of two interesting studies on this subject create a kind of immediate actuality that is useful to comment upon. The first publication…
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Lunar eclipse, visible in Europe
If you are in Europe, you are lucky. A full Lunar eclipse is happening on 3rd March 2007 (it’s not that uncommon because the Earth planet is big and near the Moon, so it hides the Sun quite often). The peak of the eclipse will be at: Paris: 4th March, 00:20 London: 3rd March, 23:20…
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The complete work of Charles Darwin online
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever assembled. This is the promise from the University of Cambridge. With the help of the Charles Darwin trust, they are assembling more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts from the father of the theory of Evolution. Unfortunately, all is not…
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Designing a 3.2 giga-pixel camera for astronomy
Today, this is not a record image that we show, but the publication of a scientific paper about the design of an camera for astronomy to be installed in a giant telescope (8.4m), probably in Chile. The 3.2 giga-pixel LSST camera will produce approximately half a petabyte of archive images every month. These data need…
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Earth in Flash, but seen from space
You are willing to observe our planet Earth as seen from space in an interactive form? There is no better place than Flash Earth, a Flash software application allowing you easy navigation through the images from Google, Yahoo Maps, NASA, etc. This is a sort of cute synthesis for all these services in a very…
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Map of Arab oil
It may be only an oddity, but didn’t you already wondered where exactly lied the oil of Arab countries? Maybe not, but here is anyway the map of oil and gas around the Persian Gulf.
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A few nice bees
Flying bees shot in macrophoto on BeeDreams.com.