Category: Sciences

  • 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…

  • Why did the chicken cross the road? Prequel

    Those of you who read my little History (or historiogrpahic) exercise about the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke may remember that did not succeed moving back in time very far because of the limitations of Internet search engines. So, I was concluding that the story was older than 1981. After that,…

  • Lunar eclipse, visible in Europe

    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…

  • Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?

    “Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly. It might take a while to change the conversation habits that’s been ingrained throughout your life, but it is very possible.” The rest of the article is on The Positivity Blog.

  • The complete work of Charles Darwin online

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • A few nice bees

    Flying bees shot in macrophoto on BeeDreams.com.