At last, something worth the money spent:
Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
By Asma Alsharif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world's largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is due [...]
I know it is cold out there. In fact, this is one of the coldest years over here in Bahrain.
Anyway, here is a new idea to get you warm. This invention won the prize for “Best Dumbass Idea of the Year.†It is called “Date Palm Fireplaceâ€:
Click image to enlarge!
As you [...]
I am in a terrible "time-waste" mood these days, so have fun!
This is how illiterate miscalculate it:
and this is how the literate's calculate it (more accurate to the target):
Also tagged donkey, Too Much Free TimeTunisian Treasure Prison Map
The first project is the brave, superb Tunisian Prison Map by Sami Ben Gharbia.
Sami made a Tunisian Prison Map, which is madeup using a Google Maps API + GMapEZ + video YouTube + flash animations + the Yahoo Y !Q Beta. [Hat tip: Rachel]
Link to the map: http://www.kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap
Link to the related article [...]
As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis�s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples�water [...]
Also tagged Alien, India, Rain, Red, Say That Again, Space, WaterBacteria Eat Human Sewage, Produce Rocket Fuel.
We have a lot of fule, but where is the Rocket?
Please sign the statement at:
http://www.sd-il.com/politics/campaigns/signStatement.php?cid=2
A large number of signatures can be influential
Enclosed is also a sample protest letter by the Israeli peace and anti nuclear activist Gideon Spiro.
The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics
To The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
We, the undersigned, protest your decision to award the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic to Professors Robert [...]
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) could gain from a growing solar power industry if they provide financial and political frameworks to lure investment. The report says that in 20 years, solar power could provide the same amount of electricity as 72 coal-fired power stations. This is enough to supply 100 million people, or [...]
Also tagged Good News, MENA, Middle East, Regional, Solar, TechnologyAn American and an Israeli won the 2005 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for their work on "game theory," which can help explain and resolve trade and business conflicts, and even play a role in avoiding war… Interesting. It would be nice to know if somebody already applied this theory somewhere.
Update: These two turned [...]
A silent tectonic event, so powerful it has shifted southern Vancouver Island out to sea, but so subtle nobody has felt a thing, is slowly unfolding on the West Coast. Scientists who are tracking the event with sensitive seismographs and earth orbiting satellites warn it could be a trigger for a massive earthquake — some [...]
Also taggedA hospital doctor in the poor rural area in Vietnam has used his PC and some cheap parts to create a homemade endoscope.
Endoscope is a minimally invasive diagnostic procedure used to evaluate the interior surfaces of an organ by inserting a small scope in the body. Through the scope, doctors are able to see lesions.
The [...]
In the wake of this month's military coup, Mauritania has established its first ministry for education and scientific research. Can you believe that?
Also tagged Coup, Good News, Mauritania, ScienceResearchers have finally found evidence that erotic images make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts just a moment, but the research has added to road-safety campaigners� calls to ban sexy billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of preventing accidents.
Also tagged Say That Again, SexyThink high-priced commercial software is your only option? Don't be so sure. Free alternatives are available in a wide range of enterprise software categories, including some that may surprise you.
Also tagged OSSiberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting.
Also tagged Bleeding Edge, Science
