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Steve

Steve

Likes anything to do with technology, astronomy, photography, nature, music and movies
‪Goshawk Flies Through Tiny Spaces in Slo-Mo! - The Animal's Guide to Britain, Episode 3 - BBC Two‬‏ - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
‪Goshawk Flies Through Tiny Spaces in Slo-Mo! - The Animal's Guide to Britain, Episode 3 - BBC Two‬‏ - YouTube
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They should've put a window in there for a laugh ! - Leighton Gough
The tail used as a wing was pretty awesome - Upkar Gata-Aura
BBC Sport - 'Point of the Tournament' three times over - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1...
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Novak Djokovic have the Centre Court crowd on its feet with some stunning points in their Wimbeldon men's semi-final. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Only available to UK users im afraid..... - Steve
that was amazing, 3 of the best points I've seen in years - Toby Graham
shame one of them had to lose, Tsonga was absolutely immense against Federer - Lachlan
YouTube - The Accidental Sea (A Short Film) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - The Accidental Sea (A Short Film)
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GigaPan Time Machine Photography Tool Makes (Video) Time Travel Possible | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/technol...
GigaPan Time Machine Photography Tool Makes (Video) Time Travel Possible | Popular Science
"In 2009, we marveled at GigaPan, technology that sews together hundreds of photos to make a ultra-high-res image that you can zoom in and out of. Now GigaPan has introduced Time Machine -- which adds the miracle of time-lapse photography to create gigapixel-scale videos that you can play forwards and backwards in a range of speeds." - Steve from Bookmarklet
"Solving the Mysteries of the Cosmos": Have Evolutionary 'Intelligent' Machines Taken Over? - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
"Solving the Mysteries of the Cosmos": Have Evolutionary 'Intelligent' Machines Taken Over?
Michael Schmidt, a specialist in computational biology, developed an intelligent machine to "uncover the fundamental laws of nature". The machine is able to derive the laws of physics such as gravitation by processing the raw information. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Cornell researchers have taught a computer in a few years to find regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws -- without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer. They have tested their algorithm on simple mechanical systems and believe it could be applied to more complex systems ranging from biology to cosmology and be useful in analyzing the data generated by modern experiments that use electronic data collection. - Steve
Burning the midnight oil one evening, Michael Schmidt noticed an oddly familiar equation pop up on his monitor. His computer was crunching the data from an experiment to measure the chaotic motion of a double pendulum, a type that has one swinging arm hanging from another, he told New Scientist in an interview. "Schmidt recorded this movement using a motion tracking camera which fed... more... - Steve
Schmidt's evolutionary computer had found one of the immutable laws of nature: the law of conservation of energy, which says you can never add or take energy away from a system. What had taken scientists hundreds of years to discover took his computer just one day. - Steve
YouTube - Huffy Slider MT DANDENONG MADNESS !!!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Huffy Slider MT DANDENONG MADNESS !!!!
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Looks like great fun! - Steve from Bookmarklet
Taxonomists Launch A Grand Effort to Classify Every Species on Earth, With Your Help | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/science...
Taxonomists Launch A Grand Effort to Classify Every Species on Earth, With Your Help | Popular Science
"Taxonomists plan to catalogue all of the world’s species in the next 50 years. This NASA-style initiative, set at the Sustain What? Conference held in New York City this week, will require the identification and classification of approximately 10 million new species. To put that in perspective, only 2 million have been catalogued since binomial nomenclature was first invented in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus." - Steve from Bookmarklet
Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/technol...
Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights | Popular Science
"Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles. This causes the leaves to give off a red glow, lighting the road for passersby without the need for electric power." - Steve from Bookmarklet
In an added bonus, the luminescence will cause the leaves’ chloroplasts to photosynthesize, which will result in more carbon being captured from the air while the streets are lit. - Steve
Video: Beautiful 3-D Light Paintings, Extruded From an iPad | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/gadgets...
Video: Beautiful 3-D Light Paintings, Extruded From an iPad | Popular Science
"Dentsu London and Berg teamed up to create this stop-motion film, entitled "Making Future Magic." It's driven by a 3D light-painting technique, one I've never seen before: It's extruded from an iPad, like Play-Doh through a press." - Steve from Bookmarklet
YouTube - Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8 with 50 X Microscope - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8 with 50 X Microscope
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Using a Nokia N8 smartphone and a CellScope, the team behind the Wallace & Gromit series has made the world’s smallest stop-motion animation film. Follow 0.35-inch-tall Dot as she runs through an obstacle course made of British currency, rides a bumblebee and stitches her way out of trouble. The music is catchy too. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Thought it would be smaller, cellscope sounds cellular, but it really meant cellphone-scope. So meh - Upkar Gata-Aura
mrgripe.co.uk » How to build a Digital Photo Frame with old laptop - http://mrgripe.co.uk/technol...
mrgripe.co.uk » How to build a Digital Photo Frame with old laptop
The Pando -World's Oldest Organism: 80,000 or 800,000 Years Old? - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
The Pando -World's Oldest Organism: 80,000 or 800,000 Years Old?
"The Pando aspen clone in Utah is thought to be 80,000 years old, but some think it could be ten times older. It’s hard to guess age and long-term research would have had to begin when humans were starting to emigrate out of Africa. While Pando isn’t technically the oldest individual tree, this clonal colony of Quaking Aspen in Utah is truly ancient, and at 6,615 tons, it is also the heaviest known living organism on earth.. The 105-acre colony is made of genetically identical trees, called stems, connected by a single root system. Pando is located in the Fishlake National Forest, near Fish Lake on the Fish Lake Plateau located at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-central Utah." - Steve from Bookmarklet
"The “trembling giant” got its start at least 80,000 years ago, when all of our human ancestors were still exploring the Great Rift Valley. But some estimate the woodland could be as old as 1 million years, which would mean Pando predates the earliest Homo sapiens by 800,000 years. Some experts speculate that less well-studied Quaking Aspens in Utah may be 80 hectares in extent and one... more... - Steve
BBC News - 'Jarhead' bear gets out of a jam in Florida - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
BBC News - 'Jarhead' bear gets out of a jam in Florida
"A bear cub in Florida, which had a plastic jar stuck on its head for at least 10 days, has now been freed. The cub, affectionately nicknamed "Jarhead", got its head stuck in the container while rooting through rubbish around the town of Weirsdale. The cub was days away from death as he had not been able to eat or drink, biologists who rescued the bear said. They sedated the mother bear before grabbing the cub, pinning his ears back and prising off the container." - Steve from Bookmarklet
Video: Some Very Impressive Computer-Generated Falling Dirt and Flying Neckties | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/technol...
Video: Some Very Impressive Computer-Generated Falling Dirt and Flying Neckties | Popular Science
Lagoa Multiphysics, the software creation of Thiago Costa, allows for highly detailed, precisely tunable physics simulations of such phenomena as falling shovelfuls of moist earth, buckets of water being tossed at innocent bunnies, silk sheets crumpling and sliding, and unsavory-looking wobbly extrusions of an undefined plasticky substance that oozes and shivers. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Forty-ton whale lands on yacht during Cape Town sailing trip - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
Forty-ton whale lands on yacht during Cape Town sailing trip - Telegraph
A couple who took a yacht for a quiet sailing trip were stunned when a 40-ton whale crash-landed on their boat off Cape Town. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Ralph Mothes, 59, and Paloma Werner, 50, were helpless as the beast thrashed around on their 33ft vessel before slipping back into the water. Miss Werner said: "It really was quite incredible but very scary. The whale was about the same size as the boat. - Steve
We're gonna need a bigger boat - Leighton Gough
^ oh dear - Toby Graham
BBC News - 'Age lie' former Miss Cornwall takes Plymouth title - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
BBC News - 'Age lie' former Miss Cornwall takes Plymouth title
Laura Anness won Miss Cornwall 2010 after claiming to be from Saltash and aged 22 - the upper age limit is 24. She was actually 27 and from Devon. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Discrepancies about her age came to light when it was discovered she had put her age as 22 on entry forms to enter Miss Cornwall in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. - Steve
Not even that attractive. - Steve
APOD: 2010 June 29 - Trees, Sky, Galactic Eye - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod...
APOD: 2010 June 29 - Trees, Sky, Galactic Eye
"Earlier this month, over Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a playful photographer with an eye for the sky took eight images and composed the above intriguing picture. The full fisheye frame shows everything above the horizon, including a lamp-illuminated landscape around the edges, and the zenith of the sky directly overhead." - Steve from Bookmarklet
British Amputee Cat First to Get Bone-Grafted Exoprosthetic Paws | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/technol...
British Amputee Cat First to Get Bone-Grafted Exoprosthetic Paws | Popular Science
When Oscar the cat lost both his hind paws in a farming accident, it was feared he'd have to trundle around in one of those wheeled-cat apparatuses. But Noel Fitzpatrick, a neuro-orthopedic veterinary surgeon in Surrey, pioneered a groundbreaking technique instead, installing weight-bearing bone implants to create a bionic kitty. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Maiden voyage for first true space sail - space - 12 May 2010 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Maiden voyage for first true space sail - space - 12 May 2010 - New Scientist
ICARUS'S wings melted when he flew too close to the sun. Here's hoping a similar fate doesn't befall his namesake, the solar sail due to be unfurled by Japan's aerospace exploration agency (JAXA) next week. If all goes to plan, it will be the first spacecraft fully propelled by sunlight. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Image of the Day: Lightning Streaks Across the Sky as Lava Flows from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul Volcano - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
Image of the Day: Lightning Streaks Across the Sky as Lava Flows from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul Volcano
Martian avalanche crashes the party | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastr...
Martian avalanche crashes the party | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
On the left you can see the surface of Mars: that’s frozen carbon dioxide — dry ice — covering the ground. The red brick-like pattern to the right of the ice is actually the face of a scarp, a steep cliff. We’re looking almost straight down on it, so it’s foreshortened, but don’t let that fool you; it’s 700 meters (2000 feet) high! On the right is the greyish floor, dusty basaltic rock. You can see sand dunes rippling across it, as well as a few boulders here and there. - Steve from Bookmarklet
But right there is the plume of a large avalanche, the cloud still rising above the floor! Clearly this was caught within seconds of the landslide hitting the floor of the scarp. The shadow of the plume is clear and obvious below and to the left. That’s particularly cool because knowing the Sun angle in the image means the plume height can be determined. They generally rise to 50 or more meters. - Steve
Thanks L8!! - Steve
Zoologger: The mud creature that lives without oxygen - life - 07 April 2010 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Zoologger: The mud creature that lives without oxygen - life - 07 April 2010 - New Scientist
This tiny creature may not look spectacular, but it is one of the most remarkable ever discovered: the first that can survive and reproduce entirely without oxygen. - Steve from Bookmarklet
As well as proving that animals that don't have to breathe oxygen have already evolved on Earth, it bolsters claims that complex animals can evolve on other planets even if there's no oxygen. Some have speculated, for example, that sulphur-rich areas of Mars might support life. - Steve
World's Most Expensive Car Is Lego's Most Amazing Car Too - Bugatti Veyron - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5511642...
World's Most Expensive Car Is Lego's Most Amazing Car Too - Bugatti Veyron - Gizmodo
At first sight, this Lego version of the world's most expensive street car—the Bugatti Veyron—looks like just a nice reproduction. And then you see the video, and realize it's actually an RC car with a 7+R sequential gearbox. - Steve from Bookmarklet
YouTube - Nature by Numbers - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Nature by Numbers
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A movie inspired by numbers, geometry and nature. - Steve from Bookmarklet
That was pretty good never thought about Fibonacci visually before. - Leighton Gough
Regardless of the mathematical aspects i just thought it was a well put together production. - Steve
Final Fantasy I and II now available on iphone - http://www.fonehome.co.uk/2010...
Final Fantasy I and II now available on iphone
Square Enix has released re-vamped editions of the classic roleplaying games Final Fantasy I and II for iPhone. They’ll set you back £5.49 a pop. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Anyone played yet? I am going to soon, but havent had time yet. - willdarling
I have bought FF1, plays pretty well. I never played the original NES versions so i cant say how it differs. Im a few hours in and im enjoying it. The only gripe i have is the movement controls feel a bit clunky, but in battles its smooth sailing. - Steve
Fwd: The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date - Nasa - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5478787... (via http://friendfeed.com/e...)
Fwd: The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date - Nasa - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5478787/the-most-accurate-highest-resolution-earth-view-to-date# (via http://ff.im/gubQT)
Fwd: The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date - Nasa - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5478787/the-most-accurate-highest-resolution-earth-view-to-date# (via http://ff.im/gubQT)
APOD: 2010 February 10 - Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod...
APOD: 2010 February 10 - Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning
Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured above, the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting early last month. Magma bubbles so hot they glow shoot away as liquid rock bursts through the Earth's surface from below. The above image is particularly notable, however, for the lightning bolts caught near the volcano's summit. Why lightning occurs even in common thunderstorms remains a topic of research, and the cause of volcanic lightning is even less clear. - Steve from Bookmarklet
"Smart Dust" -From SciFi to Reality: The Coming Era of Sensor Computing - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
"Smart Dust" -From SciFi to Reality: The Coming Era of Sensor Computing
"Hewlett-Packard has embarked on a ten-year mission, a “Central Nervous System for the Earth,” to embed up to a trillion pushpin-size sensors around the globe. H.P. researchers, combining electronics and nanotechnology expertise, announced in November that they had developed sensors with accelerometers that were up to 1,000 times more sensitive than the commercial motion detectors used in Nintendo Wii video game controllers and some smartphones." HP's goal to connect the physical world to computing as never before," using so-called "smart dust" sensors to enable "buildings that manage their own energy use, bridges that sense motion and metal fatigue, cars that track traffic patterns and report potholes, and fruit and vegetable shipments that tell grocers when they ripen and begin to spoil."" - Steve from Bookmarklet
'Space diver' to attempt first supersonic freefall - space - 22 January 2010 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
'Space diver' to attempt first supersonic freefall - space - 22 January 2010 - New Scientist
A "space diver" will try to smash the nearly 50-year-old record for the highest jump this year, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall. The stunt could help engineers design escape systems for space flights. On 16 August 1960, US Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger made history by jumping out of a balloon at an altitude of some 31,333 metres. "I stood up and said a prayer and stepped off," he recalled (see Space diving: The ultimate extreme sport). Since then, many have tried to break that record but none have succeeded – New Jersey native Nick Piantanida actually died trying in 1965. Now Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has announced he will make the attempt, with help from Kittinger and sponsorship from the energy drink company Red Bull. - Steve from Bookmarklet
Rare Volcanic Lightning Sighted - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
Rare Volcanic Lightning Sighted
In the late morning of 12 July 2008, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) received an unexpected call from the U.S. Coast Guard, reporting an explosive volcanic eruption in the central Aleutians in the vicinity of Okmok volcano, a relatively young 2000-year-old caldera. The Coast Guard had received an emergency call requesting assistance from a family living at a cattle ranch on the flanks of the volcano, who reported loud “thunder,” lightning, and noontime darkness due to ashfall. - Steve from Bookmarklet
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