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Cleanergy
March 15, 2010No Comments
The Stirling engine was invented by Dr. Robert Stirling in 1816. The political clout of the oil industry have held this competition aside until today. Cleanergy is the only company in the world producing energy with Stirling technology, at present at 150 plants and has tested its 9 kW engine for more than 2 000 [...]
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…
March 15, 2010No Comments
Tired of scooping snow.
Some tips:
Shovel early and often.
Push the snow instead of lifting it.
If you must lift the snow, lift it properly.
Pace yourself.
Quote
March 7, 2010No Comments
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
Sir Francis Bacon
‘Doğramacı zihniyet’
March 7, 2010No Comments
İhsan Doğramacı – Korkut Boratav (sol.org.tr)
28 Şubat 2010
Bağlantı
[...] Demirağ ve Doğramacı önce benim için, “çok zayıf düşmüş; güçlenmesi için iyi besleyin; et yedirin” tavsiyesinde bulunmuşlar. İyileşmediğim için, bizimkiler Eckstein’i getirebilmişler. O paratifo teşhisini koymuş; “yumuşak, sulu şeyler dışında bir şey yedirmeyin, aksi halde bağırsakları delinir ve kaybedersiniz” tavsiyesiyle hayatımı kurtarmış.
[...] Türkiye hukuk tarihinin bir [...]
Find them early
March 2, 2010No Comments
Editorial
Nature Methods 7, 163 (2010)
doi:10.1038/nmeth0310-163
Getting young researchers into independent positions that encourage risk-taking would benefit science but requires more than targeted individual research grants.
The public perception is that important scientific advances are made by scientists with at least a few gray hairs, but the reality is that most scientists perform their groundbreaking work early in [...]
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Planet-hacking
February 26, 2010No Comments
What on earth are they talking about!?! Is it possible to tackle these issues simply by spraying the sky?
News of the Week
Meeting Briefs:
The Latest on Geoengineering | http://www.sciencemag.org/
Eli Kintisch
[...] That said, simulating either geoengineering approach to counteract global warming—distributing particles globally or focusing on the poles—suggests a cooler world with less disruption of rain patterns [...]
Bill Withers – Live at Carnegie Hall
February 23, 2010No Comments
Soft, Reflective, Smooth, Elegant, Yearning, Wistful, Romantic, Sentimental, Gentle, Poignant, Autumnal, Sensual, Laid-Back/ Mellow, Intimate, Stylish, Soothing, Melancholy
Bill Withers
February 23, 2010No Comments
My friends feel it’s their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff
Is I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use [...]
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