Category: Sciences
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AquaGallery
The AquaGallery is a little graphic experiment about aquatic forms and how to draw them in video. Enjoy!
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Historical anatomies – Anatomy in history
Sometimes, the Internet is not at all about new technologies but a way to reach old ones and old science. This is what happens when you visit Historical anatomies on the web, a quietly presented web site showing us reproductions of anatomical atlases from the US National Library of Medicine’s collection. This is all about…
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Happy Birthday HAL-9000!
Yes! The computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick) was offically born (first powered) on 12th January 1992. So, it is exactly 15-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000! There, HAL-9000 is an Artificial Intelligence computer (the AI word was common then) that takes its…
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Age calculator
A new service offered freely to you by Roumazeilles.net: How long did you live? It probably will not change your life deeply, but it may be useful to know exactly how many seconds did you live already, ain’t it?
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Economic indicators
While trying to prepare a set of economic indicators for my more official job (I’m not earning enough money from this web site to stop working and just type posts for this site), I have been pushed into looking at what indicators are available to describe the economic outlook in Europe in order to evaluate…
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ENIAC is 60!
The computer that really started the revolution of our societies, ENIAC, officially turned 60 in 2006. Before closing the door on this year, I wanted to celebrate this birthdate with its museum. All that without forgetting that those of us who are more than 40-year old saw the birth of pocket electronic calculators. With ENIAC,…
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Slow motion hi-speed movie compilation
Certainly not very original (hi-speed cameras have been able to film very fast phenomenons for years), but they are still very impressive images: http://www.youtube.com/v/MX6aerxQPOs
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
This is the title of one of the worst movies ever filmed, according to the Internet Movie Database. But anyway, I have the pleasure to wish you a merry Christmas.
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Franck Brudieux black and white reptiles
Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of…