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  • Flight patterns over North America

    Flight patterns over North America

    It’s been years that I was looking again for images I found and used on September 11, 2001. They were showing flight patterns over the United States of America (the way commercial airline flights criss-cross the country). Here are the animations showing the enourmous density of planes in the US of A skies. Flight Patterns

  • China attempted to blind U.S. satellites with laser

    Yes! They are shooting very high-power laser flashes at the American satellites in the alleged intention to blind the spy satellites (temporarily or permanently). Nothing is really said as to whether they succeeded. Source: DefenseNews.

  • Getting rid of camera wobble: Not yet

    Every photographer (amateur, enthusiast or pro) knows that getting rid of blurred images is a major issue for all. Thanks to CNet, I recently learned that the camera wobble is now over! Scientists from the MIT and the University of Toronto worked on the issue and developped a very powerful (as far as it is…

  • The 1,000,000 Google pages meme

    A meme is a form of idea that propagates almost by itself as if it had its own life (possibly undergoing modifications and evolution). The basic principle has been first described by Richard Dawkins in his world-famous book “The selfish gene” where he draws a clear parallel between gene and meme. I had previously described…

  • A flower for a web site

    A flower for a web site

    Sometimes, technique will give bend towards art. I found a web site that computes a graphical representation of a web site structure. It’s beautiful enough to surprise you. You can click on the thumbnails to see the flowers in their full bloom. Roumazeilles.net Sirenomelia.org SpamAnti.net lexyk.com There’s everything here: Complexity, groupings, organisation, contents. But this…

  • Science in Science-Fiction

    Sci-Fi usually includes a lot of science. It has sometimes been said that it is mostly bad science, but it is science anyway. The serious scientists of the Sci-Fi Science web site give us a lot of details about what we will find or what we should notice in famous SciFi novels and movies. Examples:…

  • West African black rhinos declared extinct

    West African black rhinos declared extinct

    A scientific study recently suggested that these animals that were present in West Africa no longer exist in the wild and the species went extinct in this part of the world. Actually, the expected last animals failed to be found in Northern Cameroon. Consequently, the West African black rhino sub-species has been tentatively declared extinct.…

  • Free Science Fiction in MP3

    Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

  • They eat too much

    They eat too much

    American people eat a lot. Some eat too much. A few are proud to show you how much they can eat.