Infographic: Communicating Climate Change… Language Matters!
(Source: The American Geophysical Union via Grist)
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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents…. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning."
— Max Planck
Aidan Dwyer, inspired by trees, arranges solar panels like leaves on an Oak tree to reap more power even in low light conditions. Read More…
What I liked in him is the scientific vigor with which he approached his problem.
(Source: techpost)
Larry Lessig - On copyright and how it has affected open access to scientific information.
According to BBC News - India’s Environment & Forests ministry has given a go-ahead to build an underground Neutrino Observatory near Bodi West hills in TamilNadu. The facility will be a fifth of it’s kind in the world and would cost about $270m.
I wonder what the environmental impact of this project is, given that it is being built in the Western Ghats region.
Getting closer to nature…
Its not about green-living or protecting the environment (though it could be related). Its about scientific research learning from nature and finding solutions imitating it. Reflecting this are the two articles published recently, one about Self powered parts becoming electronic mainstay and another about Self assembling photovoltaic cells.
(Source: techpost)
Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance
By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command. The cyborg insects were created at the University of California, Berkeley, by engineers led by Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz as part of a programme funded by the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)….
"From river deep to mountain high - @NASA releases the most complete topographic map of Earth ever http://sn.im/l8lmx and it’s free!"
