Archive for the 'Science' Category

Climate Researchers use VR. WOW!

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Virtual reality technology is being used by climate researchers to reveal what it is like in the eye of a typhoon.
The BBC’s Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin has been trying out the system at the science institute JAMSTEC in Yokohama.
Watch the video:

Fantastic! JAMSTEC is impressive for an agency dedicated to marine-earth science and tech. And VR [...]

That BIG thing

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

I’m now published at Inkling Magazine and that’s the big thing of mine.  Inkling Magazine’s motto is: On the HUNCH that science rocks.  You pretty much know what that article of mine is all about - at least globally.

Titled, A Rose by Any Other Name Would Look as Red, the article explains how the human [...]

The original computer game

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

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Each player will be given an island, forested or slightly so, but intentionally inhabited so as to give your actions in the game an element of real consequence.
Without intervention, your tropical paradise is predicted to go under exactly ten years from the start of play. And lest some bothersome Republican Apologist or a second-rate SF [...]

Internet in the 21st Century

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Today I swung by my alma mater to attend a lecture hosted by Vint Cerf, without whom we wouldn’t be surfing the Internet today, entitled “Internet in the 21st Century“. An illustrious figure indeed, and very well spoken as well, Vint is currently the Chief Internet Evangelist and vice president over at Google. A title [...]