Comment Wrong Solution (Score 1) 119
Instead of helping users close their eyes and ears, Twitter needs to help users kick people out of their cocktail parties.
Comment 2 565 2795 (Score 1) 663
To stay under a 2 degree celsius global warming increase, we can pour about 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies are already planning on releasing 2795 gigatons from their proven reserves.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
Comment 20-year's worth of underestimation (Score 0) 306
Hopefully the new models are not just continuing a 20-year trend of underestimating the impacts of global warming. Like melting arctic ice.
Comment International Business Times... (Score 1) 108
...is where I go to get the latest space news.
Just kidding. I go to the Bad Astronomer, who posted a color 360 panorama two days ago: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/09/first-color-360-degree-panorama-from-curiosity/
C'mon Slashot, you can do better than this.
Comment Re:Socialism (Score 1) 97
Here's the event link to Fraser's hangout: http://goo.gl/a5t4O
Submission + - Mystery company may be an asteroid mining project (theverge.com)
MMatessa writes: From The Verge: MIT's Technology Review has just gotten news of a mysterious new project that claims it will "create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources.'" Space exploration company Planetary Resources will be unveiled in a conference call on Tuesday, April 24th. Besides the audacious announcement, which promises to "overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP," what makes this unique is its high-profile support group. The venture is backed by Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, director James Cameron, and politician Ross Perot's son, among others.
Comment In other news... (Score 4, Informative) 1181
'James Hensen has been making predictions about climate change since the 1980s. When people are comparing what is happening now to those predictions, they can see they fail to match up.'
In other news, Hansen's 30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on
Submission + - Liquid metal batteries may be the solution to renewable energy (youtube.com)
MMatessa writes: What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage — so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not blowing. In this talk, Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. As he says: "We need to think about the problem differently. We need to think big. We need to think cheap."
Comment Re:ManyEyes by IBM (Score 0) 26
Article types
Data & View Specification: Visualize data by choosing visual encodings. Filter out data to focus on relevant Items. Sort Items to expose patterns. Derive values or models from source data.
View Manipulation: Select items to highlight, filter, or manipulate them. Navigate to examine high-level patterns and low-level detail. Coordinate views for linked, multi-dimensional exploration. Organize multiple windows and workspaces.
Process & Provenance: Record analysis histories for revisitation,, review and sharing. Annotate patterns to document findings. Share views and annotations to enable collaboration. Guide users through analysis tasks or stories.
Many Eyes types
See relationships among data points: Scatterplot. Matrix Chart. Network Diagram.
Compare a set of values: Bar Chart. Block Histogram. Bubble Chart. Track rises and falls over time: Line Graph. Stack Graph. Stack Graph for Categories.
See the parts of a whole: Pie Chart. Treemap. Treemap for Comparisons.
Analyze a text: Word Tree. Tag Cloud. Phrase Net. Word Cloud Generator.
See the world: Ottawa Neighbourhood Map. US County Map. World Map. Massachusetts Map. New Jersey Map.
Data & View Specification: Visualize data by choosing visual encodings. Filter out data to focus on relevant Items. Sort Items to expose patterns. Derive values or models from source data.
View Manipulation: Select items to highlight, filter, or manipulate them. Navigate to examine high-level patterns and low-level detail. Coordinate views for linked, multi-dimensional exploration. Organize multiple windows and workspaces.
Process & Provenance: Record analysis histories for revisitation,, review and sharing. Annotate patterns to document findings. Share views and annotations to enable collaboration. Guide users through analysis tasks or stories.
Many Eyes types
See relationships among data points: Scatterplot. Matrix Chart. Network Diagram.
Compare a set of values: Bar Chart. Block Histogram. Bubble Chart. Track rises and falls over time: Line Graph. Stack Graph. Stack Graph for Categories.
See the parts of a whole: Pie Chart. Treemap. Treemap for Comparisons.
Analyze a text: Word Tree. Tag Cloud. Phrase Net. Word Cloud Generator.
See the world: Ottawa Neighbourhood Map. US County Map. World Map. Massachusetts Map. New Jersey Map.
Comment Re:ManyEyes by IBM (Score 0) 26
Article types:
Many Eyes types:
See relationships among data points
Scatterplot
Matrix Chart
Network Diagram
Compare a set of values
Bar Chart
Block Histogram
Bubble Chart
Track rises and falls over time
Line Graph
Stack Graph
Stack Graph for Categories
See the parts of a whole
Pie Chart
Treemap
Treemap for Comparisons
Analyze a text
Word Tree
Tag Cloud
Phrase Net
Word Cloud Generator
See the world
Ottawa Neighbourhood Map
US County Map
World Map
Massachusetts Map
New Jersey Map
Comment Re:Define golden age (Score 1) 358
The logical pattern is easier to see in this search table.
The most frequent English letters are higher in the table.
Comment Re:How do I view the Wall Street Protests? (Score 1) 1799
Comment Original Paper (Score 1) 79
The summary links to a reply of a critique of a 2009 paper. The original paper (with brain imaging goodness) can be found here.
Comment Pittsburgh! (Score -1, Offtopic) 285
Pittsburgh is one of the few American cities to be spelled with an h at the end of a burg suffix. While briefly named "Pittsburg" from 1890 to 1911 following a declaration by the United States Board on Geographic Names, the "Pittsburgh" spelling was officially restored after a public campaign by the citizens of the city.
Comment Re:Change the movie experience! (Score 1) 339
It is being done.
180: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#IMAX_Dome_.2F_OMNIMAX
motion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_D-BOX_motion-enhanced_cinemas
180, motion, scent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soarin'_Over_California
180: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#IMAX_Dome_.2F_OMNIMAX
motion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_D-BOX_motion-enhanced_cinemas
180, motion, scent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soarin'_Over_California
