Journal Journal: National Science Foundation Visualization Challenge
Hey! I am a finalist in the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge: Check it out and vote: Metabolomic Retina The full list of entries is here.
Hey! I am a finalist in the National Science Foundation's Visualization Challenge: Check it out and vote: Metabolomic Retina The full list of entries is here.
Every generation needs an intellectual hero... Ours was Steven P. Jobs
New JonesBlog update. STS-135 Landing photos and my visit to Kennedy Space Center
A Photographic Study of The Fly with anatomical details and discussion of potential applications in unmanned aerial vehicles here.
New JonesBlog update. Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy
There's a new site called Phygg.com that is a cross between the arxiv physics feed and Digg.com in that you can read papers up for prepublication and then vote them up or down. I think this poses an interesting new step in peer review and academic journals in that it gives the public a chance to participate in reading and voting on papers. From there, the journals can separate the wheat from the chaff. While it's not exactly innovative (digg + arxiv = phygg), it'll be interesting to see if people take to it and how good the general public will be at reading lengthy physics papers. MIT's Tech Review has a short blog on the launching.
New JonesBlog update. Louisville, Kentucky
We are starting out on a new collaboration on retinal research. Fun stuff.
Jonesblog has finally made the transition to modern underpinnings. It is now running on Wordpress... Huzzah.
New JonesBlog update. Experiments
I had checked out... The environment was so complete that for a discrete moment I had completely forgotten that we were still in the continental United States. Perhaps it was the smell of kebabs cooking or the sound of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan playing from the electronics shop that also sold pirated Western DVDs or the afternoon call to prayer coming from the tops of the minarets in the local mosque. It could have been the women selling bread, fruits or flowers by the side of the road or the Arabic men playing backgammon in the cafe with shisha pipes. Toyota trucks or bicycles being repaired in the roadside repair shops under Iraqi flags added to the realism along with a tangle of wires on poles carrying telephone and electricity around town with satellite dishes for television on rooftops were added elements. But the thing that completed it was the sound of Baghdadi Arabic from a gentleman greeting us as we drove through town.
Read all about it here. Medina Wasl with the 3rd Special Forces Group
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.