"The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe" (you'll need a bachelor's degree in physics or equivalent to make heads or tails out of this one).
The promise of the current generation of IoT gadgets...only useful during a pretty short transition period between self-care and a locked memory care assisted living campus.
This.
A larger market may be in devices for nondemented with chronic diseases. For instance, someone who has to take medication several times a day. I depend on reminders sent through my Apple Watch for this.
This. Oregon DOT did a study a few years ago and concluded that in western Oregon (where essentially all the population is), 70 [seventy] road bridges will go down.
For household prep, top priority is water, which may be the hardest thing. At least one 5 gallon jug per person. We have 10 gallons per person, which is pathetically inadequate. Food for 2 weeks. Camp stove with fuel. Flashlights, radios, batteries. Firewood. Extra prescription meds. Gasoline (I keep a 5 gallon jug and I never let my car get below 1/4 tank).
I haven't read the article yet (awaiting my magazine to arrive) but the scariest part is that if a strong earthquake hits the CSZ off Oregon in the spring/summer when the reservoirs are full, the Hills Creek Dam (an earthen dam) could fail. This could then cause Dexter Dam below it fail. Then most of the cities of Springfield and Eugene (about 200,000 people) would be scraped off the face of the Earth.
A decade or so ago in England a combat robot got out of its cage, found its way out of the facility, and was caught heading down the street. (I have a news link somewhere.)
Here's a tabletop particle accelerator in Scientific American's Amateur Scientist column in 1959:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/...
And in the Sept 1953 issue, an account of some high school students in El Cerrito who built a cyclotron.
Yes, that's Brooks.
But you and your boss definitely should read Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-Edition/dp/0321934113).
The French built the "Maginot Line" of fortifications along their border with Germany--at enormous expense--between World War I and World War II. The Germans simply went around it through Belgium and defeated France in a few days. The TSA is our Maginot Line.
A recent study found that 1/12 or 1/8 (can't remember which, so call it 1/10) of electronic prescriptions had an error. Types of errors include: wrong medication, wrong dose, wrong instructions, wrong quantity. I do dozens of electronic orders a day and get several kicked back to me from the pharmacist.
American Scientist is a beefier Scientific American. It has review articles on recent findings written for a scientifically educated audience, as opposed to SciAm, which is written for sixth graders and businessmen. It's what SciAm used to be a few decades ago. Published six times a year.
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In college in the early 1980s I did some work at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. I spent several days wiring up the logic circuits (CAMAC modules) for our detectors. Our data cables were labeled with their lengths in nanoseconds. A 1 nanosecond cable would be about a foot long.
Much of my income is based on performance, Anonymous Coward, so get off your high horse. What I mainly resent is specialists with an equal amount of training making 5 times the money I make.
I'm a primary care physician in the US. There are a number of logistical issues in the decision whether to prescribe antibiotics. They revolve around the ease of followup. It would be nice to always be able to say "You'll probably be fine. If you get sicker, come back."
But if it's a Thursday or Friday, or if the patient lives an hour's drive from the clinic, or if I'm about to go on vacation, or if my schedule is overbooked for the next few days, I'm much more likely to prescribe an antibiotic.
We need better access to care. Among the things that would help that would be (1) single payer insurance, so people could get care anywhere, and (2) better compensation for primary care providers (PCPs) which would result in (a) more of them, relative to specialists and (b) less need for existing PCP to overbook their schedules to make ends meet.
I'm not impressed with the supposed uniqueness of this event. We've had the ability to detect GRBs for only about 10 years and initially that ability was pretty crude. To make a big deal of this being the biggest one "ever" is quite presumptuous.
Reminds me of when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. Levy said (during the live TV coverage) that it was a once-in-a-hundred-million-year (I forget the exact number, but it was big) event. What a remarkable coincidence that it happened just a handful of years after we developed the ability to detect it.
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb has been around for a long time. It covers the nuclear physics of the atomic bomb. Anyone with a bachelor's degree in physics can understand it completely (anyone else: unlikely). The nuclear part is the easy part. The hard parts of making an atomic bomb are (1) separating isotopes to make fissable material and (2) constructing the chemical explosives to generate enough compression to insure a good nuclear reaction. The item on Wikileaks is a rough sketch in the direction of #2.
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"The Windup Girl"
This.
A larger market may be in devices for nondemented with chronic diseases. For instance, someone who has to take medication several times a day. I depend on reminders sent through my Apple Watch for this.
[Previously]
Am I really the first here to link to this classic from the Journal of Irreproducible Results? http://www.improbable.com/airc...
For household prep, top priority is water, which may be the hardest thing. At least one 5 gallon jug per person. We have 10 gallons per person, which is pathetically inadequate. Food for 2 weeks. Camp stove with fuel. Flashlights, radios, batteries. Firewood. Extra prescription meds. Gasoline (I keep a 5 gallon jug and I never let my car get below 1/4 tank).
I haven't read the article yet (awaiting my magazine to arrive) but the scariest part is that if a strong earthquake hits the CSZ off Oregon in the spring/summer when the reservoirs are full, the Hills Creek Dam (an earthen dam) could fail. This could then cause Dexter Dam below it fail. Then most of the cities of Springfield and Eugene (about 200,000 people) would be scraped off the face of the Earth.
A decade or so ago in England a combat robot got out of its cage, found its way out of the facility, and was caught heading down the street. (I have a news link somewhere.)
Here's a tabletop particle accelerator in Scientific American's Amateur Scientist column in 1959: http://www.sciencemadness.org/... And in the Sept 1953 issue, an account of some high school students in El Cerrito who built a cyclotron.
Yes, that's Brooks. But you and your boss definitely should read Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-Edition/dp/0321934113).
The French built the "Maginot Line" of fortifications along their border with Germany--at enormous expense--between World War I and World War II. The Germans simply went around it through Belgium and defeated France in a few days. The TSA is our Maginot Line.
A recent study found that 1/12 or 1/8 (can't remember which, so call it 1/10) of electronic prescriptions had an error. Types of errors include: wrong medication, wrong dose, wrong instructions, wrong quantity. I do dozens of electronic orders a day and get several kicked back to me from the pharmacist.
The APRS tracker used was one from Big Red Bee.
I bought an iPad 1 about 9 months ago primarily for reading science PDFs. It's fabulous for this.
American Scientist is a beefier Scientific American. It has review articles on recent findings written for a scientifically educated audience, as opposed to SciAm, which is written for sixth graders and businessmen. It's what SciAm used to be a few decades ago. Published six times a year.
In college in the early 1980s I did some work at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. I spent several days wiring up the logic circuits (CAMAC modules) for our detectors. Our data cables were labeled with their lengths in nanoseconds. A 1 nanosecond cable would be about a foot long.
Much of my income is based on performance, Anonymous Coward, so get off your high horse. What I mainly resent is specialists with an equal amount of training making 5 times the money I make.
I'm a primary care physician in the US. There are a number of logistical issues in the decision whether to prescribe antibiotics. They revolve around the ease of followup. It would be nice to always be able to say "You'll probably be fine. If you get sicker, come back." But if it's a Thursday or Friday, or if the patient lives an hour's drive from the clinic, or if I'm about to go on vacation, or if my schedule is overbooked for the next few days, I'm much more likely to prescribe an antibiotic. We need better access to care. Among the things that would help that would be (1) single payer insurance, so people could get care anywhere, and (2) better compensation for primary care providers (PCPs) which would result in (a) more of them, relative to specialists and (b) less need for existing PCP to overbook their schedules to make ends meet.
Why is it that news stories about movie revenues never take inflation into account?
My brother Karl Jansky and His Discovery (1929) of Radio Waves from Beyond the Earth
The V.A.--at least the healthcare part of it-- banned these months ago to prevent data from wandering away..
Grmek's History of AIDS from 1993 is quite good and interesting.
Of the 27 books that I've read in 2007-2008, 4 are available on Kindle (this stat as of March 2008). Your mileage may vary.
http://radio-astronomy.org/
http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/ras.html
or even SETI:
http://www.setileague.org/
I'm not impressed with the supposed uniqueness of this event. We've had the ability to detect GRBs for only about 10 years and initially that ability was pretty crude. To make a big deal of this being the biggest one "ever" is quite presumptuous.
Reminds me of when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. Levy said (during the live TV coverage) that it was a once-in-a-hundred-million-year (I forget the exact number, but it was big) event. What a remarkable coincidence that it happened just a handful of years after we developed the ability to detect it.
(Please enjoy My Brother Karl Jansky and His Discovery of Radio Waves from Beyond the Earth).
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb has been around for a long time. It covers the nuclear physics of the atomic bomb. Anyone with a bachelor's degree in physics can understand it completely (anyone else: unlikely). The nuclear part is the easy part. The hard parts of making an atomic bomb are (1) separating isotopes to make fissable material and (2) constructing the chemical explosives to generate enough compression to insure a good nuclear reaction. The item on Wikileaks is a rough sketch in the direction of #2.