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interesting sites about new breakthroughs or discoveries

Dec
16
2008

World Community Grid

As an update to my previous Cloud Computing post, I came across an interesting grid/distributed computing project, the World Community Grid. The WCG’s aim is to create the world’s largest public computational grid, with the goal of seeking projects that benefit humanity. IBM is the primary corporate sponsor, and, according to the site, [...]

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Dec
07
2008

When the Cloud transforms into Universal Utility Computing

The Cloud is Born
One of the most popular themes in the last couple years on the web is the much-heralded “cloud computing”. Of course, the cloud metaphor is taken from the representation of the Internet in architecture diagrams as a big fluffy cloud to which other, more discrete networks and systems are interconnected. [...]

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Oct
25
2005

archimedes death ray brought to reality

apparently a group of students at MIT have constructed a device that mimics the terrible death ray devised by the mathematical genius archimedes of ancient greece. it’s a legendary story (some believe is apocryphal) where roman ships at sea were set ablaze by a complex system of mirrors that focus and reflect sunlight into [...]

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Oct
10
2005

python – 0, gator – 0

i ran across this bizarre video (oh, and since it’s MSN you obviously have to use IE to view it) on friday. apparently down in the florida everglades they’re having problems with pet pythons getting loose and preying on the native wildlife.. like the alligators. not just the *baby* alligators, but the fully-grown [...]

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Sep
28
2005

man – 1, the giant squid – 0

apparently some japanese researchers have captured the first ever footage of a giant squid in the wild. they lured it with a huge ball of shrimp, and the beast actually *tore off* one of its huge tentacles while struggling to break free of the net (it somehow got caught up in the shrimp-ball). [...]

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