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Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale
Filed under: Physics, Uncategorized Tagged: Engineering, fluid dynamics, Nanoscale
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The phenomenal feat SpaceX achieved
For some reasons I missed the live cast of the launch and landing that SpaceX did. Here’s the deal in short. They launched the Falcon 9 rocket into space, passed the maximum Q at which aerodynamic...
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“We don’t have to live in a world where 99% of rapists get away with it”,...
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: rape, sexual assault, sexual harassement, TED, video
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Maps for Linux & Ubuntu
Everyone uses digital maps these days, I assume. At least I do. Since I’ve been using them more often lately, I checked if there are any apps for Linux and especially Ubuntu. The search returned 4...
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Evernote in Linux
For some reason Evernote doesn’t seem to care about Linux users. They prefer to work on their (slow) web interface. I don’t understand how much harder is it to modify the Mac app for Linux? The main...
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WordPress has a Linux client?
Why haven’t I known about this earlier? While going through my profile account I discovered there’s a desktop client for Linux and specifically an Ubuntu package. I immediately installed. You can...
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Earth has a non-threatening small orbiting asteroid
It was recently discovered that a small asteroid has been in a stable orbit around Earth for at least a decade. The nature of its orbit “prevents the asteroid from approaching much closer than about 38...
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Flat plate vortex formation at low Reynolds number
Robbie Stevens: Flat plate vortex formation at low Reynolds number The Photograph shown is the raw image with no alterations. The image depicts a flat plate wing, which is simultaneously pitching and...
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Your Phone, Tablet, and Computer Screens Aren’t Safe from Hackers
Pixels on your gadgets’ screens act as accidental antennae that constantly broadcast screens’ contents. A new paper says the industry needs to fix this security risk before hackers can exploit it. …...
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Computer Simulation of an Earthquake at the Hayward fault in California
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of “strain” that is built-up between two tectonic boundaries or at a fault line*, usually slipping in opposite directions. The following video by the...
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Reading a Seismogram, a Funny & Illustrated Guide
Filed under: Geophysics, Uncategorized Tagged: Geophysics, seismology, video
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How to grow a forest in your backyard, Shubhendu Sharma
Filed under: Life Science, Uncategorized Tagged: agriculture, forestry, planting, reminder
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The science of sync, Steven Strogatz
Filed under: Physics Tagged: chaos, Complex systems, TED, video
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Deepest part of the Ocean
The deepest part in Earth’s oceanic crust is the Mariana Trench which is a located in the western Pacific ocean east of the Mariana islands near the Philippines and Japan. The trench is the location...
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A Seismological Journey Inside the Earth
A Seismological Journey Inside the Earth – From Plate Tectonics to Deep Earth Dynamics 2016 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer Caroline Beghein, U.C. Los AngelesFiled under: Geophysics, Uncategorized...
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Bacteria Breaking Antibiotic Environments
The video below by researchers at the Harvard Medical School and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology shows bacteria break zones of ever increasing concentrations of antibiotics hence demonstrates...
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OSIRIS-REx on a mission to asteroid Bennu and back by 2023
Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission, the first mission to sample an asteroid, was launched from Cape Canaveral on September 8. The...
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Lab simulation of Strike-slip fault deformation using glass beads
via Strike-slip deformation with erosion and cross sections – The Field – AGU Blogosphere Original post @ The Geo ModelsFiled under: Geophysics Tagged: faults, geo-series, geology
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Earthquake Seismic Waves modeled using Ifrasound
Citation: Jacobsen, E. (2016), Seismic wave videos combine sight and sound, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO060261. Published on 04 October 2016.Filed under: Geophysics Tagged: earthquake, Geophysics,...
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Structural Geology Collection @ Paris-Sud & Paris-Saclay
Universite Paris-Sud & Universite Paris-Saclay launched a website for the structural geology collection at University of South Paris (Paris-Sud). They call it the “StructuroTheque“. The website...
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