Piezofenestration
May 10th, 2007
Engineers at Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability in Darmstadt, Germany apparently have found a way to cancel out environmental noise using the very windows that normally amplify it.
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change
May 9th, 2007
radiationsymbol from wikipedia
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illusive
May 7th, 2007
A recommendation for the book “illusive – Contemporary Illustration And Its Context”. Die Gestalten Verlag. ISBN: 3-89955-085-4 2nd printing, 2006 (version 2005)
Der richtige Fo kus
May 3rd, 2007
“sich kreuzende Blicke”
Charles Ton
April 28th, 2007
“Asci mails dancing together”
For the long Mayday weekend: Amazing Al Minns and Leon James dancing together in this ukrainian Mash-up by the band Танок На Майдані Конґо. I am probably a bit biased due to my fondness for eastern european music — since of course the daft punk–mash up and the original version of the Charleston are also very very good.
Mathema Exhibition
April 27th, 2007An exhibition on mathematics is planned to open October 08 at the Deutsches Technik Museum Berlin. Fall 08 is still some time ahead but the website is already online:
Mathema exhibition
stadtschloss
April 25th, 2007
The big local news here in Berlin are the mutual consent of the city of Berlin and the federal government of Germany on the financing of the Humboldt Forum – a collection of buildings in the heart of Berlin intended for cultural and scientific interchange.
Musical chairs
April 23rd, 2007
new scientist reported about tests performed on a recent conference in which radio networks are used for wireless communication, a feature commonly called cognitive radio.
An experimental test of nonlocal realism
April 23rd, 2007A little excursion to the foundations of quantum mechanics:
Anton Zeilinger and collaborators paper “An experimental test of nonlocal realism” just came out in Nature, luckily there is also a publicly readable preprint version on the archive, the ORF reported about it here (link via Anton Zeilingers blog).