wiki Myhrvold attended Mirman School, and began college at age 14. He studied mathematics, geophysics, and space physics at UCLA (BSc, Masters). At Princeton he earned a master's degree in mathematical economics and completed a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics by age 23. He also attended Santa Monica College. For one year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking, studying cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation, but left to co-found a computer startup in Oakland, California. The company, Dynamical Systems Research Inc., sought to produce Mondrian, a clone of IBM's TopView multitasking environment for DOS. Microsoft purchased DSR in 1986 and Myhrvold worked there for 13 years. At Microsoft he founded Microsoft Research in 1991.Myhrvold is a real polymath. In this TED talk he shares some of his interests. He also has a cheap way to mitigate global warming through geo-engineering. Here's a white paper on the proposal. He also puts too much emphasis on the H :)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Nathan Myhrvold
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sleepbox, an One-Person Hotel
Monday, December 28, 2009
Does Dubai have enough landmarks/icons?
I was wondering this because it looks like they only build landmarks in one of the new world city: Dubai.
Picture of the Palm islands
Also they got alot of skyscrapers (click link for all the skycrapers of Dubai) that are landmark worthy. Here are some of my favorites:
World’s tallest building Burj Dubai (nice site with 5 years photo archive of how its build)
Dancing towers made by Zaha Hadid
Dancing/signature towers
Burj Al-Arab world’s only ‘seven star’ hotel.
And then they got some new plans like the ‘deathstar’ from OMA.
Death star by Rem Koolhaas i assume its inspired by Star Wars
The question is are this to many landmarks?
As an architecture lover I say no, there are never to many landmarks! There are many city’s with lots of landmarks I take New York as an example. New York got the statue of liberty, Guggenheim museum, World trade center (luckly it wasn't the only landmark of NY), Brooklyn bridge, Empire state building, Chrysler Building, Time Square and many more. Nobody will say that New York got to much landmarks because they created a beautifull city and they all got another main function like being an office or museum etc. There is one Exception and that’s the Statue of liberty the main and only function of the statue of liberty is being a landmark/icon.
So my statement is a city can only handle 1 or max 2 landmark/icon with the only function of being a landmark/icon.
Some examples:
Paris: Eifel Tower
Brussel: Atomium
London: Big Ben
Washington DC: Washington Monument.
These landmarks/icons have as only function to be an icon and this makes them most of the time the main icons of the city.
In Dubai all the landmarks/icons have another main function like office, residential or hotels. All this buildings are all big investments for a small piece of the spotlight. I don’t know if they are worth the investment but they create a beautiful city that is impossible to ignore in future.
Stop web sites from resizing Firefox windows
# In Firefox go to Tools > Options # Go to the Content Tab # To the right of "Enable Javascript," hit "Advanced..." # Uncheck "Move or resize existing windows"Fixed!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
1:10 scale Saturn V launch
NGC A replica of a NASA Saturn V rocket, the massive model broke the world record for the tallest and heaviest model rocket that's ever been launched and recovered—36 feet (11 meters) and 1,648 pounds (750 kilograms), respectively.Quite an extreme hobby.
Phallus Slow Motion
"The champion phallus from this Meller’s duck is a long, spiraling tentacle. Some ducks grow phalluses as long as their entire body. In the fall, the genitalia will disappear, only to reappear next spring.
The anatomy of ducks is especially bizarre considering that 97 percent of all bird species have no phallus at all. Most male birds just deliver their sperm through an opening. Dr. Brennan is investigating how this sexual wonder of the world came to be."
Friday, December 25, 2009
NOS nieuws
Thursday, December 24, 2009
How the BBC makes those awesome timelapses
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
All is Green Screen
Sunday, December 20, 2009
"The Ultimate Rainbow Quiz"
Man in a Clock
This clock does not actually have a man inside but a flatscreen that plays a 24 hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute.Imagine doing that for 12 hours to complete the sequence.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Nationale Wetenschapsquiz (5/5)
Vraag 13: Hoe zorgt het gif van de Australische tijgerslang ervoor dat je uit veel van je lichaamsopeningen gaat bloeden?
A. | Je bloed gaat stollen |
B. | Je maakt extra bloedplasma aan |
C. | Je bloedplaatjes worden afgebroken |
Vraag 14: Wanneer is je verwachte winst bij de Staatsloterij het grootst?
A. | Als je een heel lot koopt |
B. | Als je twee hele loten koopt met verschillend eindcijfer |
C. | Als je een straat koopt (10 hele loten met verschillend eindcijfer) |
Vraag 15: Waar droogt secondelijm het snelst?
A. | Onder een föhn |
B. | Boven een stoomapparaat |
C. | Voor een airconditioner |
Friday, December 18, 2009
Coconut Octopus
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Nationale Wetenschapsquiz 2009 (4/5)
Vraag 10: Hoe spant een spin een draad tussen twee bomen die een stukje uit elkaar staan?
A. | Hij loopt via de grond met de draad van de ene naar de andere boom en trekt de draad strak |
B. | Hij schommelt aan de draad naar de andere boom |
C. | Hij wacht op een windvlaag en laat de draad vastwaaien aan de andere boom |
Vraag 11: Je metselt nieuwe stenen in een bestaande muur van je huis, maar ze zijn iets donkerder dan de oude stenen. Wat kun je het beste doen?
A. | De nieuwe steenlaag voegen met wit voegsel |
B. | De nieuwe steenlaag voegen met zwart voegsel |
C. | De nieuwe steenlaag bespuiten met een zoutoplossing |
Vraag 12: Wat gebeurt er als de mond van een stofzuiger wordt afgesloten?
A. | De motor in de stofzuiger wordt zwaarder belast |
B. | De motor in de stofzuiger wordt even zwaar belast |
C. | De motor in de stofzuiger wordt minder zwaar belast |
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
extreme gaming
Embryonic solar systems in the Orion Nebula
Looking deep inside the Orion Nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning collection of protoplanetary disks – or proplyds – which are embryonic solar systems in the making. Using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), researchers have discovered 42 protoplanetary blobs, which are being illuminated by a bright star cluster. These disks, which sometimes appear like boomerangs, arrows, or space jellyfish, surround baby stars and are shedding light on the mechanism behind planet formation. More...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Worlds best christmas card
Monday, December 14, 2009
Nationale Wetenschapsquiz 2009 (3/5)
Vraag 7: Welk wapen had een neanderthaler meestal bij zich?
A. | Een speer |
B. | Een knots |
C. | Pijl en boog |
Vraag 8: Wat gebeurt er met het gewicht van een usb-stick als je er bestanden op zet?
A. | Het gewicht van de stick neemt een klein beetje toe |
B. | Het gewicht van de stick neemt een klein beetje af |
C. | Het gewicht van de stick blijft exact gelijk |
Vraag 9: Is het doen van push-ups voor lange en korte mensen even moeilijk?
A. | Nee, voor lange mensen is het makkelijker |
B. | Nee, voor korte mensen is het makkelijker |
C. | Hoe moeilijk push-ups zijn hangt van je lichaamsbouw af, niet van je lengte |
DIY train
"The six-seater train - made out of garden furniture and salvaged train parts - was powered by an electric motor and even had its own refreshments car in the shape of a crate of beer.
Police however had to call in a helicopter to find and follow the makeshift train as the police cars could not follow it along the tracks.
"It seems to be one of those mad pub ideas that actually happened. They didn't seem to realise they could have caused a serious accident if they'd got anywhere near a real train," said one officer."
Sunday, December 13, 2009
My new kitty cat truffel
Thursday, December 10, 2009
FOX has trouble with percentages AGAIN
Robo-Air Jet System Makes Objects Float
"The system consists of a gimbaled air jet with two degrees of freedom. The air jet is supplied up to 620 kPa through a DC motor-controlled valve. Stereo vision cameras track the objects, and a control algorithm uses the position data and a fluid dynamics model to adjust the air jet, varying its speed and direction to keep the object in equilibrium." - [full paper here]
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Nationale Wetenschapsquiz 2009 (2/5)
A. Hij loopt sneller leeg en vliegt sneller weg dan op aarde
B. Hij loopt langzaam leeg en zakt naar beneden
C. Hij loopt niet leeg en blijft zweven waar je hem hebt losgelaten
Vraag 5: Hoe lang duurt het ongeveer voordat een geheim dat eens per uur alleen door de laatste ingewijden wordt doorverteld aan drie nieuwe personen de wereld rond is?
A. Een dag
B. Een weekend
C. Een week
Vraag 6: Voor welke schaarse grondstof bleek melk in de Tweede Wereldoorlog een alternatief te bieden?
A. Smeerolie
B. Wol
C. Cement
The Pop-Up Book of Phobias
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
The rainbowboys after 2000+ posts
Monday, December 07, 2009
Nationale Wetenschapsquiz 2009 (1/5)
Dutch Hockeystick
Saturday, December 05, 2009
2000 Posts!
Friday, December 04, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Great building modelling tool for Google Earth
Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth. It's fun to use, and an easy way to get on the 3D map. Start modeling at http://www.google.com/buildingmakerFor the Netherlands, you can only model buildings in Rotterdam at the moment. It works pretty good and it's quite smart how it uses the aerial photos to automatically texture the buildings.