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Word cloud of tweets from the Science Online London conference. Collection of all tweets using the #solo11 hashtag, @usernames and common twitter cruft (RT, MT etc) removed.
The word cloud is produced using tagxedo.com, and is in the shape of the Science Online London logo (the thumbnail probably shows this more clearly, where you focus on the whitespace, and not the words).
http://www.thesgrprogram.com/?m=439b604a
Michael Beckwith, Bob Proctor and Jack Canfield from the movie the Secret
A Global phenomenon is Being Launched and a FREE Wealth Report Awaits YOU…
With the international following that this movie has generated, three teachers featured in the movie; Bob Proctor, Rev. Michael Beckwith and Jack Canfield have designed a new global concept called The SGR Program and is built upon the Science of Getting Rich, a Step-By-Step program that teaches you How to Master the Law of Attraction and Make it Work for You.
Construction progress on the historic building and the assembly of the tilt-up panels for the new addition.
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Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture’s design for the Powerhouse Science Center re-envisions a historic riverfront structure as a hub for science education, exploration and promotion in the City of Sacramento. On the banks of the Sacramento River, the Science Center grows out from an abandoned power station building. As a principal component of the Riverfront activation, the Powerhouse Science Center anchors Robert T. Matsui Waterfront Park and borders the southern terminus of the 32-mile American River Bike Trail.
Vacant for over half a century, the structure undergoes a complete historic rehabilitation and the construction of a new floor level inside. A new two-story addition projects from the east side, containing a lobby, classrooms, offices and a cafe. A 110-seat planetarium is prominently on display with a zinc-clad hemispheric dome rising above the building’s mass. As representation of our place in the universe, the facade and building mass is sectioned by multiple planes, creating continuous vector lines that extend across the building and site. From satellites to world landmarks, the lines form connections with local and global points of interest.
The original PG&E Power Station B was designed in 1912 in the Beaux Arts Style by architect Willis Polk and was formally closed in 1954. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Places and the Sacramento Register of Historic & Cultural Resources. The Powerhouse Science Center is designed to achieve a USGBC LEED Rating of Silver.
Photo by Otto Construction.
September, 2012: Construction is now in progress on the park's new Science and Resource Management Facility, near Market Plaza and just south and east of Park Headquarters. Visitors will notice the construction as they pass by the site, but at this time, impacts to park traffic flow will be minimal.. NPS photo by Michael Quinn.
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The new facility will be approximately 8,500 square feet, consist of two floors, be universally accessible, and will include employee offices, general work space, meeting space, restrooms, a small public-use library, and storage...
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A new parking area will also be constructed at the facility that will accommodate government vehicles, park staff and those visiting the facility. The new facility is also adjacent to a network of trails and nearby shuttle bus stops that will allow for employees to walk, bike or ride the park shuttle bus to and from work...
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Learn more about the project here: www.nps.gov/grca/parknews/new-location-awaits-science-and...
SANDIA'S MOBILE AUTONOMOUS WHEELED VEHICLE (MARV).
SANDIA'S LARGE ROBOTICS RESEARCH PROGRAM IS DEVELOPING ROBOTS FOR TASKS SUCH AS CLEANING TOXIC WASTE, DISMANTLING NUCLEAR BOMBS AND PERFORMING MICROSURGERY. MARV IS A PROTOTYPE MINI ROBOT, DEVLEOPED TO HELP SCIENTISTS WITH THE PROBLEMS OF BUILDING TINY AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS. RESEARCHERS HOPE MARV WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINES THAN CAN DESTROY LAND MINES AND/OR WARN OF A CHEMICAL ATTACK.
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A fellow astronomy student carefully monitors progress of an observation in the Parkes Radiotelescope control room. Observing is an exhausting business. You need to keep a careful eye on all the equipment while it's doing those 50-minute integrations!
"Habits of thought in the tradition of science are not readily changed, it is not easy to deviate from the customary channels of accumulated experience in conventionalized subjects."
– G. L. Jepsen (1949) as quoted by Niles Eldredge, "Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria" (1985).
"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand and Stars".
"What sort of countenance does love have? What sort of shape does it have? What sort of height does it have? What sort of feet does it have? What sort of hands does it have? No one can say. Yet it has feet, for they lead to the Church. It has hands, for they stretch out to the poor person. It has eyes, for that is how he is in need is understood: Blessed, it says, is he who understands."
– Augustine of Hippo, "Homilies on the First Epistle of John".
Author: Wolfgang Beyer
Date: 4th December 2006
Description: Partial view of the Mandelbrot set. Step 7 of a zoom sequence: Each of this crowns consists of similar "seahorse tails". Their number increases with powers of 2, a typical phenomenon in the environment of satellites. The unique path to the spiral center mentioned in zoom step 5 passes the satellite from the groove of the cardioid to the top of the "antenna" on the "head". Also observe that the starting view is located in the center.
Technique: Use of the program Ultra Fractal 3
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg
Image and caption provided by: Miguel Matos, undegraduate student, FCUL
The second Christian Science church built in Chicago is the oldest that still offers services. Architect Solon S. Beman patterned this Beaux-Arts structure after his Merchant Tailors building from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It is built of Bedford limestone and granite. The church at 2700 N. Pine Grove Ave. was dedicated on Easter Sunday 1901.
NOTE: An application before the Zoning Committee on December 1, 2020, is seeking approval to put a 7-story, 26-unit residential building behind the church. The structure will be set back 26 feet from W. Wrightwood Avenue and 24 feet from N. Pine Grove Avenue, where it will have its entrance.
NOTE 2: Three existing walls of the Second Church of Christ Scientist are being prepared in January 2024 for integration into a new 6-story mixed-use structure. The collaboration between Ogden Partners and Booth Hansen aims to preserve a portion of the original Beaux-Arts facade designed by Solon S. Beman. The church will continue operations within the building, occupying more than 4,700 square feet of space on the ground floor. The revised plan for the residential component now includes 22 apartment units, reduced from the initially proposed 26.
I took a free tour of the Science Barge, a not-for-profit enterprise which is trying to prove that NYC's food needs could be met using renewable energy.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano working inside the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) on the International Space Station. Luca tweeted this image with the text: Working inside LSG for the Micro15 experiment, I prepare some samples of cells to be incubated in microgravity: an experiment that’s only possible on board the ISS.
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Credit: ESA/NASA
Science Homework: Diffusion Practical - The glass on the left started with clear water, and the glass on the right a coffee solution. Coffee solution was gradually added to the clear water.
Tour de Suisse par l'Extérieur
Maison d'Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (/ˈæmpɪər/;[1] French: [ɑ̃pɛʁ]; 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836)[2] was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.
Biography[edit]
Andre-Marie Ampère was born on 20 January 1775 to Jean-Jacques Ampère, a prosperous businessman, and Jeanne Antoinette Desutières-Sarcey Ampère during the height of the French Enlightenment. He spent his childhood and adolescence at the family property at Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon.[3] Jean-Jacques Ampère, a successful merchant, was an admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education (as outlined in his treatise Émile) were the basis of Ampère’s education. Rousseau believed that young boys should avoid formal schooling and pursue instead an “education direct from nature.” Ampère’s father actualized this ideal by allowing his son to educate himself within the walls of his well-stocked library. French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (begun in 1749) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert’s Encyclopédie (volumes added between 1751 and 1772) thus became Ampère’s schoolmasters. The young Ampère, however, soon resumed his Latin lessons, which enabled him to master the works of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli.
Work in electromagnetism[edit]
In September 1820, Ampère’s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current. Ampère began developing a mathematical and physical theory to understand the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Furthering Ørsted’s experimental work, Ampère showed that two parallel wires carrying electric currents attract or repel each other, depending on whether the currents flow in the same or opposite directions, respectively - this laid the foundation of electrodynamics. He also applied mathematics in generalizing physical laws from these experimental results. The most important of these was the principle that came to be called Ampère’s law, which states that the mutual action of two lengths of current-carrying wire is proportional to their lengths and to the intensities of their currents. Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb’s law of magnetic action. Ampère’s devotion to, and skill with, experimental techniques anchored his science within the emerging fields of experimental physics.
Ampère also provided a physical understanding of the electromagnetic relationship, theorizing the existence of an “electrodynamic molecule” (the forerunner of the idea of the electron) that served as the component element of both electricity and magnetism. Using this physical explanation of electromagnetic motion, Ampère developed a physical account of electromagnetic phenomena that was both empirically demonstrable and mathematically predictive. In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l’experience (Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.
In 1827 Ampère was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.[5] In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère’s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
Scenes from the Team Science workshop held at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Eastern Shore Lab in Wachapreague,Virginia in November 2018.
Virginia Sea Grant, VIMS, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Virginia, and the University of Central Florida selected 36 graduate students to participate in a pilot professional development workshop focusing on team problem-solving and research fieldwork through a trans-disciplinary approach.
(Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology: Addressing Current and Emerging Development Challenges. IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 29 November 2018
SESSION 1: Improving Quality of Life
PANEL 1.1B: Human Health
The contribution of applications of nuclear science and technology to the well-being of society is visible all around. The IAEA has been at the forefront of enlarging the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology for sustainable development in Member States through capacity building, technology transfer and the dissemination of knowledge, mainly and especially through its Technical Cooperation Programme. In this session, the Conference will discuss factors that impact the quality of life such as energy, materials, industry, environment, food and agriculture, nutrition, human health and water resources, and the various techniques which contribute to socio-economic sustainable development, as well as their ever-expanding innovations in new areas with unprecedented possibilities. The discussion will include the role of the IAEA in the delivery of these techniques to its Member States.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Moderator: Mr Nicholas Banatvala, Senior Advisor on NonCommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)
Panellists:
Ms Sylvie Chevillard, Head, Experimental Cancerology Lab, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France
Ms Mary Gospodarowicz, Medical Director, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada; former President, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
Mr Jun Hatazawa, Professor and Chairman, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics; Director, Medical Imaging Center for Translational Research, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Mr Jatinder R. Palta, Professor and Chair of Medical Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University; Chief Physicist, National Radiation Oncology Program, Veterans Health Affairs, United States of America
Mr Mike Sathekge, Head, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa Moderated Discussion
Photos from the Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age exhibit at the Museum of Science. Quoting from their description:
Travel back to a time when humans shared the stage with woolly giants! Examine full-scale replicas of massive Ice Age mammals, including Lyuba, a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered by a Siberian reindeer herder in 2007. The exhibit also features some of the oldest art in existence, huge skulls and tusks, weird and wonderful mammoth relatives, and mastodon bones collected by William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame) for President Thomas Jefferson's own collection.
This exhibition was created by The Field Museum, Chicago.
OU's oldest building, named Science Hall, was completed in 1904, as was a sister building, the Carnegie Library, which still faces across the oval flanking Evans Hall. (The Sooner Story, page 20)
Photo credit: The Norman Transcript via The Sooner Story.
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DR JAY PETERSEN ADJUSTS THE LARGE GONI-OMETER INSTALLED IN A SPECIALLY SHIELDED CAVE OF THE A W WRIGHT NUCLEAR - YALE.
THE CAVE IS UNDER 20 FEET OF EARTH AND HAS 3 FOOT WALLS, FLOOR AND CEILING OF A SPECIAL CONCRETE CONTAINING NONE OF THE COMMON NATURALLY RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES (E.G. THORIUM AND POTASSIUM) SO THAT THE NORMAL RADIATION BACKGROUND LEVEL IS LESS THAN ONE THOUSANDTH OF THAT IN A TYPICAL RESIDENCE. THE PROJECTILE BEAM FROM THE ACCELERATOR ENTERS FROM THE RIGHT, AND PASSES THROUGH THE TARGET UNDER STUDY IN THE CENTRAL HEMISPHERICAL CHAMBER BEFORE EXITING TO THE LOWER LEFT AND BEING STOPPED IN AN UNDERGROUND BEAM DUMP OUTSIDE OF THE CAVE. ONE OF THE LARGE, COMPUTER CONTROLLED GAMMA RADIATION DETECTORS IS SHOWN ON ITS OVERHEAD MOUNT TO THE LEFT OF DR. PETERSEN, A NUMBER OF SUCH DETECTORS MAY BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY UNDER ON-LINE COMPUTER CONTROL IN THE MEASUREMENT OF CHARACTERISTIC RADIATION PATTERNS FROM THE TARGET NUCLEI UNDER STUDY FOLLOWING THEIR STIMULATION BY THE PROJECTILES IN THE BEAM.
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ISPC Science Forum 2016 held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12–14 Apr 2016 (photo credit: ILRI / Susan MacMillan)
SHOWN IS NANO-SIZED CRYSTALS OF COBALT OXIDE, AN EARTH-ABUNDANT CATALYST, HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY CARRY OUT THE CRITICAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION OF SPLITTING WATER MOLECULES AT LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY.
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Minister Bruce Ralston joined a moderator and three featured panelists for a conversation about the future of work, co-sponsored by Amazon and Canada Learning Code.
Amazon and Canada Learning announced a new partnership to support Canada Learning Code’s K-12 education programs. Amazon’s $525,000, three-year investment in Canada Learning Code will support CLC’s Code Mobiles, which brings computer science lessons to students in rural areas; Canada Learning Code Week which delivers coding lessons to over 25,000 youth learners across the county; and the building of a Canada K-12 Computer Science Framework to develop a set of core computer science principles that drive computer science education.