Remember the 2002 film, “Minority Report”? May have been prescient; brother Dennis tells of this Village Voice piece about LinkNYC.
Category: science and tech
Juno in Orbit
More at the NY Times here, and follow NASA TV here.
They Just Wanna Be Free
The Pace Quickens: Megaparsecs and Dark Energy
NASA and the European Space Agency now have evidence that the universe is expanding up to 9% faster than previously believed.
Btw, is anyone watching Stephen Hawking’s Genius series on PBS (with National Geographic)? This has to be the most ingeniously lay-approachable thing yet from Hawking and is just another testament to his … well, genius.
3D Printed Aircraft
Airbus has developed a small functioning aircraft almost entirely (except for electrical components) by 3D printer.
SpaceX Does It Again
Droneship Landing
rDay Three-Hundred-Seventy-Six
Today we drop in on old friends & ex-employer at their new place of business. Operational but not quite unpacked. Everything was done in the dead of night, with all ISP employees in place by April 1. The Internet survived.
Elon on 3
Tesla Unveils Model 3 from Tesla Motors on Vimeo.
The Human Face of Big Data
As a kind of postscript to the recent post, “Big Data and Disease “, if you can see the 2014 film, “The Human Face of Big Data”, or read the 2012 book of the same name, you will still find it to be timely. Recently aired on PBS in its entirety, it should be available in book and DVD form from Amazon and the usual suspects. Try your local library. Here is a trailer: