A group of aeromedical specialists saw problems with the oxygenation of pilots in the F-22 and came up with a package of fixes for it. The fix per aircraft would have been $100,000 but the costs were deemed too high and the group was disbanded in 2007.
Air Force Insiders Foresaw F-22 Woes | Military.com.
They’ve put him on the same status as Al Quaida, so who knows, will they try to assassinate him? And if US personell try to talk to Wikileaks employees, they’re spies and will be shot (I guess).
US calls Assange 'enemy of state'.
This looked like the best site about the place
The panels are laminated glass infused with photovoltaic cells. Each panel contains rows of cells arranged so that natural light can shine through. The new product is said to deliver a solar power conversion efficiency of about 6.8-percent with a maximum output of 95 watts. The module can also act as a heat shield, preventing heat from passing through the glass.
Sharp's solar panels throw posh light on city high-rise.
A project sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has made a detailed investigation on what viewers understand and how they evaluate the statements of politicians during televised debates. To this effect, software-assisted conversation analysis established how the individual social knowledge of viewers nurtures the interpretations – and reinterpretations – of political statements. For the first time, the roles played by differing interpretive frames in our comprehension of political reality were able to be assessed realistically and in detail.
FWF Austrian Science Fund – Press – Discursive Politics – Language with a Spin.
The Frame Project investigates fundamental processes of understanding and alignment in public opinion formation. Effects of political rhetoric depend on how it is understood and reacted to by audiences
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force received a brutal wake-up call when 15 insurgents broke through the wire at Bastion at about 22:00 local time. Dressed in US combat fatigues and armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests, they launched “a well-coordinated attack,” it says.
Once on the base, the raiders attacked the USMC flightline, destroying six AV-8B Harriers, significantly damaging another two and killing two Marines, including Lt Col Christopher Raible, commanding officer of the VMA-211 squadron to which the jets were assigned
Camp Bastion attack shocks ISAF – The DEW Line.
Triggertrap | Creative ways of triggering your camera.
This consists of a dongle and an app for iphone / android
A study of 61 million Facebook users finds that using online social networks to urge people to vote has a much stronger effect on their voting behavior than spamming them with information via television ads or phone calls.
via 'Social Voting' Really Does Rock the Vote – ScienceNOW.
During their research, they used water-repellent ferrous nanoparticles mixed in with the oil, in order to separate it later with magnets. The amazing part is that once the nanoparticles are magnetically removed from the oil, they can then be reused.
Wait, can’t they then throw nanoparticles into an oil resevoir and then use a magnet to lift the oil without pumping?
The GeoDa Center for Geographical Analysis & Computation, led by ASU Regents’ Professor Luc Anselin, has just released a new version of its signature software, OpenGeoDa. The software provides a user-friendly interface to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling. It has been used to better understand issues ranging from health care access to economic development to crime clusters. It is freely downloadable and open-source.
via New software helps reveal patterns in space and time.
You can download the software (and other analytics software) here
Adhocracy is a policy drafting tool for distributed groups. It allows members of organizations or the public to compose or vote documents that represent the policy of the group.
In order to allow cooperation, Adhocracy uses LiquidDemocracy, a set of ideas that include delegating a user’s voting rights to another to enable both active and passive participation in the process. We also implement ideas from Direkter Parlamentarismus, a theory of mass participation in parliamentary processes.
An alternative is LiquidFeedback, an open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making.
The basic idea is a democratic system in which most issues are decided (or strongly suggested to representatives) by direct referendum. Considering nobody has enough time and knowledge for every issue, votes can be delegated by topic. Furthermore delegations are transitive and can be revoked at any time. Liquid Democracy is sometimes referred to as Delegated or Proxy Voting.
This article sold me on the Cloth Addiction microfiber cloth. Hopefully they’ll send some to Europe.
The Overhyped, Dumbly Named, Completely Awesome Microfiber Cloth.
LG Chem says it has a cable-type lithium-ion battery that is so flexible it can be tied in knots and worn as a bracelet or woven into textiles. For mobile device designers, the eventual commercial production of such a battery would be a very big deal in reducing design constraints. Flexible batteries have been created before but made in flat sheets and have not stored much energy. The LG Chem flexible battery is thin and very flexible, able to be placed anywhere in any shape. Thin strands of copper wire are coated with nickel-tin. The strands are made into a metal yarn and wrapped around a rod. Once the rod is removed, a strong spring results.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-lg-chem-cable-batteries-reshape.html#jCp
LG Chem cable batteries may reshape mobile designs.