Author Archives: PlatoHagel

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment )02

Posted on August 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Credit: NASA/JSC, NASA During the 14-day mission, Endeavour delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. This was the 36th shuttle mission to the … Continue reading →

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Subcarrier-Index Modulation OFDM

Posted on August 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Do you know that we have 1.4 million cellular radio masts deployed worldwide? And these are base stations. And we also have more than five billion of these devices here. These are cellular mobile phones. And with these mobile phones, … Continue reading →

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Google Search Charcters: Eliza and The Wayback Machine

Posted on July 30, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.Soren Kierkegaard Now this quote above by Soren is not just an application, to a point of view, but of an idea about what we can funnel through and forward … Continue reading →

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The Plato’s Cave Study: Does Bullshit Truly Baffle Brains?”

Posted on July 28, 2011 by PlatoHagel

”Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor … Continue reading →

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Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron

Posted on July 22, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Ξb0). This particle contains three quarks: a strange quark, an up quark and a bottom quark … Continue reading →

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Igniting Neurons:Time Travel

Posted on July 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.Soren Kierkegaard The image illustrates the Wayback machine from the Mr. Peabody and Sherman segment of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. The image supports the article on the subject: Wayback … Continue reading →

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Posted on July 19, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Exterior photo of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Alexandria, Egypt. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina or Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah (English: Library of Alexandria; Arabic: مكتبة الإسكندرية‎) is a major library and cultural center located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive: WayBack Machine

Posted on July 18, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Internet Archive Coordinates: 37°46′56.3″N 122°28′17.65″W Internet Archive Type Digital library Founded 1996 Key people Brewster Kahle (Chairman) Website archive.org Alexa rank 230 (April 2011)[1] Available in English Internet Archive headquarters was in the Presidio, a former US military base in San … Continue reading →

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CERN brings hardware into the open

Posted on July 17, 2011 by PlatoHagel

It good to see great minds think alike?:) The Open Hardware Repository was inspired by the success of open-source software. (Image courtesy CERN.) Hardware and software go hand in hand – one doesn’t work without the other. Despite being so … Continue reading →

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Messier 8

Posted on July 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Seen through small telescopes and binoculars as a fuzzy glow, M8 is a region of intense star formation with a characteristic pink hue from ionized hydrogen (Balmer H-α recombination line). While red is indeed the hydrogen emission in this image … Continue reading →

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