[Video] A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami

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This work is very interesting and will definitely help in the detection of widespread diseases like Tuberculosis (TB) in developing countries. The only primary obstacle that needs a real solution is countering the monopoly by vaccine manufacturers.


link: http://on.ted.com/c045D

Foldscope: Microscopy for everyone: http://www.foldscope.com/
Manu Prakash’s lab page: http://stanford.edu/~manup/

“Morpheus Project” for non-toxic spacecraft propellant and “Loon” for Internet from the Stratosphere

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Morpheus Lander (a NASA JSC project)

Morpheus is a vertical test bed vehicle demonstrating new green propellant propulsion systems and autonomous landing and hazard detection technology. Designed, developed, manufactured and operated in-house by engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the Morpheus Project represents not only a vehicle to advance technologies, but also an opportunity to try out “lean development” engineering practices.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Morpheus
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MorpheusLander/featured
Originally seen on Gizmodo: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-not-a-frame-from-a-science-fiction-movie-1537271129

Project Loon: The Technology (a Google project)

We believe it’s possible to create a ring of balloons that fly around the globe on the stratospheric winds and provide Internet access to the earth below. Balloons present some really hard science problems, but we’re excited about the progress so far.
To learn more, visit: http://google.com/loon.

“the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

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In this video, an extract from an interview, Richard P. Feynman speaks about the difference between knowing the name of something and actually knowing it.

Tip: WordPress & Footnotes

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To make linked footnotes [1], add the following (in text mode) just before your footnotes:

</pre>
<h4 id="footnotes">Footnotes</h4>
<pre>

Now you need to link each footnote number in the text by using the link of your post and suffixing it (after the /) with

#footnotes

To see an example hover your cursor over or click any linked number in the text and notice how the url of the post changes. It’s a manual labor but I think it’s sometimes worth it.

Footnotes

[1] Creating Footnotes in WP https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/creating-footnotes-in-wordpress/

Tip: WordPress & LaTeX

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WordPress is known to support \LaTeX like

i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\left|\Psi(t)\right>=H\left|\Psi(t)\right>

To embed equations using \LaTeX precede your \LaTeX code with “latex” and sandwich this with $ as follows [1][2]:

$latex your-latex-code$

To change the size precede the last $ sign with &s=2 like this:

$latex your-latex-code&s=2$

where 2 is the size which could be any number (as far as I know). For example, the Schrödinger equation above is of size 2. It was generated using:

$latex i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\left|\Psi(t)\right>=H\left|\Psi(t)\right>&s=2$

Footnotes

[1] LaTeX in WP http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/math-for-the-masses/
[2] WP Support http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/