Why we need a Hubble for the seas - CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/28/ulmer.hubble.seas/?hpt=C2

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Education and inspiration via underwater robot

A great book and the primary resource we use for our rov kit student projects!

http://www.gizmag.com/book-teaches-kids-to-build-rovs/17371/

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Dec. 27, 1831: Beagle Sets Sail With a Very Special Passenger | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

http://m.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/12/1227beagle-sets-sail-darwin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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BBC News - 3D proves a hit in the classroom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11891753

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Make: Online : The iFixit Repair Manifesto

A great manifesto concept for anyone who works with field equipment and a rallying cry for any AUV owner operator.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/the_ifixit_repair_manifesto.html

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Oldest research sub Alvin set for rebirth : Nature News

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101216/full/news.2010.682.html?s=news_rss

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Track Santa's journey in Google Earth

From Google Earth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/NQnHpTh8LUA/watch_santa_as_he_flies_around_the.html

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Simulate forest fires with ForeFire

From Google Earth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/drwlt8EEAwY/simulate_forest_fires_with_forefire.html

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German university has awesome slides of maximum efficiency

How awesomely green and fun!

MAKE Magazine
December 23, 2010 4:00 PM
by Matt Mets

German university has awesome slides of maximum efficiency

These giant parabolic slides, or Parabelrutsche are located in the Mathematik/Informatik building of the Technical University of Munich, Garching campus. The preferred method for riding them appears to be on boring carpet squares, however a quick search shows that more daring methods have also been tried. [thanks, Grace!]

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Earth Observer

This mobile app is great!!! Get it now before they starry charging for it.
Thanks Kurt and Monica for the headsup on this.

http://www.earth-observer.org/

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8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study

Slashdot
December 22, 2010 8:09 PM
by samzenpus

8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study

flintmecha writes "A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns. The paper itself is well worth reading. It's written entirely in the kids' voices, complete with sound effects (part of the Methods section is subtitled, ''the puzzle'duh duh duuuhhh') and figures drawn by hand in colored pencil."

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One-Fourth of DNA Born by 2.8 Billion Years Ago | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dna-life-fossils/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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Acidifying Oceans Could Upset Life’s Nitrogen Cycles | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/ocean-nitrification/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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Huge iPhone display made using 56 iPads

Dear Santa...

MAKE Magazine
December 21, 2010 7:00 AM
by Adam Flaherty

Huge iPhone display made using 56 iPads

For around $30k you, too, could have your very own iPhone display built using 56 iPads. Though comprised of interactive displays, I'd be surprised if the display itself was interactive. Now I'm just curious how many of these it would take to build a ginormous iPod Nano display. [via CrunchGear]

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Visualizing Friendships | Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919&id=9445547199

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View the 2010 Hurricane Season in Google Earth

Great visualization of the 2010 hurricane season...we dodged several bullets.

From Google Earth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/t3MHurirk9Q/view_the_2010_hurricane_season_in_g.html

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NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: INDEX-SATAL 2010: Google Earth Virtual Tour

This expedition was mentioned yesterday during our meeting at Google and they encouraged us to put similar expedition summaries together.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGRKggbIBdI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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OK Go Launches GPS Art Project | Underwire | Wired.com

http://m.wired.com/underwire/2010/12/ok-go-gps-art-project/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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At Google HQ, GWC 1

How to correct your poster on the fly with an iPad

Step 1: create poster
Step 2: discover you have new results to show AFTER poster is printed.
Step 3: hang iPad on poster to show new results

Ok so maybe hanging iPad is a bad idea but you can show it to people on the fly.

Kelly Lake Poster @ AGU

Pavilion Lake poster @ AGU meeting

Here is Jonathan in front of his poster in the novel applications of multibeam session.

Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic

First the toredo snails now this...

Slashdot
December 10, 2010 8:50 AM
by kdawson

Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic

gambit3 writes "A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the Titanic and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 'In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,' said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 'It's deteriorating much faster than that now.'"

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bug

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A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf?

Anothr Noah's flood case?!?!?

Slashdot
December 10, 2010 5:42 PM
by kdawson

A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf?

Phoghat sends news of a new theory that a once-fertile landmass beneath the Persian Gulf may have supported some of the earliest humans outside of Africa. "Perhaps it is no coincidence that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago... These new colonists may have come from the heart of the Gulf, displaced by rising water levels that plunged the once fertile landscape beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean."

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science

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Entire James Burke Connections series streaming free

One of my all time favorite science series...I even own the books that accompany it.  Best glasses of any science host- period.

MAKE Magazine
December 10, 2010 7:30 PM
by Sean Michael Ragan

Entire James Burke Connections series streaming free

If I were going to be a super hero, it would be hard to choose between Carl Sagan Man and James Burke Man. I love this show, and now I can watch it to my heart's content, for free. All three Connections series are available, as well as The Day The Universe Changed. [via adafruit]

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As We May Think | Atlantic Mobile

Well worth a read.

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/

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NOAA - First Underwater Robot to Cross Atlantic Highlighted at Smithsonian Ocean Hall

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20101208_glider.html

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Google Earth Engine, an amazing tool for scientists and researchers, released at COP 16

Hmm could have coastal applications too...

From Google Earth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/xRjGiH5kzCU/google_earth_engine_an_amazing_tool.html

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sea mammals as autonomous oceanography instruments...again.

Again, using tagged sea mammals as Autonomous underwater explorers in polar regions. Very cool.

I vote we convert the lab into a tank for one of these guys.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7550199.stm

~Ashley

NASA Unveils Arsenic Life Form | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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Science Funding for the Little Guys | Magazine

http://m.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/st_sciencekickstart/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables

Slashdot
December 3, 2010 7:01 PM
by timothy

Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables

IamTheRealMike writes "The US State Department has started to warn potential recruits from universities not to read leaked cables, lest it jeopardize their chances of getting a job. They're also showing warnings to troops who access news websites and the Library of Congress and Department of Education have blocked WikiLeaks on their own networks. Quite what happens when these employees go home is an open question." Update: 12/04 17:48 GMT by T : The friendly warning to students specifically cautioned them not to comment online or otherwise indicate that they'd read any of the leaked information; reading them quietly wasn't specifically named as a deal-breaker.

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censorship

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Top 10: Robots doing stuff that scares the &$#! out of me

MAKE Magazine
December 2, 2010 10:30 PM
by Sean Michael Ragan

Top 10: Robots doing stuff that scares the &$#! out of me

In truth, I regard the "robot uprising" meme with about the same level of seriousness as the "zombie apocalypse" meme. I suppose robots becoming sentient, independent, organized, and uncontrollably violent is at least plausible, but on the scale of plausible apocalypses, "robot revolution" is nowhere near the top of the list. More likely, in 100 years, robots will be tending to us like primates in a zoo.

So, in the spirit of fun, here's a collection of videos showing the mad, mad foolishness that roboticists have been up to equipping our future overlords with their tools of power. Or, in a more realistic vein: Look at all the amazing stuff robots can do these days!

#10

Child-stealing swarm-bots

#9

Tentacle-bot

#8

High speed flexpicker sorting-bot

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Sorted bedforms on the inner shelf off northeastern New Zealand

The paper examining the shallow near-surface sedimentologic nature of sorted bedforms from our field study off the Coromandel Peninsula is now available online at Springerlink.

http://www.springerlink.com.proxy.nss.udel.edu/content/7p037661q4115g12/

NASA announcement: Arsenic-based life form discovered on Earth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120204183.html

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Take your own aerial photos with the Swinglet CAM

From Google Earth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/kx9dpZq_wyA/take_your_own_aerial_photos_with_th.html

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NOAA, Spain Announce Cooperative Arrangement to Preserve Maritime Underwater Heritage

NOAA News Releases
December 1, 2010 12:38 PM

NOAA, Spain Announce Cooperative Arrangement to Preserve Maritime Underwater Heritage

NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and Spain's Ministry of Culture announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding outlining a framework to jointly identify, protect, manage and preserve underwater cultural resources of mutual interest within their respective areas of responsibility.

spain, noaa, conservation

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A new communication tool for autonomous underwater vehicles : University of Delaware

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2011/dec/communications-underwater-120110.html

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NASA Funds Nationwide High School Student Robotics Program with $20m

MAKE Magazine
December 1, 2010 11:00 PM
by Phillip Torrone

NASA Funds Nationwide High School Student Robotics Program with $20m

While this news will not hit the radars of folks tuned to Groupon acquisitions and Facebook IPOs - I think this is a really good investment...

NASA is providing up to $20 million over the next five years to support a national program to inspire student interest in science, technology and mathematics with a focus on robotic technology.

The funding is part of a cooperative agreement with the Foundation For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), a nonprofit organization in Manchester, N.H. FIRST provides students the opportunity to engage with government, industry and university experts for hands-on, realistic exposure to engineering and technical professions.

"This is the largest NASA-funded student program geared toward robotics activities," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "For the next five years, approximately 25,000 students across the country will not only learn from our nation's best and brightest, but also compete and have fun at the same time."

My only suggestion is that I'd like to see FIRST adopt open source hardware and public / private wikis - there's a lot of information sharing that could be happening (more) across the country and that too could be share with a larger group outside the world of FIRST. There are some efforts to make this happen that I've seen, so perhaps with this funding we'll see more of it soon!

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Google Earth Adds 3-D Trees

They paved paradise...put of a virtual tree...

Slashdot
November 30, 2010 6:32 PM
by CmdrTaco

Google Earth Adds 3-D Trees

terrancem writes "Google has populated several major cities with more than 80 million virtual trees based on an automated process that identifies trees in satellite images. The realistic 3D representations are based on actual tree species found in urban areas. But Google has also extended realistic tree coverage to rainforests in Africa, Mexico, and the Amazon."

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google

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Active Atlantic Hurricane Season a 'Gentle Giant' for U.S.

Phew...

NOAA News Releases
November 29, 2010 1:19 PM

Active Atlantic Hurricane Season a 'Gentle Giant' for U.S.

With a total of 19 named storms, 12 hurricanes and five major hurricanes, the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the busiest on record - as NOAA forecasters had predicted. Fortunately, nearly all of those storms avoided the U.S. coastline.

hurricane, season

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It's The Age Of "Aquarius" For NASA Astronauts - cbs4.com

http://cbs4.com/local/aquarius.nasa.training.2.2027250.html

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Poster at SERDP/ESTCP Symposium

Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages? - Slashdot

I'm afraid to look...

http://slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/0037244/Which-Shipping-Company-Is-Kindest-To-Your-Packages?from=rss

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Google Offshore Wind – Atlantic Wind Connection Transmission Backbone - Popular Mechanics

They have the location of the DE site in the wrong place but still interesting.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/green-energy/taking-bets-on-8-offshore-wind-projects?click=pm_news

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Maker Birthdays: William Blake

MAKE Magazine
November 28, 2010 6:01 PM
by Gareth Branwyn

Maker Birthdays: William Blake

Most people probably think of William Blake (November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827) as a slightly whack-a-doodle British poet and painter. But he was so much more than that. He was a slightly whack-a-doodle British craftsman, inventor, engraver, printer, and self-publisher, among many other things.

Blake believed that every human being had a "poetic genius" within them, something that was systematically destroyed by the single-minded needs of institutions, such as the State and the Church (think: drones in a hive). He was certainly a living embodiment of what could happen if you fought against some of this institutional indoctrination and unleashed some of that creative potential. Although he was basically laughed at during his lifetime, sold next to nothing of his artistic work, and he and his wife barely ate and kept a roof over their heads, he remained incredibly prolific, literally working until the day he died. He invented a number of new art techniques, such as illuminated printing (a kind of freeform engraving which allowed the artist to paint resist media directly onto copper plates) and a form of fresco painting (a failed experiment in bringing a fresco technique to conventional painting using tempera paints mixed with carpenter's glue).

Blake came of age during an exciting, tumultuous time (see: American and French revolutions) and at a time when an expanding trade-class was on the rise in Britain. Blake was trained as a traditional engraver and was a printer, and throughout his life, he remained very proud of his tradecraft and always saw himself as a tradesman. It was also a time in which art in Britain was expanding beyond the academy and the collections of the wealthy. Artists, such as water colorists, fed up with lack of respect and support for their media, began their own art societies and mounted their own shows. The only show that Blake ever did, in 1809, was a solo one, held in a bedroom above his brother's hosiery shop in Soho (the home in which Blake was born). The fact that he addressed his books and catalogs "To The Public" and "For Public Inspection" was quite a revolutionary gesture at a time in which only the aristocracy was supposed to understand or care about art.

To those who don't spend a lot of time teasing out the deeper meanings in Blake's work, much of it can come off as "distempered" (to quote the only review of his show), apocalyptic, impenetrable, and just plain nutso. He was certainly an intense and complex character who felt an urgency to alert the world to a discovery he thought he'd made: The limitless potential of the human imagination to render the world paradisaical (and the risk that the scientific and industrial revolution might kill a lot of that potential). An overly simplistic and romantic notion perhaps, but certainly a thought, a dream, that remains as relevant today as it did at the turn of the 19th century.

"The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More -- Empire follows Art & Not Vice Versa as Englishmen suppose." -- Wm. Blake

More:
See my article on William Blake from MAKE Volume 17, in the digital edition

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BP Ignored Safety Modeling Software To Save Time - Slashdot

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/27/1248219/BP-Ignored-Safety-Modeling-Software-To-Save-Time?from=rss

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I'd like to be under the sea

Would be fun to go map some of these sites.

MAKE Magazine
November 24, 2010 6:00 PM
by Gareth Branwyn

I'd like to be under the sea

This amazing artwork, by Jason de Caires Taylor, has been making the viral socmedia rounds. Taylor casts life-size cement sculptures of people, animals, furniture, and then submerges them off the coast of South America. Hauntingly beautiful. Imagine scuba diving and coming upon a guy typing at a desk. Awesome. [Thanks, Fran!]

Drowning Beautiful

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