Topographic Sculpture of Kansas
My friend Dan, who helped me build the light pipe prototype, recently got a CNC mill. He’s been asking me if there’s anything I want to make with it, and now I think I have an idea. My in-laws live … Continue reading
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Space Walk set to Twisted Nerve
I re-edited some NASA video from STS-128 and set it to Twisted Nerve by Bernard Herrmann:
Recent Stories: Cyborgs, Solar, and Data Storage
This post is a roundup of the stories I’ve written over the past few weeks. Without doing it consciously, I’ve totally carved out a cyborg beat. The most recent story is about a neural implant that is wirelessly controlled and … Continue reading
Posted in science, technology, writing
Tagged data storage, HCI, Intel, memory, Microsoft, neural implants, NIST, photonics, plasmons, quantum computing, RICE, sensors, solar cells, Technology Review, The Economist, University of Washington, wireless, writing
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Superconductor Levitation
This one’s from the e-vaults. I spent my first year of grad school making up undergraduate physics classes because I came in with a chemistry degree. One of those requirements was a laboratory class where we did things like measure … Continue reading
Posted in physics, science
Tagged levitation, liquid nitrogen, magnet, Meissner effect, physics, superconducting levitation, superconductor
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Exaflops on Beams of Light
A colleague of mine, Katie Bourzac, has written a post about the future of supercomputing according to IBM. Yes, the future is light. Essentially, the only way to find enough bandwidth to transport all the data required for future supercomputers … Continue reading
Posted in lasers, physics, science, technology
Tagged exaflops, IBM, Intel, petaflops, silicon, silicon photonics, supercomputers
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