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TwitterEver wonder what the world really looks like through someone else’s eyes? Representations of the planet have changed with the times as have the people who made them. These are just a few strange, innovative and/or humorous examples past, present and future.Cartograms such as those above are a way to represent statistical information in visual form, expanding and contracting areas of a typical map to show various kinds of information and a readily understandable format.
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Seven Offbeat Approaches to Mapping the World (Past, Present and Future)
May 11th, 2009 
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Tags: Antique Maps, Economic Activity, Energy Production, Finding A Date, Glass Cases, Great Exhibition, Humorous Examples, Male Singles, Map Of The World, Mapping The World, Political Affiliations, Production Potential, Relative Abundance, Relative Proportions, Resource Distribution, Star Trek, There Have Been Many Attempts, Understandable Format, Wikipedia, World Maps 
Comments OffMyWeb Search, One Click Meta Search Engine
March 28th, 2009 admin I stumbled upon this simple meta search engine ‘MyWebSearch‘, well, not quite a meta search engine but almost close to what I always wanted – one click search it all engine. I wanted to know more about this unique search engine and a search in Wikipedia says this: MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar, is a spyware and search toolbar program that allows the user to query Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo!, and LookSmart search engines.
Posted in News Tags: Dell, Engine Search, Google, Hp, Looksmart Search, Meta Engine, Meta Search Engine, Myway, Myweb, Mywebsearch, Search Assistant, Search Engines, Speedbar, Spyware Program, Toolbar Program, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Yahoo Search Comments OffDoomed: Why Wikipedia Will Fail
February 16th, 2009 admin From Ars Technica:A cyberlaw professor argues that Wikipedia is doomed. The online encyclopedia will need to choose between being “high quality” and “open,” but both choices are fraught with risk.Law professor Eric Goldman loves Wikipedia, but he’s also convinced that the site contains the “seeds of its own destruction.” In other words, not to put too fine a point upon it, Wikipedia will fail.Goldman made his provocative point at the Silicon Flatirons conference this weekend in Boulder, Colorado, standing at a heavy wooden podium in a multiuse room that had been donated to the University of Colorado by a graduating class back in the 1960s. Those students could not have foreseen Wikipedia at the time, but by 2008, everyone gathered in that room—from corporate vice presidents to think tank bosses to academics—had made use of the collaborative online encyclopedia.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: 1960s, Academics, Ars Technica, Boulder Colorado, Choices, Flatirons, Fraught With Risk, Goldman, Graduating Class, High Quality, Law Professor, Multiuse Room, Online Encyclopedia, Podium, Professor Eric, Seeds, Silicon, University Of Colorado, Vice Presidents, Wikipedia Comments OffScientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond
February 14th, 2009 admin Photo: A diamond ring. Scientists have calculated that wurtzite boron nitride and lonsdaleite (hexagonal diamond) both have greater indentation strengths than diamond. Source: English Wikipedia.(PhysOrg.com) — Currently, diamond is regarded to be the hardest known material in the world. But by considering large compressive pressures under indenters, scientists have calculated that a material called wurtzite boron nitride (w-BN) has a greater indentation strength than diamond.
Posted in Science News Tags: Bn, Boron Nitride, Diamond Ring, Diamond Setting, Diamond Source, English Wikipedia, Harder Than Diamond, Hexagonal Diamond, Indentation, Jiao Tong University, Loading Conditions, Nevada Las Vegas, Physical Review Letters, Physorg, Scientists, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University Of Nevada, University Of Nevada Las Vegas, Wikipedia Comments OffScientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond
February 14th, 2009 admin Photo: A diamond ring. Scientists have calculated that wurtzite boron nitride and lonsdaleite (hexagonal diamond) both have greater indentation strengths than diamond. Source: English Wikipedia.(PhysOrg.com) — Currently, diamond is regarded to be the hardest known material in the world. But by considering large compressive pressures under indenters, scientists have calculated that a material called wurtzite boron nitride (w-BN) has a greater indentation strength than diamond.
Posted in Science News Tags: Bn, Boron Nitride, Diamond Ring, Diamond Setting, Diamond Source, English Wikipedia, Harder Than Diamond, Hexagonal Diamond, Indentation, Jiao Tong University, Loading Conditions, Nevada Las Vegas, Physical Review Letters, Physorg, Scientists, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University Of Nevada, University Of Nevada Las Vegas, Wikipedia Comments OffBritannica 2.0 Shows Wikipedia How It’s Done
February 6th, 2009 admin From Times Online:The 240-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica has taken a giant leap into the world of Web 2.0 with the launch of a new online version where users can contribute and edit content.In a move that takes it head to head with Wikipedia, new features on the Britannica site will allow users to edit and contribute articles in return for the glory of having their name attached to the submission.However, “voyeuristic” Wikipedia fans ought not to get too excited by the changes as all submissions will undergo a strict vetting process and may or may not make the cut, according to Britannica ’s president, Jorge Cauz.“We’re not trying to be a wiki – that’s the last thing we want to be,” Mr Cauz told The Times.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Fans, Giant Leap, Launch, New Features, Submission, Submissions, Vetting Process, Wiki, Wikipedia Comments OffHow Ancient Greeks Chose Temple Locations
February 1st, 2009 admin The ancient Greek Temple of Hera in Selinunte, also knowns as “temple E”,at Castelvetrano, in Sicily, Italy. Image from WikipediaFrom Live Science:To honor their gods and goddesses, ancient Greeks often poured blood or wine on the ground as offerings. Now a new study suggests that the soil itself might have had a prominent role in Greek worship, strongly influencing which deities were venerated where.In a survey of eighty-four Greek temples of the Classical period (480 to 338 B.C.), Gregory J.
Posted in Science News Tags: Ancient Greek Temple, Ancient Greeks, Castelvetrano, Classical Period, Deities, Deity, Eighty Four, Greek Temples, Herodotus, Live Science, Local Geology, Plato, Retallack, Selinunte, Sicily Italy, Temple Of Hera, Topography, University Of Oregon, Vegetation, Wikipedia Comments OffAstronomers Get A Sizzling Weather Report From A Distant Planet
January 28th, 2009 admin Photo from Spitzer Space Telescope (Wikipedia)From E! Science News:Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star, providing important clues to the atmospheric properties of the planet. The observations enabled astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to generate realistic images of the planet by feeding the data into computer simulations of the planet’s atmosphere.
Posted in Science News Tags: Astronomy And Astrophysics, Atmospheric Properties, California Santa Cruz, Computer Simulations, Degrees Fahrenheit, Distant Planet, Infrared Measurements, Laughlin, Nasa, Parent Star, Realistic Images, Realistic Simulations, Science News, Six Hours, Spitzer Space Telescope, Ucsc, University Of California, University Of California Santa Cruz, Weather Report, Wikipedia Comments Off