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gippgig

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Sep 6, 2015, 10:50:38 PM9/6/15
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Major advance in photon detection: Cycling excitation process: An ultra efficient and quiet signal amplification mechanism in semiconductor
Applied Physics Letters 107 053505 doi: 10.1063/1.4928369

The Trouble with Wearables
Nature (available in almost any college library) Vol.525 issue 7567 (Sept. 3) p. 22

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Sep 7, 2015, 2:31:04 PM9/7/15
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Ethan Waldo

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Sep 7, 2015, 5:34:03 PM9/7/15
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Good science articles mention which peer group is going to replicate the experiment.  I have to wonder if they're accounting for all energy appropriately.

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Sep 7, 2015, 8:24:50 PM9/7/15
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As a materials scientist: the only problem here is the use of hype,
mainly by journalists, to make this more exciting than it is. This is a
metamaterial 'hose' that contains and hides a magnetic field that's
coming in at one end and out the other. It has nothing to do with the
concept of a wormhole that warps spacetime or enables faster-than-light
travel or communication, despite how journalists try to convolute the
two 'wormhole' concepts to increase click counts. It's pretty neat in
its own right but not in ways that excite journalists or most people:
better MRIs, better HDD read heads, maybe someday a new type of data
transfer bus that's magnetic instead of electric or optical.

The peer-reviewed article is open-access on Nature Scientific Reports:

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12488

The second link (using the human body as some kind of magnetic yoke for
ultra-low power short-ragne magnetic data transfer) seems believable
too.. I didn't think we were very magnetic at all but I haven't read the
paper.

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pste...@gwi.net

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Feb 8, 2016, 11:55:30 PM2/8/16
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Neat link, Bobby.  Interesting article!

I haven't kept up with it, but there have been a lot of ideas out there about how the temporal lobe (terminus of the ventral visual stream for one thing) represents the properties of objects.  Hope to make time to read the article soon!

 

Phil

 

 

 

 

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Feb 9, 2016, 12:05:49 AM2/9/16
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Also neat:  The article puts the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness of Gerald Edelman & Giulio Tononi to work!  I'm quite sympathetic to this approach to theorizing consciousness.  (. . .  thinks back to his first pass through a chapter on mutual information, and what developed from that in his own notes, coming from a different perspective . . . ) 

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nancy lessons

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I see....

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Bobby Baum

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Dec 26, 2016, 3:24:17 AM12/26/16
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www.terradaily.com/reports/New_Technology_Could_Help_Track_Firefighters_for_Safety_999.html

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Jan 19, 2017, 5:38:02 PM1/19/17
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Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information
PLoS Biology 15.1 e2001402
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001402
Can the medical tricorder be far behind?

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Jan 19, 2017, 5:55:28 PM1/19/17
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Bobby Baum

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Jan 25, 2017, 7:57:50 PM1/25/17
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www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_new_invisibility_cloak_to_conceal_objects_in_diffusive_atmospheres_is_devised_999.html

Bobby Baum

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Feb 1, 2017, 6:46:52 PM2/1/17
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www.terradaily.com/reports/Brain_computer_interface_allows_completely_locked_in_people_to_communicate_999.html

Bobby Baum

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Feb 1, 2017, 8:34:27 PM2/1/17
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Also see sciencebasedmedicine.org/communicating-with-the-locked-in-update/

Bobby Baum

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Mar 9, 2017, 12:21:10 AM3/9/17
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blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/03/08/gene-therapy-needs-machines

Bobby Baum

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Jun 28, 2017, 2:23:52 PM6/28/17
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www.terradaily.com/reports/Beyond_bananas_Mind_reading_technology_decodes_complex_thoughts_999.html

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Zachary Huberty

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Oct 1, 2018, 1:58:01 PM10/1/18
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There is a typo in your last link on the word "temprerature".  Here is the correct link: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/cooling-paint-drops-temperature-any-surface

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Nov 24, 2018, 12:54:11 AM11/24/18
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Zachary Huberty

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Nov 24, 2018, 8:28:34 PM11/24/18
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I think that link may be incorrect - I went there and received a "404 not found".  I did however find https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/airplane-no-moving-parts-takes-flight



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Bobby Baum

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Nov 27, 2018, 2:26:57 AM11/27/18
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Guess I got confused. That's the right story.

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Nov 27, 2018, 6:27:58 PM11/27/18
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Circumventing Magnetostatic Reciprocity: A Diode for Magnetic fields
Physical Review Letters 121 213903 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.213903

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Nov 27, 2018, 6:44:48 PM11/27/18
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Optimal Noise-Canceling Networks
Physical Review Letters 121 208301 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.208301

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Dec 4, 2018, 9:01:57 PM12/4/18
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Another step towards the tricorder:
Should HacDC get one?

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Dec 28, 2018, 3:12:16 AM12/28/18
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High-speed transport of liquid droplets in magnetic tubular microactuators
Science Advances 4 eaau8767 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau8767
Designing self-propelled, chemically active sheets: Wrappers, flappers, and creepers
Science Advances 4 eaav1745 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav1745

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Jan 8, 2019, 4:11:52 PM1/8/19
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Worth reading: Upon the Shoulders of Giants: Open-Source Hardware and Software in Analytical Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry Vol. 89 p. 4330 doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00485

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Jan 11, 2019, 5:46:38 PM1/11/19
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How much can we influence the rate of innovation?
Science Advances 5 eaat6107 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat6107

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Jan 28, 2019, 9:23:59 PM1/28/19
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Frontiers of Engineering   Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2018 Symposium
www.nap.edu/catalog/25333/frontiers-of-engineering-reports-on-leading-edge-engineering-from-the
(no, part of that isn't missing)

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Feb 4, 2019, 11:01:08 PM2/4/19
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Seeing around a corner with an ordinary digital camera
Nature 565 472 (also see 435) doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0868-6

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Damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure
Nature Vol. 565 p. 305 (also see 303) doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0850-3

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Feb 16, 2019, 2:05:05 AM2/16/19
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Physicists create a quantum refrigerator that cools with an absense of light
www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/physicists-create-quantum-refrigerator-cools-absense-light

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