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stoweboyd: The Tata AirPod is a city car running on compressed...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:29:12 -0400

The Tata AirPod is a city car running on compressed air (as well as a battery-powered electric motor). The ease of converting air into an energy source using simple compressors means charging stations can be placed anywhere, and they require no provisioning — no trucks delivering gas, ethanol, or hydrogen — and they produce no emissions, just discharge of the air.

The AirPod can run 125mi (200k) at a top speed between 28 to 43mph (45 to 70kph). The car is intended for a single rider, and has a small cargo area in the back.

This is breakthrough design: it undercuts most of the negatives of the system it is designed to replace. And unlike other alternatives to traditional cars, it does not require an entire supply chain to exist before becoming practical in a single location. A city like New York could roll out a citywide fleet of AirPods Just like it is rolling out a bike sharing program (although the city’s bike share program has been delayed). It doesn’t need to build nuclear reactors, or deal with some hard-to-transport alternative fuel. In fact, New York City could simply repurpose existing gas stations or parking lots with compressors, and card readers.

Totally awesome. Here’s the future. There Just need to make them stackable, like this:

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What would the ideal web technology start-up team be composed of?

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:53:10 -0400

Guy in the screen : the linchpin
Left to right :

A very very applied mathematician
A server side Brogrammer.
A client side flogrammer.
CXO/co-founder[of course he is facing a whiteboard ;)]
Interaction/user flow designer.

Image credits : Kate nowak

What would the ideal web technology start-up team be composed of?

fakescience: For the next day, Fake Science is answering all...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:02:19 -0400

fakescience:

For the next day, Fake Science is answering all questions about science, Fake Science 101, and the sexiest element on the Periodic Table.

Start asking anything now on Reddit.

The distortion of space-time in relativity theory is a form of representation (interpretation) of our observation or really exist space and

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:21:19 -0400

Time is the degree of variation between NOW and a second point in space.

Time = ((pi)2r/360)({-+}L) -+ ((pi)2r/360)D
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pi2r = is the average Latitudinal circumference of the observered points calculated at an average Altitudinal position of the planet/object it resides upon.
L = is the total Longitudinal degrees to the shortest distance between   the current (NOW) starting position to the destination, which never   exceeds 180. (if you count over 180 stop, repeat step and reverse the counting direction of the longitude from the starting point.)
{+} = L moves with the gravitation rotation up to 180 degrees   Longitudinal from the starting position
{-} = L moves against the gravitation rotation up to 180 degrees   Longitudinal from the starting position
+ = Future
- = Past
D = is our current understanding of time expressed in degrees (1 day = 360 Degrees)
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The circumference is a combination of Altitude and Latitude… The Altitude adjusts the restrictive/varying properties of Latitude.

L account for Longitudinal change

D is the motion
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Time is the degree of variation between NOW and a second point in space.

Space is 3D representation of Time. Altitude, Longitude, Latitude and is restricted by position.

Time is 3D representation of Space. Altitude, Longitude and is restricted by motion.

Both provide the exact same information through different   visual representation… EXAMPLE: Pie graph vs line graph….

NOT COMPOUNDED!!!!!!

The distortion of space-time in relativity theory is a form of representation (interpretation) of our observation or really exist space and time just as physics elements?

Real Love in New India #story-idea #indiblogger

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:42:01 -0400

Real Love in New India #story-idea #indiblogger:

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Simply Statistics: Statistics/statisticians need better marketing

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:37:01 -0400

Simply Statistics: Statistics/statisticians need better marketing:

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Statisticians have not always been great self-promoters. I think in part this comes from our tendency to be arbiters rather than being involved in the scientific process. In some ways, I think this is a good thing. Self-promotion can quickly become really annoying. On the other hand, I think…

filling vs feeling the mind

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:24:13 -0400

filling vs feeling the mind:

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Simply Statistics: Statistics/statisticians need better marketing

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:47:02 -0400

Simply Statistics: Statistics/statisticians need better marketing:

simplystatistics:

Statisticians have not always been great self-promoters. I think in part this comes from our tendency to be arbiters rather than being involved in the scientific process. In some ways, I think this is a good thing. Self-promotion can quickly become really annoying. On the other hand, I think…

11 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:27:01 -0400

11 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent:

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Seigneur-terraces (French)
Coffee shop dwellers who sit at tables a long time but spend little money.

Ya’arburnee (Arabic)
This word is the hopeful declaration that you will die before someone you love deeply, because you cannot stand to live without them. Literally, may you bury me.

Schlimazel (Yiddish)
Someone prone to bad luck. Yiddish distinguishes between the schlemiel and schlimazel, whose fates would probably be grouped under those of the klutz in other languages. The schlemiel is the traditional maladroit, who spills his coffee; the schlimazel is the one on whom it’s spilled.

Packesel (German)
The packesel is the person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip. Literally, a burro.

L’esprit de l’escalier (French)
Literally, stairwell wit—a too-late retort thought of only after departure.

Hygge (Danish)
Denmark’s mantra, hygge is the pleasant, genial, and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire in the winter with close friends.

Spesenritter (German)
Literally, an expense knight. You’ve probably dined with a spesenritter before, the type who shows off by paying the bill on the company’s expense account.

Cavoli Riscaldati (Italian)
The result of attempting to revive an unworkable relationship. Literally, reheated cabbage.

Bilita Mpash (Bantu)
An amazing, pleasant dream. Not just a “good” dream; the opposite of a nightmare.

Litost (Czech)
Milan Kundera described the emotion as “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.”

Murr-ma (Waigman, language of Australia)
To walk alongside the water while searching for something with your feet.

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