Some things I noticed 07/08/2020:
- To induce a lightning strike, researchers fire a rocket dragging a wire into an approaching electrical storm ?
- “Is it possible to communicate six bits of information by the flip of a single coin?“
- “A giant flywheel in north-east Scotland could soon help to prevent blackouts by mimicking the effect of a power station but without using fossil fuels.“
- “cosmologists Karsten Jedamzik and Levon Pogosian argue that weak magnetic fields in the early universe would lead to the faster cosmic expansion rate seen today“
- “the Faraday technique will really take off when the next-generation radio telescope called the Square Kilometer Array, starts up in 2027”
- “Fraunhofer HHI celebrates release of H.266; This new video coding standard reduces data by 50% of bit rate relative to H.265“
- “H.266/VVC was developed with ultra-high-resolution video in mind, new standard is particularly beneficial streaming 4K or 8K”
- “Praise can be trumpeted as evidence that China is respected around the world, while criticism can be used to stoke nationalist defensiveness.“
- “I only see you when you’re walking. Walking to somewhere. You’re so restless. What can be over there? It must be special there.“
- La vie en rose [et elle chante aussi. por supuesto.]
- Superorganism — Live on KEXP
- Origami Folding Door