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2013-05-19 02:56:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

" The best possible spin on this is that the government was concerned that we would miss the snow now that it’s gone, and was giving Canadians something else to shovel all summer long. "

A little background. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy_of_the_Harper_government#Senate_reform

2013-05-19 02:36:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Only in Canader eh?

Fresh from the Canadian Mint: A $90,000 'Duffy buck'
 Deep Rogue Ram·  
Published on May 18, 2013
If you liked the design for the $20 and $50 bill, you'll love the look and feel of the all-new $90,000 bill. Featuring financial wunderkind Mike Duffy, important security safeguards and almost no ethics whatsoever.

2013-05-19 02:15:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-18 16:18:43 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-05-18 16:15:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Via; +George Takei 

2013-05-18 14:42:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Good #squirrelsaturday  morning.
+Squirrel Saturday with +Skippy Sheeskin & +Beth Blackwell 
I share again this little chipmunk from the Riverwood Conservancy with his cheek pouches full of sunflower seeds.

2013-05-18 03:24:23 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fantastic talk with Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins.

2013-05-18 02:59:47 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Of interest to WWW historians, The first World Wide Web server underwent some maintenance and they took photos.

" In August 2009 a team from the Association aBCM in Lausanne came to CERN to give the world's first web server a health check under the watchful eye of web pioneer Robert Cailliau. They took an image of the hard drive at this time, copies of which were given to Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee."

The rest of the photos are here;
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1547556

And a little background here;
http://info.cern.ch/

© Copyright CERN 2013

2013-05-17 22:41:47 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via Dr. Adriana Caselotti
( not the one who sang for Snow White)

"  But also, an additional UPS system will be added to each zone. This third UPS system will act as a backup for the two UPS systems on the front line."

2013-05-17 01:05:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

For those folks like +Trey Ratcliff who are big fans of the new compact mirrorless cameras like the NEX-7 this looks interesting 
Carl Zeiss Camera Lenses Touit 2.8/12

http://lenses.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_de/camera_lenses/touit/touit2812.html
and
http://sonyalphanex.blogspot.ca/

Not likely to be for those on a budget though.

2013-05-16 15:14:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Join our #HangoutWithCERN featuring TED-Ed animators, starting in a few minutes here:
Hangout with CERN and TED-Ed - Dimensions Multiplied

For more details see: http://plus.google.com/events/c6siviut81len830gkosiv5uo4c

Got a question? Post it in the YouTube comments of Hangout with CERN and TED-Ed - Dimensions Multiplied

2013-05-16 14:20:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

+Chris Hadfield  Press conf already started.

2013-05-16 12:11:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

*Welcome to #AutoEnhance  & #AutoAwesome *

Earlier today at Google I/O, +Vic Gundotra announced #AutoEnhance  and #AutoAwesome  - two new features to help make sharing your photos more fun and more creative. To help you become more familiar with these tools, here’s a brief Q&A along with some sample images to enjoy. 

Can you give me some more details on how Google+ will enhance my  photos?
Sure! Auto Enhance analyzes your photos as you upload them, then optimizes brightness, contrast, details, noise, focus, and many other factors in order to help them really shine. Just click on the Enhanced hover button on newly uploaded photos to see the results. You can also manually turn on Auto Enhance on older images by clicking on ‘More’ and select ‘Auto Enhance’.

Will the Auto Enhanced version overwrite my original photos?
No.We will never o... more »

2013-05-16 11:16:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Had to try to U/L a photo to the new G+. 
I still don't see where they hid the manual enhance controls.
Ah it's called Edit, never mind. But they still haven't fixed the highlights and shadows sliders to start in the middle to let you either increase or decrease those parameters as it is done in Lightroom, which I like.
Also the photo name seems to be gone from photo details.

A Brace of Ducks.

Do you come here often?

2013-05-15 23:45:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Well, this is New Goggle plus is going to take some getting used to.
Change is hard.

2013-05-19 03:04:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#space  
" So in a weak moment I gave in and will be appearing Thursday morning as a witness before the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee. What have I gotten myself into?"

http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=93f78807-737f-4354-9141-e5d728c0ecfe&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=a06730c4-d875-4fde-97db-9e2be611840e

Wayne starts at about the 55:28 mark.

2013-05-14 18:24:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Be still my beating heart.
This is sort of like "everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it". 
If it actually results in convictions in less than a decade I'll be surprised / delighted. One things Oil companies have plenty of it's lawyers and money.

2013-05-14 00:32:03 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Are we doing it wrong?

2013-05-13 16:58:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

" The undocking of the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft set for 7:08 p.m. EDT Monday will officially mark the end of Expedition 35 and the start of Expedition 36. Hadfield, Marshburn and Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko are scheduled for a 10:31 p.m. landing in southern Kazakhstan, wrapping up 146 days in space for the trio. "

2013-05-13 11:02:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Evan Hadfield will be on Metro Morning CBC( Toronto) radio in a few minutes. (7:20 AM)

2013-05-13 00:40:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

#sciencesunday   #scienceeveryday  

" TheScienceFoundation·
   
Uploaded on Jan 14, 2011

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

In this candid interview Feynman touches on a wide array of topics from the beauty of nature to particle physics. He explains things that are hard to grasp in layman's terms much like Carl Sagan did in the cosmos series. His explanation of the scientific method covers what we know, why we know it and most importantly, what we don't know and the pleasure of figuring it out.

Professor SirHarr... more »

2013-05-12 22:35:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Got Rhythm?

2013-05-12 15:06:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Chris Hadfield +Evan Hadfield 

#ThankYouCommanderHadfield  

2013-05-12 04:04:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-10 22:17:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Franti Friday is LIVE!! Y'all were asking how to play "I'm Alive" on Twitter, so here it is. Enjoy! 

2013-05-07 14:25:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-07 14:21:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

" The talk was presented at the 2013 ROOT Users' Meeting and followed a talk, earlier in the day, on "Mathematica with ROOT"."

2013-05-07 11:02:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via +Tom Whyntie 

" Recently, the physicists at CERN and the animators at TED-Ed teamed up to combine what they do best (complex particle physics) with what we do best (animations that illuminate tough concepts). The results were broadcast on Friday at TEDxCERN, between incredible talks ranging from women in science to consciousness to grid computing, attendees watched animations on everything from the origins of the universe to the mystery of anti-matter."

2013-05-07 02:29:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Well golly gosh gee wilikers I had just a super day off today.
Started off going to Service Ontario and getting my drivers licence and medical card renewed in less than 20 minutes.  
Then went over to the Riverwood Conservancy to shoot a few photos. Saw some purdy flaurs and a Chipmunk and a cool old wagon. The highlight was walking up the stairs to go on the Burnhamthorpe bridge I saw this huge Bird of Prey sitting in a tree. I slowly approached and it didn't seem to care and appeared to be in a mood to model so I took a bunch of shots of it. Red Tailed Hawk I think, any Ornithologists care to correct me feel free.
 Then I went to see Iron Man 3, pretty awesome.
Then I shot some of the Mississauga skyline around Square One.
 Then went for my walk around the 'hood, Great day for it. Shot some Squirrels and Ducks.
Then, for no particular reason I took a picture of thecr... more »

2013-05-06 02:12:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Light on the Jetty

2013-05-06 01:49:48 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

#sciencesunday   #scienceeveryday   #scienceisawesome  

2013-05-05 16:43:06 (50 comments, 195 reshares, 526 +1s)

Feliz Cinco de Mayo
The Revenge of the Fifth
Where Napoleon gets his butt kicked by Mexican Jedi.

Photo: http://lovefromfanlandia.com/2012/05/05/revenge-of-the-fifth/

2013-05-05 00:35:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New research proves that America's first colonists were cannibals. Americans could so easily have ended up with the constitutional right to eat people. Crumb my cold, dead hands...My column this week. Love T xo

2013-05-05 00:03:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The winger's War on Science is nothing new. I ran across this while browsing the CERN CDS http://cds.cern.ch/record/1544973?ln=en


" From the moment of Einstein's arrival in the U.S. in l933 until his death in l955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, with help from several other federal agencies, busied itself collecting "derogatory information" in an effort to undermine Einstein's influence and destroy his prestige. For the first time Fred Jerome tells the story of that anti-Einstein campaign, as well as the story behind it--why and how the campaign originated, and thereby provides the first detailed picture of Einstein's little known political activism. Unlike the popular image of Einstein as an absent-minded, head-in-the-clouds genius, the man was in fact intensely politically active and felt it was his duty to use his world-wide fame shrewdly in the cause ofs... more »

2013-05-04 17:40:45 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

You've seen all the crazy driving stuff, insurance scamers and scary meteoroids recorded on Russian dash cams, now for the positive side.

Via:@RealRonHoward

Positive compilation of Russian dash cams(Video by ArkadiYM93)
 simplyguys· 
Published on May 3, 2013
Tired of all the brutal dash cam videos? 
Here are positive for a change.
Stay safe !!!!
("Arrival of the Birds / Exodus (From "The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos")", composition musicale administré par : 0:15 
One or more music publishing rights collecting societies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEiA...
Category
Education

2013-05-04 03:09:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

On a lighter note.

2013-05-04 02:51:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times  actually not a Chinese curse apparently. 

2013-05-03 12:04:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's on people.

+TEDx +CERN 

http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/5875

2013-05-02 23:22:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk
F9R (pronounced F-niner) shows a little leg. Design is a nested, telescoping piston w A frame. 
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/330053450261987328

Giacomo Balli ‏@BigBalli 
@elonmusk is it hydraulic?

 Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk 
@BigBalli High pressure helium. Needs to be ultra light. All 4 legs together (~60 ft span) weigh less than Model S.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/330054002148515841

2013-05-02 14:19:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you're in Ottawa and in the neighborhood of the Canadian Air and Space Museum they're about to unveil the Exhibit for Canada's National Space Icon - Canadarm

Otherwise watch on +Canadian Space Agency U-Stream below.
http://aviation.technomuses.ca/

2013-05-02 16:33:42 (1 comments, 14 reshares, 8 +1s)

Laboring in the caverns of science.

A worker at +CERN  in the LHC tunnel performing one of the many procedures that are part of a splice consolidation.

Some detail on the magnitude of the operation here: https://mediastream.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2013/1302027/1302027_01/1302027_01-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

and more photo's in this series here: http://cds.cern.ch/record/1544909#

Photo by : Anna Pantelia  All rights reserved by the photographer and CERN.

2013-05-01 02:24:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

From the Milken Institute 2013 Global  conference

Monday, April 29, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Dinner Program - To Infinity and Beyond: Jeff Skoll Talks with Elon and Kimbal Musk

Speakers:

Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX; CEO and Product Architect, Tesla Motors

Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder, The Kitchen Community
Interviewer:

Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman, Participant Media; Founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation

I did not know that Elon's Brother Kimbal started these restaurants in Colorado.
http://thekitchencommunity.com/

And good show to the +Milken Institute  for getting the video up so quickly.
See more from the conference here;
http://www.globalconference.org/

2013-04-30 16:37:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-30 15:26:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Congratulations to +Mike Brown for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences!

" News from the National Academy of Sciences
Date: April 30, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected
The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,179 and the total number of foreign associates to 437. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are: 

.....
Brown, Michael E.; Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor, division of geological and planetarys... more »

2013-04-30 11:12:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Coming in one week. SHARE if you can't wait.

2013-04-29 23:31:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

For #LHC  geeks a video made in 2010, but i just discovered it.
Titled " LHC operations "
+myLHCLite may find this interesting. A shame I didn't find it a few years ago while the machine was running. ;) Only a few years to wait till it's running again.
You can see most of the displays mentioned in the video, inactive now of course,  at http://meltronx.com/index.html along with links to various +CERN hangouts and Cam views.

2013-04-29 22:39:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Mysterious Hurricane at Saturn's North Pole
 JPLnews    
Published on Apr 29, 2013
Narrated video about a hurricane-like storm seen at Saturn's north pole by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

2013-04-29 18:56:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

" This image was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, and shows us this galaxy in sharper detail than we have ever seen it. Check back here every Monday for another image and another story from the Dark Detectives at DES."

http://darkenergydetectives.org/

2013-04-29 16:28:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-29 16:11:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Today saw a major step forward for commercial space: