The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several [...]
GSL Shell is an interactive interface that gives access to the GSL numerical routines by using Lua, an easy to learn and powerful programming language. With GSL Shell you can access very easily the functions provided by the GSL library without the need of writing and compile a stand-alone C application. In addition the power [...]
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one of the most ambitious and influential surveys in the history of astronomy. Over eight years of operations (SDSS-I, 2000-2005; SDSS-II, 2005-2008), it obtained deep, multi-color images covering more than a quarter of the sky and created 3-dimensional maps containing more than 930,000 galaxies and more than 120,000 [...]
Bastyr University is a non-profit, private university offering both graduate and undergraduate degrees, with a multidisciplinary curriculum in science-based natural medicine. The University is recognized globally for its rigorous curriculum and strong research. Bastyr’s international faculty teaches the natural health sciences with an emphasis on integrating mind, body, spirit and nature. A pioneer in natural [...]
Imagine that you’ve learned a new language that allows you to see things in a way that you’ve never before been able to conceive. Imagine the new kinds of questions that you can now ask which you could not before! It is an amazing feeling. Mathematics is invigorating, inspiring, and fun.
IHI [Ifakara Health Institute] is an autonomous, non-for-profit organization registered in Tanzania dealing with health research. The mission of IHI is “to develop and sustain a district-based health research and resource centre capable of generating new knowledge and relevant information for public health policy and actions”.
I heard this joke a long time ago and somehow it never gets old, especially when the person telling the joke turns things around a bit. His recipe is a classic; his sense of humor is hard to resist: (image found via Neven)