Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, And The Infinite Weirdness Of Programmable Atoms
Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. Supported by organizations ranging from Levi Strauss and IBM to the Defense Department, solid-state physicists in renowned laboratories are working to make it a reality. In this dazzling investigation, Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology, describes how they are learning to control it, and tells us where all this will lead. The possibilities are truly astonishing.
So I “rescued” the image by heroically compositing in a shot taken of the exact
scene earlier, just around sunset. 10.5mm digital fisheye, composite of
foreground (1/125 of a secondat f/8 and ISO 100, photographed just after sunset)
andsky ...
Whether compositing an image with itself or with another image, it is important to
keepcontinuity ofcomposition in mind. An often overlooked point is thatthecolor
values and lighting direction of all parts of a photo composite need to match.
The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s, yet little has been done to halt it. The threat, if we fail, is nothing less than catastrophe - the flooding of coastal communities, the extinction of species and entry into a climate regime of which humans have no experience. Exploring the relationship between what we know and what we refuse to know, Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to Central America, interviewing researchers, environmentalists and traditional Inuits whose lives have already been dramatically altered by climate change.
Exploring the relationship between what we know and what we refuse to know, Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an urgent journey from the Arctic to Central America, interviewing researchers, environmentalists and traditional Inuits whose lives ...
What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: "everything" and "not much." While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics.In this book, Williams Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus is the "concrete universal" of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from the lives of contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Jesus, Jesus' story as a whole exemplifies moral perception, motivation and Christian identity.In addition, Spohn shows how the practices of Christian spirituality--specifically prayer, service, and community--train the imagination and reorient emotions to produce a character and a way of life consonant with Christian New Testament moral teaching.
" While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly ...
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daerah dalam satu kesatuan penyelenggaraan manajemen pegawai negeri sipil
secara nasional. Manajemen pegawai negeri sipil daerah meliputi penetapan ...
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Model-Oriented Design and Analysis Held in Heeze, The Netherlands, June 14-18, 2004
The volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Model-Oriented Design and Analysis which has had the purpose of bringing together leading researchers in Eastern and Western Europe for an in-depth discussion of the optimal design of experiments. The papers are representative of the latest developments concerning non-linear models, computational algorithms and important applications, especially to medical statistics.
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Model-Oriented Design and
Analysis Held in Heeze, The Netherlands, June 14-18, 2004 Alessandro Di
Bucchianico, Henning Läuter, Henry P. Wynn. Preface This volume contains a ...
