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326. House market bubble: brief update
As usual on Sundays, science will be temporarily forgotten, because I would like to share many other things with you. This Sunday I am going to talk about again only global financial crisis.
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325. Scientist’s gadgets: desktop software
Desktop software? What is this supposed to mean? – you may ask.
Well 
if you are a fellow scientist – theoretician, to be more precise – you know very well how much time we usually spend in front of our computers. Once upon a time I have tried to make a personal estimation in my particular case and found something like 14 hours including work and various useless crap like reading SPAM. This is ridiculous. It is in our very best interests to maximally optimize this time spent in front of a computer, so that we don’t repetitively deal with meaningless tasks, finish meaningful work as early as possible and enjoy the company of our wives/girlfriends (as well as other family members ).
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324. Video of the day: nice visualizations of elementary particles
Happy early Saturday, science geeks! Here is a little gift for you which will hopefully help you to sleep better (that’s what I am going to do now ) – nice visualizations of elementary particles It is not like they have anything to do with reality, but I liked the idea very much. The set includes: W-boson, some leptons, up quark, gluons and even graviton! All explanations are given by Dr. Manhattan himself.
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322. Video of the day: “Boston Dynamics”
I think it is worth posting about… I’ve noticed the BigDog project (by Boston Dynamics) about a year ago. It seems that their robot is now good enough for U.S. military to use it in Afghanistan.
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320. Video of the day: STS-119
Here I’ve collected some videos by NASA related to the recent somewhat problematic Space Shuttle mission STS-119. The mission’s goal is to the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station, you will find complete walkthrough of the mission below.
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