Join: Aug 6, 2007
Name: stevebd1
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Books: Iain M banks Culture novels ('Consider Phlebas' a personal favourite), science ('Black Holes, Wormholes & Time Machines' by Jim Al-Khalili, 'The Magic Furnace' by Marcus Chown, 'Parallel Worlds' by Michio Kaku, 'The Extravagant Universe' by Robert Kirshner). Previous recommendations include- 'Chaos' by James Gleick, 'E=mc2' by David Bodanis, 'The Search For El Dorado' by John Hemming, 'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat' by John Gribbin. Reference- 'Nature's Building Blocks' by John Emsley, 'Particle Astrophysics' by Donald Perkins, 'Fusion: Energy of the Universe' by Garry McCracken and Peter Stott. Currently reading 'In Search of Superstrings' by John Gribbin.
Various lectures/interviews- (Remove Spaces) 'Tick, Tick Pulsating Star: How we wonder what you are', supernovae, neutron stars and pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Open University 1997-http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/69 'Atoms to X-rays: The Mystery of Empty Space: Higgs Bosons, Vacuum Energy and Extra Dimensions', UCSD physicist Kim Griest, May 23th 2001- http://www.ucsd.tv/library-test.asp?showID=5551 Dr. Kim Griest discusses dark matter and dark energy with Dr. David Lemberg/Sam Kephart on Science & Society radio, April 19th 2006- http://www.scienceandsociety.net/podcasts/archives/2006/04/dr_kim_griest_p.html 'The Hunt for WIMPs', Fermilab Long Range Planning sessions Dan Bauer, Oct 14th 2003-http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/LongRangePlanning/031014Bauer/ 'Supernova, dark energy and the expanding universe- what's next?', Fermilab Colloquium Lectures S. Perlmutter, May 30th 2001- http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_02/Lectures/colloquium/Perlmutter/ Various websites- (Remove Spaces) 'What Will the LHC find?' by Sean Carroll- http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/08/04/what-will-the-lhc-find/ 'Cosmic Anarchists', Hazel Muir investigates the wild world of Q-balls- http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko/new_sci_qballs.html 'Black Holes FAQ', a list by Ted Bunn- http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html 'Ripples at the Heart of Physics', the Higgs mechanism by Simon hands, Cern- http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy400w/particle/higgs5.htmVideos (583)
M81 and Macs J0025.4-1222
- Length: 2:57
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 11 people
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- Author: stevebd1
2 short videos from the Chandra website. Source- http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/podcasts/sd.html 0:00 M81 21-08-08 'This image of the mammoth spiral galaxy M81, located about 12 million light years away, contains data from four different NASA satellites.' 1:07 Macs J0025.4-1222 04-09-08...
Mars Rover Flight Director Report 5th Sept 08
- Length: 2:13
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 10 people
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- Author: stevebd1
Tags: Mars
Source- http://www-a.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/
CERN- Interview with John Ellis - Theoretical physicist
- Length: 4:55
- Rating Average: 4.80 from 15 people
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- Author: stevebd1
Tags: CERN collider hadron large LHC particle physics
A couple of other questions regarding the LHC answered by John Ellis. Date- 20th Aug 08. Source- http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Video%20Movies Q. 1. Could you tell us your opinion about safety at the LHC? Q. 2. Could the 'BEAM' itself become a threat when it collides or if it goes off course?
Rosetta: rendezvous with an asteroid
- Length: 4:17
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 16 people
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- Author: stevebd1
Tags: asteroid
A video by ESA regarding the Rosetta probe's encounter with the asteroid Steins. Date- 20th Aug 08. Source- http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmghome.pl 'Asteroid Steins belongs to the rare, largely unknown intermediate E-class, very bright and probably with a much-weathered surface. Steins' orbit was...
CERN- Interview with Alvaro de Rujula- Theoretical Physicist
- Length: 8:28
- Rating Average: 4.82 from 28 people
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- Author: stevebd1
Tags: CERN
A video by CERN, interview with theoretical physicist, Alvaro de Rujula. Date- 20th Aug 08. Source- http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Video%20Movies Q. 1. What is the importance or relationship between theoretical physics and the LHC project? Q. 2. What can be expected to happen on First Beam...
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The Watchmen Trailer *Official* (720p High Definition)
- Length: 2:20
- Rating Average: 4.88 from 528 people
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- Author: LeisherProductions
Tags: 300 adaptation book brothers comic dark director knight man men movie official Snyder the trailer warner watch watchman watchmen Zack
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" -- which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union -- is permanently set at five minutes to midnight....
A Look Inside Orion
- Length: 5:32
- Rating Average: 4.98 from 47 people
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- Author: ReelNASA
Tags: Altair Ares capsule Constellation crew exploration lunar moon NASA Orion spacecraft vehicle
America will send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle. Making its first flights early in the next decade, Orion is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the...
Free Up Disk Space in Windows
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- Rating Average: 4.85 from 101 people
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- Author: PCWizKid
Tags: computer disk microsoft pc pcwizkid performance technology tips tweaks usage vista windows xp
Visit http://PCWizKidsTechTalk.com - Tips and Tweaks There are many areas in Windows Vista and XP that you can delete temporary files and decrease disk usage. Notes from video: Delete temp files from: c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ C:\WINDOWS\Temp\ C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local...
Where's My Money?? Stewie Beats Brian Part 2
- Length: 1:2
- Rating Average: 4.91 from 3973 people
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- Author: KTLA
Tags: abuse animal blood blowtorch brian chris dog family guy ktla lois meg peta peter pouch quagmire stewie
Know your episodes ;) the beating was split into two scenes. Here some more beatings for you.
GLAST Instruments
- Length: 10:0
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 20 people
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- Author: BrunoTheQuestionable
Tags: GBM GLAST Instruments LAT
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an international and multi-agency space observatory that will study the cosmos in the photon energy range of 8,000 electronvolts (8 keV) to greater than 300 billion electronvolts (300 GeV). An electronvolt is a unit of energy close to that of...
