Monday, February 22, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
TED 3
Sean Gourley on the Mathematics of War
Gourley is a physicist who wants to understand the war in Iraq. They collected NGO's, cable news, and newspapers in order ot make a database of information. They were able to gt locations, countries, how many killed, on what days, what weapons used, ect. They found out, after graphing it, that it has a distinct order unlike when all of our wars were graphed together. However, once they graphed Columbia, Afghanistan, and Senegal separately, they all seemed to follow the same fundamental, mathematical data. They generated an equation of the likelihood of an attach, P(x)=Cx^-alpha, where P is the probability of an event, x is the number killed, C is the constant, and a is the slope of the line on the graph. From this they are capable of figuring out the future of attacks. They found that alpha is the organizational structure of the insurgency. They don't understand, however, why this different conflicts have similar patterns. A stable state of 2.5 is what wars look like when they continue. By pushing it up, the forces become more but they are weaker, or you can push it down where there are less attacks, but much more robust.
Gourley is a physicist who wants to understand the war in Iraq. They collected NGO's, cable news, and newspapers in order ot make a database of information. They were able to gt locations, countries, how many killed, on what days, what weapons used, ect. They found out, after graphing it, that it has a distinct order unlike when all of our wars were graphed together. However, once they graphed Columbia, Afghanistan, and Senegal separately, they all seemed to follow the same fundamental, mathematical data. They generated an equation of the likelihood of an attach, P(x)=Cx^-alpha, where P is the probability of an event, x is the number killed, C is the constant, and a is the slope of the line on the graph. From this they are capable of figuring out the future of attacks. They found that alpha is the organizational structure of the insurgency. They don't understand, however, why this different conflicts have similar patterns. A stable state of 2.5 is what wars look like when they continue. By pushing it up, the forces become more but they are weaker, or you can push it down where there are less attacks, but much more robust.
TED 2
Daniel Kraft Invents a better Way to Harvest Bone Marrow
Children who have leukemia are in need of bone marrow stem cells. People would willingly donate, however it is a very painful process in which includes 200 holes being placed into the bone marrow of the hip. With Kraft seeing the problems that this has, for he is a doctor, he invented a new tool that allows you to only insert the hip bone once, and a bendable catheter is inserted and scrapes up a massive amount of bone marrow. This single insertion actually is able to get a lot more active bone marrow than the old fashioned way.
Children who have leukemia are in need of bone marrow stem cells. People would willingly donate, however it is a very painful process in which includes 200 holes being placed into the bone marrow of the hip. With Kraft seeing the problems that this has, for he is a doctor, he invented a new tool that allows you to only insert the hip bone once, and a bendable catheter is inserted and scrapes up a massive amount of bone marrow. This single insertion actually is able to get a lot more active bone marrow than the old fashioned way.
TED
Anthony Atala on Growing New Organs
"Every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement."
Although there are a lot of lives saved each day with the help of replacing organs, there is a huge shortage of them, and it defnitely isn't saving as many lives as it could. Anthony Atala feels that a great way would be to have body parts regenerate organs and tissues that are no longer there or working properly. This idea is used by many animals, such as salamanders. In essence, his main idea is to grow them, instead of having to transplant them. After building it and placing it into an oven with specific degrees and amount of oxygen, they actually exercise the muscles in order to condition it to what it is supposed to do, and then they place it into the patient. Another way to make it is to use a printer that uses cells instead of ink. This is actually in use today; not to be used on patients yet, but is still experiemental.
"Every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement."
Although there are a lot of lives saved each day with the help of replacing organs, there is a huge shortage of them, and it defnitely isn't saving as many lives as it could. Anthony Atala feels that a great way would be to have body parts regenerate organs and tissues that are no longer there or working properly. This idea is used by many animals, such as salamanders. In essence, his main idea is to grow them, instead of having to transplant them. After building it and placing it into an oven with specific degrees and amount of oxygen, they actually exercise the muscles in order to condition it to what it is supposed to do, and then they place it into the patient. Another way to make it is to use a printer that uses cells instead of ink. This is actually in use today; not to be used on patients yet, but is still experiemental.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
the Salvation Army
This cd holder isn't very useful in 2010, mostly because everyone holds their music in their computers and don't even buy cds.
This work-out equipment is very oldfashioned compared to what most homeowners have now with the 10 speed bike with twenty different attachments.
Most families do not have VHS players anymore, and so they would have no need for VHS movies.
Although some people still enjoy magazines that are tangible, most read them online for free and do not need a magazine holder.
This is a picture of a calculator with a receipt printer. It is a lot bulkier than the ones we have now, and it definitely isn't as high tech.
This coffee maker is really old fashioned compared to the coffee makers found in kitchens today. Unlike recent ones, this only has an on and off button, and has a slow drip.
This keyboard does not resemble the mac keyboards of this decade, furnished with lighted keys and an extremely flat appearance.
On this shelf is a photo album. Because a majority of people now have digital cameras that plug directly into their computer, most people have online photo albums instead of tangible ones.
These board games are not very popular anymore dur to the high demand in comptuer games, wii games, xbox games, ect.
Our society doesn't use CD's anymore, let alone records.
Monday, February 8, 2010
world.
earth.
humankind.
humanity.
civilization.
culture.
evolution.
development.
advancement.
modernization.
revolution.
civil disobedience.
disruption.
disorder.
taking advantage.
prevailing.
failing.
After watching the Inconvenient Truth, I thought I had a general understanding as to what our world was turning into. Yet, once viewing the Eleventh Hour, everything became much more clear; unfortunately. We all might not know the specifics, the equations, the 'numbers' that is the basis of our ultimate failure, but we all are aware what we are doing to this world we live on. Because we are capable of making machines, we must be the best living creatures on this earth, right? Because we know the innermost workings of humans and their DNA, we obviously must be the smartest. Because we have a sustainable economy based on a money system, we must have the most potential. And since this is all so obvious to us, this of course means we can take advantage of...whatever we want, right?
...wrong.
earth.
humankind.
humanity.
civilization.
culture.
evolution.
development.
advancement.
modernization.
revolution.
civil disobedience.
disruption.
disorder.
taking advantage.
prevailing.
failing.
After watching the Inconvenient Truth, I thought I had a general understanding as to what our world was turning into. Yet, once viewing the Eleventh Hour, everything became much more clear; unfortunately. We all might not know the specifics, the equations, the 'numbers' that is the basis of our ultimate failure, but we all are aware what we are doing to this world we live on. Because we are capable of making machines, we must be the best living creatures on this earth, right? Because we know the innermost workings of humans and their DNA, we obviously must be the smartest. Because we have a sustainable economy based on a money system, we must have the most potential. And since this is all so obvious to us, this of course means we can take advantage of...whatever we want, right?
...wrong.
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