![]() ![]() Kiki’s Science Hour on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. Kiki’s Science Hour with Greg Gburįor the next few weeks I will be guest host of Dr. The show streams live (and airs on your local public radio station, too, probably) from 11am-1pm Pacific/2-4pm Eastern. Oh – and listen for me on NPR’s Science Friday tomorrow. Richard Lenski’s Experimental Evolution Lab at Michigan State University has an evolution odometer on the front page, tracking how many generations of E.coli the lab has bred – over 50,000 generations, so far! 2010) article on consciousness at the .Ī list of great science books for high school students.Ĭarl’s Slate article about the controversy surrounding the NASA study of arsenic-based life – “This Paper Should Not Have Been Published”įollow me and Carl on Twitter: and “ Virus Walks Into A Bar” series of jokes on YouTube.ĭr. I also have his first book (which he says is his favorite): At the Water’s Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea And I just received the brand new edition of his ten-year-old book about parasites: Parasite Rex. He’s also written on evolution ( Evolution: Triumph of an Ideaand the textbook The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution). Visit his blog The Loom on Discover Magazine’s website. His growing collection of science tattoos resides at his Science Tattoo Emporium. Here is a recent post about Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His latest book is Planet of Viruses which will be out in hardcover from University of Chicago Press on May 1.Ĭarl also has a book about science tattoos coming out later this year. It’s about life and evolution, as seen through the lens of the most well-researched microorganism. I’m currently reading his book Microcosm: E. Good thing I went to that.Ĭarl is an amazing writer. In fact, that’s where I met last week’s guest, Greg Gbur, as well. My guest this week is science writer Carl Zimmer, whom I met at the ScienceOnline2011 conference in January. Wherein Science Comedian Interviews Science Writer Carl Zimmer ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you’re interested, jump to Kickstarter official site for more details or check out the following demo video first. Pledging $300 will let you own the LED light bar. Apart from that, the light bar is powered by 8 AA batteries.Īt present the team of Pixelstick is raising fund at Kickstarter. ![]() Moreover, Pixelstick reads images created in Photoshop so you easily create all kinds of light paintings. Pixelstick lets you paint photo-realistic images and animations with 198 LED bulbs By Les Shu NovemOne of the creative things you can do with a camera is light painting, a long-exposure. As we can see from the images, Pixelstick consists of two 3′ section of aluminum housing connected using a central bracket proving a mounting point for its handle, and the LED light bar totally contains 198 full color RGB LED lights, using a small mounted box the LED light bar reads images from an SD card and display them, one line at a time in order that you can use long exposure photography to take catchy light painting photos. The mounted controller reads images you’ve downloaded or created from an SD card and displays them, one line at a time, on the LEDs. This incredible light painting tool will aid you in different ways to make your painting excellent. Pixelstick consists of 200 full color RGB LEDs inside a lightweight aluminum housing. With a 200-RGB LED with a diffusion lens inside, the Pixelstick Lightpainting LED Tool is a fantastic piece of equipment to paint panoramic images, lovely animations, and abstract designs. The Pixelstick transforms the darkness of the night by adding a rainbow of bright LED color to your light painting photography. A metal stick with coloured LED lights attached allowing. ![]() This tool cannot be used on mobile devices - sorry pixelstick was created by shooters, for shooters. If you are a night owl and love the art of light painting then the Pixelstick should certainly be on your holiday wish list. A creative collection of photos taken using long exposures and the great tool called Pixel Stick. Pixelstick is an innovative creative tool designed to offer you an easy way to take various amazing light painting photographs. Resembling a really fancy light saber, the 6 ft (2 m) Pixelstick contains 198 RGB LEDs in its aluminum frame and a controller that accesses uploaded images from an SD card. Seamlessly paint photoreal images, abstract designs, and animation into your long exposure photos and timelapse. 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Both the formulation as a joint market for information and bandwidth and the formulation as a market for bandwidth alone addresses the possibility that both the sender and the receiver have a preference for the receiver receiving information. The formulation as a market for bandwidth ignores what it is that users want to send through the Internet bandwidth is the only good considered, and can be considered solely from a sender's perspective. I will call this combination of information and bandwidth, communication. ![]() a joint market for information and for bandwidth. In other cases, it is beneficial to consider the task to be simultaneous allocation of both rights to information which can be sent over the Internet and the resources to be used for transmission, i. In some cases, it is suitable to consider the task to be allocation of communication resources, i. ![]() This paper examines proposed congestion pricing schemes allocating traffic on the Internet. The question of how the market for communication (e.g., bandwidth) and the market for information (e.g., files) are linked is addressed by exploring analogies with other network environments. The incidence of the communication cost (the manner in which the communication cost is shared between buyer and seller) is not a design choice: it is endogenous and depends only on the preferences of network users. The liability should be imposed so as to minimize such compliance costs. Different liability allocations will result in different compliance (accounting, collection, and verification) costs. The liability for communication costs (obligation to collect and submit the communication cost) may be imposed by the network owner on senders (sellers of information) and/or on receivers (buyers of information). Incidence and liability for communication (network usage) costs are two distinct issues. There are several means to discourage the monopolistic inefficiencies due to the withholding of capacity: by making congestion pricing a revenue neutral process by giving displaced users or their proxies the congestion fees, or by making users joint owners of the bandwidth resource and thus joint claimants to the congestion revenue, or by assessing both an access fee and a congestion fee (i.e., a two part tariff), or by having competition for bandwidth provision. Such a strategy of withholding capacity is analogous to the monopolist's strategy of choosing an output quantity smaller than that which corresponds to marginal cost intersecting the consumers' demand curve. Congestion can be caused by withholding capacity, which on the Internet, can be achieved by strategically not building capacity, or by hiding capacity from routers by deliberate non-advertisement of routes or by route blocking, or by self dealing whereby the owner of capacity buys back a portion of her own capacity. The recipient of congestion pricing revenue has an incentive to cause congestion in order to collect more revenue. ![]() A congestion pricing scheme will generate revenue only if demand for bandwidth at zero price exceeds the bandwidth capacity. Presented at MIT Workshop on Internet Economics March 1995 Abstract ![]() ![]() ![]() Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook. "The Flash" Season 3 continues Tuesdays at 8 p.m. If everything Grant has done up until now, including the musical, hasn't blown you away with his talent, I think when you see scenes of him and Savitar together, you're really going to be blown away because he's found a whole new speed for him." He does the same with Savitar, especially in scenes where he has to act with himself. What's so amazing about these last few episodes, especially when you think about it in terms of 'Once and Future Flash,' is Grant made the future Flash a very distinct character. The idea that the darkest villain we could come up with was actually a very damaged version of our hero was interesting and fresh to us. "What's really cool for anyone who thought that there wasn't a plan, or we didn't know, or we were making this up as we go, this was always where we were heading. At the end of episode 20 of The Flash, the CW series finally revealed Savitar’s true identity. After finally putting the pieces together, Barry Allen came to the realization that Savitar is actually a future version of himself. ![]() "You get that in the next episode, and the mystery is ongoing, but obviously Savitar is a version of Barry Allen, a heavily scarred version," Kreisberg told EW. Declaring his relief, Savitar knelt down, removed his armor and revealed himself as none other than a future version of his nemesis with a pale and scarred face. Savitar's identity was finally revealed during Tuesday's episode of The Flash and it's safe to say that the hero has truly become the villain. #TheFlash /K8f0FOv5abĮntertainment Weekly talked to executive producer Andrew Kreisberg about the Iris question, wondering why future Flash would want to kill her. If Savitar is Barry then why did he kill Iris #TheFlash /hIcoP911Pf Them: *Barry steps out of Savitar's armour. When deep down u knew it was going to be Future Barry but you were hoping it was Ronnie instead #TheFlash #Savitar /CzCgJMRKLa AHAHAHA /M849vzvwNLīarry Is Savitar #TheFlash /fUKWSrNP5A THEY RAISE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS. ME LITERALLY RIGHT NOW TRYING TO FIGURE ABOUT SAVITAR IN #THEFLASH ![]() And it still doesn't make any damn sense. the monster speedster Savitar revealed himself to. I just wanna say I called who Savitar was like a month ago. 2) 108 (December 1995), and was created by Mark Waid and Oscar Jimenez. My reaction to finding out who savitar is. Me after the savitar reveal #TheFlash /SMIGtsef63 Many fans did see this coming, and not just because Savitar basically spoiled it himself when he told Barry, "You are the past, whereas I am the future, Flash." Maybe viewers just implied the comma when he was really saying, "I am the future Flash."Īt any rate, even the fans who guessed Savitar was future Flash still have many questions. "The Flash" Season 3 shared a big reveal in last night's Episode 20, "I Know Who You Are." Fans were shown the identity of Savitar, and they did know who he was - a future version of Barry Allen's Flash himself. Dalrada almost flared in anger, then calmed himself with a knowing nod as he walked away. ![]() ![]() ![]() 20 years ago QuarkXPress was the industry standard DTP program on Mac but increasingly became slow, bloated, buggy and generally left behind. However, its market share has taken a big dent over the past decade due to an increasingly bloated design and from the rise of Adobe InDesign and the incredibly powerful Adobe Creative Cloud suite. ![]() ![]() QuarkXPress is probably the most expensive DTP software you’ll find but it is easily the most well-known and established Desktop Publishing Software among professional publishing houses. However, the latest version of QuarkXPress is a huge improvement and if you’re looking for a professional desktop publishing software without a monthly subscription, it might be for you (it doesn’t come cheap though at $349). QuarkXPress used to be the industry standard for Desktop Publishing on Mac many years ago but has suffered from a lack of development and competition from InDesign on Mac. No review of desktop publishing software on Mac would be complete without a mention of QuarkXPress. There is however also Scribus which doesn’t have the features and polished interface of the software covered so far but is definitely worth checking-out if you’re on a strict budget. There are basically no free alternatives to Publisher on a Mac that have comparable features and functionality, although LibreOffice (see review above) is about the closest you’ll get to a free version of Publisher. Overall, if you’re trying to create a magazine, advertisement, flyers, resume or business card, Publisher Plus is generally an excellent desktop publishing software. Your best bet is probably to try to Publisher Lite from the Mac App Store for free first and then upgrade to Publisher Plus if you like it. There’s also which allows you to edit Microsoft Publisher files for free although it only allows you to edit or create a few limited pages and you have to buy the full version for $39.90 to unlock the entire app. The pricing for Publisher Plus is a bit confusing as you can get it direct from the developer for $39.90 with a 30 day money back guarantee or $19.99 from the Mac App Store. That said, if you compare it side-by-side with MS Publisher, Publisher Plus actually has more features although it should be stressed, only if you upgrade from Lite to the full version of Publisher Plus. But what allows you to get really creative with InDesign is undoubtedly which integrates into all of its Creative Cloud software. For starters, you can of course import high quality vector graphics from other Adobe apps such as Illustrator and Photoshop in a few clicks. Most impressive in InDesign however is the way it handles images. You can now easily create multi-column text blocks, apply font styles or changes and wrap text around objects in a few clicks. Adobe has simplified InDesign a lot to appeal to a wider market and there are also plenty of easy to follow InDesign video tutorials to help you get to grips with the software. InDesign has become far more accessible to the average user too with an easier to use layout that’s closer to the Microsoft Office style ribbon interface and toolbox. The introduction of a huge number of royalty free professional images in (additional subscription required) means anyone can now produce professional looking publications without the need for a big design or imaging department. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Odashima didn't stop there, even post-release he maintained that not even one fourth of the game's planned story content was actually part of the title. ![]() This is not a bad thing in theory, but another problem was that even during development, the game's director Daishi Odashima openly said that he felt Bandai Namco were rushing the team. In interviews, it's been stated that one of the goals with Soul Calibur 5 was to capitalize on this and many of the game's decisions were made in order to appeal to competitive players. When 2012 hit, fighting games were in the limelight in a big way, and eSports was beginning to grow. I played Soul Calibur religiously way before I got in to any fighting game community, and bought every game - even the Wii spinoff Legends - since 2. With all this in mind, it's not difficult to see how Soul Calibur managed to build up such a robust fanbase amongst casual players, actually including myself. Sure, you were still choosing from generic movesets in the game, but with so many customization options available, as well as a very expansive single player experience to enjoy, the game was played extensively in family homes across the world.Īlthough they maintained the character creation mode in the game and endeavored to keep players engaged through single player content, Bandai Namco also fell back to guest characters to spur on extra interest in Soul Calibur 4, and although they didn't achieve the same buzz Soul Calibur 2 had, seeing Yoda, Darth Vader and The Force Unleashed's main character Starkiller in the game was a bit of a hot topic. Playing a character like Link was obviously novel and exciting, but creating your own character? That was fresh. It was hard to imagine how they were going to top such a huge PR move with the next game, and although it's hard to argue that they surpassed it, they did introduce a new staple to the series which secured casual interest in a big way - character creation. This was expanded upon greatly with the relase of Soul Calibur 2, when the developers decided to release the sequel on each of the three rivaling consoles - Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox - with one unique guest fighter for each platform.Īlthough Heihachi wasn't that exciting of a choice (it was actually originally meant to be Cloud from Final Fantasy 7), Link and Spawn excited many a fan, and the game received amazing publicity. ![]() It turned a lot of heads at the time, and with fighting games being decently big at the time, especially the newfangled 3D variety of them, it wasn't just a competitive favorite, but gained many casual fans as well. It was an engaging and deep 3D fighting game, at a time when arcades were still alive even outside of Japan, and had a home console version that was in fact graphically superior to the arcade version. Receiving perfect scores from publications left and right, ending up with a Metacritic score as high as 98%, there's no doubt that Soul Calibur was a critical darling, but it was a commercial success as well. One of the most critically acclaimed titles of its time, it was seen by many as the main reason to buy a DreamCast when it came out. Although the series actually started with 1995's Soul Edge, it's often 1998's Soul Calibur that's fondly remembered when talking about the series' origins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edgar blows the house down with a Texas tornado of saxophone accompanied by thunder and lightning from Bob Glaub on bass, Gregg Bissonette on drums, and additional vocals by Phil X.Įdgar writes in his liner notes. The signature guitar is masterfully delivered by fellow Texan David Grissom, who strikes the perfect balance between Chuck Berry’s classic riffs and Johnny’s wild Winter whirlwind of intensity. Joe does the vocal honors on this one, leaving his legendary guitar work for a personal favorite called “Stranger” (featuring Michael McDonald, with Ringo Starr on drums). The opening rips right out of the speakers – that infamous guitar line along with Edgar’s smokin’ piano – followed by roaring vocals from Edgar and Joe Walsh. ![]() Goode,” a perfect fit not only in name but in sentiment, and a song that remained a standard in Johnny’s sets right up to the very end. This announcement comes with the release of “Johnny B. The album is nothing short of a masterpiece. The superhuman artistry and inspiration you hear in the new interpretations of some of Johnny’s signature songs, like ‘Hootchie Koo’ and ‘Alive and Well,’ are matched only by Edgar’s original and very personal, ‘End of the Line,’ which strikes a very human chord. “An album as remarkable in its musicianship as it is in the depth of feeling that comes through in each and every note of each and every song. “Quarto Valley Records is honoured to be releasing Edgar’s tribute to his brother Johnny,” said Bruce Quarto. ![]() It was his boundless enthusiasm and devotion to classic rock, the blues, (and Johnny in particular) that convinced Edgar the time for this tribute album had finally come. Soon after Edgar met Bruce Quarto, founder, and owner of Quarto Valley Records. There was such an overwhelming outpouring of love and respect for Johnny, I began to realise it was not just business people sensing an opportunity here it was Johnny’s true, loyal, and devoted fans and our fellow musicians, many of whom are on this record, who wanted to see this happen as well.” Everyone on the tour was so kind and supportive, getting up to jam, and it became a kind of tradition. “I had anticipated the tour to be very emotional, perhaps sad, and possibly difficult, but playing those songs turned out to be a great source of strength and comfort to me. Goode”, “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo”, and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, dedicating the end of the set to Johnny. The first night, after playing “Frankenstein”, I closed the show with “Johnny B. But much to my surprise, the promoters begged me to go on with the tour as planned, asking me to headline. It wasn’t until after I completed the Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest, a tour we were meant to do together with our respective bands, that the idea of a tribute record started to take form.” Edgar adds, “I had naturally expected the whole thing to be cancelled. But I was totally devastated, and the timing just didn’t feel right to me. He had travelled to Switzerland where his next show was scheduled, but he passed away in his sleep at the hotel in Zurich before he ever got the chance.Įdgar reflects, “Many people immediately started trying to convince me to do a Johnny Winter tribute album. Johnny had just played the Cahors Blues Festival in France, which was destined to become his last show. The project has been years in the making, Edgar was first approached about it just after his brother passed away on July 16, 2014. The guitar-driven album celebrates the expansive styles Johnny was known for – the 17 tracks were carefully curated by Edgar and producer Ross Hogarth to represent Johnny’s evolution as an artist, honouring his great legacy while also incorporating a personal tribute from brother to brother, and for which Edgar penned two new songs. ![]() ![]() Ironfell was creatively a huge success, fun to play, people loved it. With Ironfell I hoped to build a game that captured the same feeling as early Civilization and Ultima and be profitable enough to become my full time job. Everyone plays in the same massive persistent world. Ironfell was an indie hex-tile MMORTS where conflict happens massive persistent universe spanning all of time and space. Start a new rogue-like game every day or build an impregnatable fortress that nobody can destroy. ![]() And you take that full advantage into battles set in a massive persistent world. The longer you've been playing for, the more resources you have, the stronger you are. Collect resources, build an army, and crush those who dare challenge you (or just plant flowers and raise ponies). From humble beginnings, you and your ponies can explore and conquer thousands of realms by land and by sea. ![]() In Ironfell you can gather stockpiles of resources to gain an unfair advantage over your enemies. Play Ironfell Free Play Game About This Game Embark on an epic crusade across all of space and time in real time. Healthy’ mum who died suddenly thought fatal condition was morning sickness. From humble beginnings, you and your ponies can explore and conquer thousands of realms by land and by sea.Ĭollect resources, build an army, and crush those who dare challenge you (or just plant flowers and raise ponies). ![]() Embark on an epic crusade across all of space and time in real time. ![]() |
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