Testing blog node entry to make sure it is fixed

Testing blog node entry to make sure it is fixed

No matter what their profession, all the letter writers behaved the same way. They adhered to a circadian cycle; they tended to write a number of letters at one sitting, which is more efficient; and…
Smart houses and contextual patterns

Smart houses and contextual patterns

A few years ago, I was spending a good bit of my time on context-based services. User context — also called “presence” — is information, which changes over time, about the current state of a user or…
Unlocking Oxygen Trapped Inside Luna's Soil

Unlocking Oxygen Trapped Inside Luna's Soil

The moon has no has no atmosphere like Earth's but oxygen which can be used for people, growing food, creating water and even burning rocket fuel is trapped in its soil.Scientists from NASA and…
Wild Musical Inventions From Berlin Hackday

Wild Musical Inventions From Berlin Hackday

As much as our 'Project Calliope' satellite is a science project, it's also a music experiment.  We are, after all, flying scientific instruments on a picosatellite specifically to make music.…
Developing Science 2.0: New Editor Features

Developing Science 2.0: New Editor Features

Hi there, I'm Patrick and I'm one of the principal developers on ScientificBlogging.com - that means if the site mysteriously crashed, I likely did it. This column is around to help introduce /…
Mendeley (And Other Free Software)

Mendeley (And Other Free Software)

Some time ago, I posted about my search for a new reference management program for Windows that would be the rough equivalent of Papers for Mac (which is the rough equivalent of iTunes for PDFs). I…
The Next Communication Technology

The Next Communication Technology

What major communication technology will come next?  Around the middle nineteenth century, the television was starting to get big. As its hardware became more advanced, and more affordable it…