Interest of the day

Saul Perlmutter a Lawrence Berkeley Lab astrophysicist won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He describes the universe and dark energy in the short video.

Check out this short video of the F35B landing on a carrier deck. It hovers and then lands. Just amazing.

SpaceX has produced this wonderful video of their future spacecraft. Nice job on the concepts and the animation.

The full version of the Richard Feynman Biography - Best Mind Since Einstein is available on YouTube. Seeing this video makes me want to read QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter again.

Built by kids website provides all kinds of info on DIY building projects for kids. Sweet.

Astronomers have pieced together images from the Hubble Space telescope going back 14 years to create short movies of jets from stars.

Check out this cool animation showing the assmebly of the ISS. Click on the module list elements on the right to see details of each module is a separate pop-up window.

The folk over at Sixty Symbols have put together a nice video about Schrodinger's theater.
He lectured at Trinity Collage in Dublin for over 20 years. The lectures have been collected together in a book titled What is Live?.

The Flash Center for Computational Science at the University of Chicago has developed a publicly available multiphysics multiscale simulation code called FLASH. This program can be used to simulate High-Energy Density Physics (HEDP) and Supernovae. The center has produces a bunch very cool moives of simulations of gravitational detonations.

Stanford has made their Artificial Intelligence/Introduction to Roboticscourse available free online. A companion website and the book associated book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is also available online.