oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:56:00 -0800 Back where the web began: matter, antimatter http://oddtag.posterous.com/back-where-the-web-began-matter-antimatter http://oddtag.posterous.com/back-where-the-web-began-matter-antimatter

txt: CERN: How the web began

The first proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW) was made at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, and further refined by him and Robert Cailliau in 1990.

 

txt: Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN

Antimatter – or the lack of it – remains one of the biggest mysteries of science. Matter and its counterpart are identical except for opposite charge, and they annihilate when they meet. At the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been produced in equal amounts. However, we know that our world is made up of matter: antimatter seems to have disappeared. To find out what has happened to it, scientists employ a range of methods to investigate whether a tiny difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could point towards an explanation.

 

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  - CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva.

- The ALPHA Collaboration

- CERN Courier: Keeping antihydrogen: the ALPHA trap

 

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Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:59:00 -0700 A learning centre: The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-learning-centre-the-ecole-polytechnique-fed http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-learning-centre-the-ecole-polytechnique-fed

video: Great Architects - Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa - Rolex Learning Center

 

 

 

txt: An introduction - The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

 

EPFL is the research home of the beginning of the modern computer mouse, of the ambitious Blue Brain Project, and of innovative ideas towards sustainable development. Offering tuition at all levels from undergraduate to PhD, it is one of the world’s fastest growing campuses. It is currently ranked alongside Cambridge as the top university in Europe in the category of engineering, technology and computer sciences according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Situated on a single campus overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, with extraordinary views of the Alps, EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. These include 7,000 students as well as professors, over 4,000 researchers and other faculty members, plus administrative staff and a number of entrepreneurs running small start-up science and technology businesses located on the campus.

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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:57:50 -0700 The world's first hydrogen-run power plant: Fusina (Venice, Italy) http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-worlds-first-hydrogen-run-power-plant-fus http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-worlds-first-hydrogen-run-power-plant-fus txt: Enel Opens Hydrogen-Run Power Plant - The Wall Street Journal
FUSINA, Italy - Enel SpA on Monday opened the world's first hydrogen-run power plant as the Italian utility beefs up its green credentials ahead of the planned multibillion-euro sale of its renewables unit set for the fall. The new plant located in Fusina, a short distance from Venice, has an overall generation capacity of 16 megawatts.
txt: ENEL inaugura a Fusina il primo impianto industriale a idrogeno al mondo - Venezia, 12 luglio 2010
L’impianto sperimentale ad altissima efficienza si colloca nell’ambito dei progetti di Hydrogen Park, il Consorzio nato nel 2003 su iniziativa dell’Unione Industriali di Venezia, con il sostegno della Regione Veneto e del Ministero dell’Ambiente per circa 4 milioni di euro, allo scopo di promuovere nell’area di Porto Marghera lo sviluppo e le applicazioni delle tecnologie dell’idrogeno nel settore del trasporto e della generazione.
link: www.hydrogenpark.com - no english version yet :-(

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Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:15:00 -0700 There is no future without memory / Non c'è futuro senza memoria http://oddtag.posterous.com/there-is-no-future-without-memory-non-ce-futu http://oddtag.posterous.com/there-is-no-future-without-memory-non-ce-futu

Take a walk into the industrial area of Marghera. Walk alone, at 2 pm, under a summer sun. Exit the station of Mestre, get into the chaos of cars, buses, trains (planes and ships farther). Then you arrive. Silence. Long and deserted streets. Sun, lot of sun. Ok, the Vegapark of course, but then you walk, you walk a lot. Behind. Around. Around the petrochemicals, the shipyards, the docks (the dock of the Nitrogen!), the the big ships, the skeletons of the sheds, the dead rails, the futuristic overpasses. If there is a place where the collision between past present and future is so harsh, that place is still Marghera. You get there to see signs of innovation, of future: Vegapark, technology, creativity (the coworking, for example). But when you're there you cannot escape the present, even less the past. Most of the bills with it are still open. Heavy. We need a sustainable future, for all.  

 

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 Fatti un giro per la zona industriale di Marghera. A piedi, da solo, alle due del pomeriggio, sotto il sole d'estate. Esci dalla stazione di Mestre, t'infili nel caos di macchine, autobus, treni (più in là, aerei e navi). E poi arrivi. Silenzio. Strade lunghe e deserte. Tanto sole. Sì, il Vegapark, ovvio, ma poi cammini, cammini ancora. Cammini tanto. Dietro. Intorno. Al petrolchimico, ai cantieri navali, alle banchine (la banchina dell'Azoto!), alle grandi navi ormeggiate, agli scheletri dei capannoni, ai binari morti, ai cavalcavia futuristici. Se c'è un posto dove la collisione tra passato presente e futuro è così dura, quel posto è ancora Marghera. E ci vieni per vedere segni di innovazione, di futuro: il Vegapark, la tecnologia, la creatività (il coworking, per esempio). Ma quando sei lì davvero non puoi fuggire al presente, meno che meno al passato. E molti conti sono ancora lì: Aperti. Pesanti. Serve un futuro sostenibile, per tutti.  

 

link: Associazione Gabriele Bortolozzo  

video: VEGA Science & Technology Park

 

 

video: Porto Marghera - Inganno Letale

 

 

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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:07:21 -0700 Venice as a large workshop of the contemporary http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-as-a-large-workshop-of-the-contemporar http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-as-a-large-workshop-of-the-contemporar Best wishes and good luck on your new job, Mr. Orsoni txt: Inaugural address of the Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni - Venezia, 26 aprile 2010
The water town and the land town will be one big metropolis, with different characteristics that complete and reinforce each other, but should increasingly be linked especially in the common objectives. The city can be a large workshop of the contemporary culture production and of the green and immaterial economy, and may be the capital of the new era that awaits us: a paradigm city, a landmark of the world where the future is announced or builded. [it] Città d’acqua e città di terra saranno un'unica grande metropoli, con caratteristiche diverse che si completano e rafforzano, ma devono essere sempre più collegate e unite soprattutto negli obiettivi comuni. La città che può essere allo stesso tempo grande officina della contemporaneità, della produzione culturale e dell’economia verde e immateriale, proprio per questo può essere capitale della nuova era che ci aspetta: una città paradigma uno dei luoghi simbolo del mondo in cui si annuncia o si costruisce il futuro.

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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:35:46 -0700 Festival delle città impresa: (what) culture enriches (who of) us http://oddtag.posterous.com/festival-delle-citta-impresa-what-culture-enr http://oddtag.posterous.com/festival-delle-citta-impresa-what-culture-enr txt: The Festival of the city-enterprise - www.festivaldellecittaimpresa.it A Festival that wants to tell the transformations of the North East and think about the future. The urban centres are the protagonists, the symbols of the industrial transformation that has taken place during the last decades. Today they are representative models of a constantly moving system, lived as an experimental place, together with the cities that are the symbols of the cultural life. A network event that takes place in some cities-enterprise which constitute the symbol of the transformation of the Venice area's economic and social fabric, and that will connect them to Verona, Venice and Trieste, symbols of the three region's cultural life in turn, where some key events will take place. Locations Rovereto (TN): The culture of sustainability - science and enterprise meet in Technopolis. Schio (VI): Reinvent the worlds: how art and culture can create new scenarios after the crisis. Union of the cities Camposampierese (PD): The networks of knowledge and communication. Montebelluna-Asolo (TV): Design as a competitive factor for the enterprise. Vittorio Veneto (TV): Spaces and landscape of a European capital: ideas for a new balance. Maniago (PN): The new cultural industries: the movie factor. Interland Udine (UD): The new "Marco Polo". Culture as a dialogue and exchange factor between the markets and peoples from East to West. link: The Festival of the city-enterprise program

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:40:47 -0700 The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-fringe-benefits-of-failure-and-the-import http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-fringe-benefits-of-failure-and-the-import The best magic of Henry Potter: becoming yourself txt: JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
At her Harvard University commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any qualification I ever earned."
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:16:34 -0800 Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future http://oddtag.posterous.com/seize-the-day-trusting-as-little-as-possible http://oddtag.posterous.com/seize-the-day-trusting-as-little-as-possible [tweetmeme] txt: Carpe diem - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe diem quam minime credula postero – "Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future", and the ode says that the future is unknowable, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine. Compare with the Biblical "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die", a conflation, with emphasis on making the most of current opportunities because life is short and time is fleeting – an existential caution.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:04:07 -0800 The tame of the Shrew-Internet http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-tame-of-the-shrew-internet http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-tame-of-the-shrew-internet txt: Lawrence Lessig - The Future of Ideas
The cultural dinosaurs of our recent past are moving to quickly remake cyberspace so that they can better protect their interests against the future. Powerful conglomerates are swiftly using both law and technology to "tame" the Internet, transforming it from an open forum for ideas into nothing more than cable television on speed. Innovation, once again, will be directed from the top down, increasingly controlled by owners of the networks, holders of the largest patent portfolios, and, most invidiously, hoarders of copyrights. The choice Lawrence Lessig presents is not between progress and the status quo. It is between progress and a new Dark Ages, in which our capacity to create is confined by an architecture of control and a society more perfectly monitored and filtered than any before in history. Important avenues of thought and free expression will increasingly be closed off. The door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology makes an extraordinary future possible.
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