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Publication: American Scientist

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Focus Stacking

A photo processing technique called focus stacking electronically combines the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, to allow full focus on a micron scale. Such images made with a microscope camera measure color with new precision, which could aid ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Reproduction, Organism

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Stents to Prevent Stroke

These devices can spring into shape automatically to open arteries blocked with plaque ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Stent, Artery

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Botanical Illustration in China and India

Artists from Asia brought skill and style to the drawings they made for European plant collectors ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: India, China

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Illuminating Dark Energy with Supernovae

Catastrophic explosions in space reveal surprising information about the early universe ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Detonation

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Levitated Mass

In the early 1960s some artists abandoned the wall, the gallery and the museum for altering the landscape outside. Thats what human beings had done to the Earth for millenniaâleft their mark, indelible or not. This may signal ownership, dominance or an ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Environment, Wallace Stevens, Displacement

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Sigma Xi

Making Choices

People make choices every day that impact the lives of others they will never meet. Many of the choices we make are trivial, affecting only ourselves. But sometimes an individual comes along whose choices serve to better the lives of a broad group of ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Andrew Howell, Sigma Xi, Tom Dunne, Rodale, Inc.

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

The Adaptable Gas Turbine

Whether creating electricity or moving planes, this engine continues to inspire innovation Much of my efforts as a mechanical engineer, both in industry and academia, have been guided by the first law of thermodynamics (stated in the principle of the ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Gas Turbine, Prime Mover, Aviation

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance

Ethanol affects the central nervous system in ways that are veryÂ similar to the effects of solvents. Furthermore, the effects of ethanol and someÂ solventsÂ have been measured using the same test methods, making it possible to relate theÂ potency of ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Ethanol, Solvents, Car Accidents, Tolerance, Solvent

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Attractive Models

Congratulations to Henry Petroski for his Engineering column in the March–April issue. I hope many high school students see that article and that their science teachers will carry out enactments such as those shown in Petroskis article of the Forth Bridge. ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Henry Petroski, Benjamin Baker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

A Fict for a Fact

In their Macroscope column , Andrew Gelman and Thomas Basbøll relate how the When you are lost, any old map will do meme originated in a passage lifted without attribution by Karl Weick from a poem by Miroslav Holub. Weick wrote in Sensemaking in Organizations ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Karl E. Weick, Plagiarism, Miroslav Holub, Albert Szent-Györgyi

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Foursquare

In the May–June Computing Science column Crinkly Curves by Brian Hayes, I found the concept of constructing a curve that fills a space interesting in that the link between points on the space-filling curve and the points on a line is not easily recognizable ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Foursquare Labs Inc, Fractal, fractal dimension

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Cetacean Portraits

HOME July-August 2013 Bookshelf Detail BEAUTIFUL WHALE. Bryant Austin. Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle. 123 pp. Abrams, 2013. $50.The descriptors that immediately come to mind when one thinks of whales include immense and humongous, possibly graceful, ... [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Austin, Hunter College, Sperm

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Stents to Prevent Stroke [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Illuminating Dark Energy with Supernovae [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Botanical Illustration in China and India [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Making Choices [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
The Adaptable Gas Turbine [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Levitated Mass [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Focus Stacking [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Attractive Models [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
A Fict for a Fact [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Foursquare [Published American Scientist - Jun 14 2013]
Time to Evolve [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
States of Incandescence [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
Cetacean Portraits [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
Geothermal Energy [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
Focus on Everything [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
The Thermodynamic Sinks of this World [Published American Scientist - Jun 13 2013]
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