Science & Techonology – Week of 10.05.14

Getting to Mars Will Ensure the Survival of Our Species
Daily Mail | 10 October 2014
It lost the magnetic field that protected it…

Russians May Land on the Moon by End of Next Decade
TASS | 10 October 2014
Russia will need the European Soft Landing System…

WebGL Water Simulation
YouTube | 15 August 2011
A realtime pool of water rendered using WebGL with reflection, refraction, caustics, and ambient occlusion.

WebGL Water Simulation (Graphics card and updated drivers required)
Made by Evan | 15 August 2011
The water heightfield is simulated using a floating-point texture…

Manned Flight to Mars Possible after 2035, says Russian Cosmonaut
TASS | 08 October 2014
“There is water on the Moon, and there is Helium-3, which is better than any other energy source existing on the Earth,”…

NASA Is Considering Deep Sleep for Human Mars Mission
WSJ | 08 October 2014
A NASA-backed study is exploring an innovative way to bring humans to Mars…


DJI Feats: Eruption at Bardabunga Volcano

YouTube| 07 October 2014
DJI’s first video in a series called “DJI Feats” takes you to the remote wilderness…

Interactive Map of Active Volcanoes and Recent Earthquakes World-wide
Volcano Discovery | 09 October 2014
Volcanoes of the world…

‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse To Be Visible Throughout U.S.
NPR | 07 October 2014
This week’s event will be another “blood moon” because.. the reflected light off the lunar surface first passes through Earth’s atmosphere…

Adobe’s e-book Reader Sends Your Reading Logs Back to Adobe—in Plain Text
ARS | 07 October 2014
Digital Editions even tracks which pages you’ve read…

Batteries Included: A Solar Cell that Stores its Own Power
Ohio State University | 03 October 2014
The world’s first solar battery…

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science
Open Sciences Org | 2014
The shift from materialist science to post-materialist science may be of vital…

International Summit on Post-Materialist Science, Spirituality, and Society: Summary Report
Open Sciences Org | 2014
Together we can build a new paradigm that embraces our wholeness…