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CERN has published the
full technical details of the design and construction of the LHC and it's six detectors (1589 pages, 115MB).
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posted to MetaFilter by alby
at 11:10 AM on August 25, 2008
(41 comments)
In a single 1931
document, electrical engineer
Alan Blumlein patented stereo records, stereo movie sountracks and surround sound. His equipment was used to make some of the
first stereo recordings at EMI's Abbey Road studios - several decades before the technology came into popular use. Blumlein went on to pioneer
405 line TV (the first wholly electronic format which won out over John Logie Baird's rival system) and to produce the equipment that made the
first outside TV broadcast possible. At the outbreak of World War 2 he was a key architect of the secret
H2S radar project. Unfortunately he was killed in a plane crash while testing the technology and the whole incident was kept secret. Hence he remains an obscure figure despite his achievements. A
recent BBC Radio 4 program contains a lot of the archive stereo footage and tells his story.
posted to MetaFilter by rongorongo
at 9:10 AM on August 7, 2008
(5 comments)
I have a PhD in astronomy, and am considering careers outside of academia or NASA. What other careers could I most naturally transition to? So far I have come up with Patent Agent/Lawyer or researcher at a think-tank like RAND. What are these jobs like, and how do you get them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pizzazz
at 10:20 PM on August 4, 2008
(6 comments)
Are there any good website where they analyze a movie thoroughly just as though you are in a film class (from cinematic, philosophical, psychological, etc. perspectives)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clueless22
at 8:26 AM on July 25, 2008
(7 comments)
What town in the United States has the lowest amount of detectable radio waves?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mdbell79
at 6:06 AM on July 17, 2008
(16 comments)
I have an embarrassingly parallel problem for which I currently have a working algorithm prototyped in a relatively high level language (
IDL). It's time I properly parallelised it however, and also rewrote it with something I can optimise a bit more easily. What languages and resources are available?
posted to Ask Metafilter by edd
at 5:25 AM on September 20, 2006
(10 comments)
What's a good real analysis textbook for a self-learner who doesn't have much of a pure math background?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pravit
at 9:50 PM on May 13, 2008
(12 comments)
what's this damn beeping noise coming from all the speakers in my life? And how should get rid of it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by alkupe
at 2:27 PM on November 13, 2007
(25 comments)
I eat oatmeal for breakfast pretty much every day. Help me build a bowl that is as jam-packed with nutrition as possible, while still tasty.
posted to Ask Metafilter by catlet
at 7:52 AM on April 9, 2008
(32 comments)
Mmmm... cheese. I went to a tapas restaurant the other day and one of the things we ordered was roasted chèvre — essentially a sticky warm blob of goat's milk cheese in a dish. The edges were brown, perhaps caramelized, and it tasted deliciously sweet. How do I make it? And do I need a butane torch to do it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gentle
at 9:44 AM on April 30, 2008
(14 comments)
Television military analysts are wooed, courted, and privileged by the Pentagon.
An in-depth investigative report by the
New York Times uncovers logrolling, shilling, touting, back-scratching, and just plain bias on the part of the experts that television networks put on the air to talk about the war. Some of them appear to be as good as owned by the Defense Department. "The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air. Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves."
posted to MetaFilter by Mo Nickels
at 6:32 PM on April 19, 2008
(37 comments)
Sound Comparisons
is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and
IPA transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a
handy Google map of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian,
Sound Comparisons is the site to go to.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:16 AM on March 5, 2008
(44 comments)
What are your favorite things to put on pasta (besides tomato sauce)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rev-
at 12:14 PM on March 3, 2008
(74 comments)
I was given a SLR camera for my birthday (yay!) and I am a complete novice in photography. I'd like to learn how to take decent pictures. Tips? Essential online readings? Forums?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sijeka
at 10:39 AM on November 12, 2007
(20 comments)
What lens to buy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by oxford blue
at 1:44 AM on January 30, 2008
(23 comments)
What's the best shortwave radio for someone on a budget?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Autarky
at 7:38 AM on November 29, 2007
(7 comments)
What modernist classical music should I listen to? I am a big fan of Sigur Ros, especially Takk and (), and I'd like to listen to something similar. I also like Amnesiac by Radiohead quite a bit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by KokuRyu
at 5:32 PM on November 25, 2007
(44 comments)
E8: what's in it for me? (inspired by
this post)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Quietgal
at 7:50 PM on November 16, 2007
(6 comments)
Kerouac's On The Road: The 50th Anniversary Of A Book I Had Not Read I can't be the only one whose impression of the book, from hearing about it but not actually reading it, was that it was about young, potent men, lost in a growing commercial society, two coiled springs ready to pop, looking for adventure-- America style. And this Road Trip that launched a thousand, other boring, useless road trips, was about young men looking to experience the world, really see, really live, really feel, free of the constraints of an artificial post war soulless society . . . That impression is wrong. You know what the book is really about? It's a primer on how to be a narcissist.
posted to MetaFilter by jason's_planet
at 7:46 AM on October 18, 2007
(136 comments)
John Stilgoe is a professor at Harvard who teaches his students how to, among other things,
mindfully observe the urban and suburban environments they inhabit.
posted to MetaFilter by jquinby
at 8:28 AM on October 11, 2007
(27 comments)
What kinds of music are hip French 19 year-olds (or any hip people for that matter) listening to? Who are some popular artists?
posted to Ask Metafilter by baserunner73
at 3:10 AM on October 4, 2007
(19 comments)
Please recommend some French websites.
posted to Ask Metafilter by spacewaitress
at 9:28 AM on September 18, 2007
(13 comments)
Algorithm.
JPEG compression explained.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 6:35 PM on September 11, 2007
(32 comments)
Has anyone taken an extended (one month+) trip to Iceland? What was your budget and what did you do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jacob
at 4:54 PM on August 14, 2007
(7 comments)
What is the most interesting* thing you can buy for $30-$50?
*(By my definition: non-consumable, long-lasting, functional.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by archagon
at 9:26 AM on May 18, 2007
(64 comments)
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