What to do on a crazy busy day

… to make it more effective & get rid of the accumulating stress!?!

1. GET OFF WORK ON TIME!
2. Get sleep when sleepy after work.
3. Go to gym when recovered enough.
4. Sleep early.
5. Repeat.

Mathematicians and other scientists

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

Archimedes

Hieronymus Cardano

Cristophe (alias of Georges Colomb)

Denis Diderot

Leonhard Euler

Pierre de Fermat

Leonardo Fibonacci

James Garfield

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Christian Goldbach

Joseph Louis Lagrange

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

John Napier

Isaac Newton

Blaise Pascal

Pythagoras

Zenon

Greenhouse gas emissions trading in Europe and the world

• European emission unit trade volume around EUR 5 billion in 2005.
• Could grow several hundred percent by year 2010.
• Price has fluctuated heavily.

European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/emission.htm

International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) www.ieta.org

Pointcarbon www.pointcarbon.com

Cool tech and gadgets

Water-powered mobile phones www.cellular-news.com/story/18289.php 

Underwater MP3 player Listen while swimming! www.waterproofmusic.com/swimp3.html

Open source biotechnology www.tropicaldisease.org www.thesynapticleap.org/malaria www.cambia.org

Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI) http://ida.first.fraunhofer.de/bbci/index_en.html

DNA Computer http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/projects/the-smallest-biological-computing-device-ever-constructed.html

MAXFACTOR illume collagening water: cream or gel that turns into water when you rub it http://www.illume.com/ja_JP/index.html

Teleportation http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3811785.stm  http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/  http://www.its.caltech.edu/~qoptics/teleport.html

Near-infrared detector: recognizes a person by the veins in his or her palm http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/download/new-technologies/PalmSecure.pdf

Cleaning by supercritical CO2: non-toxic dry cleaning of clothes and a technique for next generation semiconductor industry (1) http://www.pprc.org/pubs/techreviews/co2/co2intro.html (2) http://www.reed-electronics.com/semiconductor/article/CA271877?pubdate=2%2F1%2F2003 Patented! http://www.bocedwards.com/r.cfm?a=news/nws_detail_5.cfm?article=207

Fuel cell car, for example GM AUTOnomy, Hy-wire and Sequel. Wired.com wrote of AUTOnomy ”It dispenses with just about everything that makes a car a car, such as the engine, transmission, steering wheel, and gas tank. Rather than spitting out carbon monoxide and other smog-causing gases, it emits nothing but water because it runs on hydrogen. With few moving parts, it will last for decades. It will generate more electricity than it uses and be equipped to apply the surplus to power the owner’s house.”  The steering system is wireless. Each wheel has its own fuel cell and can be controlled separately, which enables driving sideways… For a list of vehicles, see here http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/adv_tech/400_fcv/fact_sheets.html

Robots. Not my favourite subject until someone comes up with modular systems so you can assemble your own! Lego has… but still at toy level… unless the fall 2006 release of Mindstorms changes things http://mindstorms.lego.com/ What is needed are comprehensive and interoperable control interfaces, and programmability. Here one more robot, from KDDI http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/03/pirkus-r-the-bluetooth-bot/ And here the new Pleo dinosaur robot http://www.robots-dreams.com/2006/02/pleo_robot_dino.html  Robotic design http://www.brotron.com/

Astronomy

Circumference of the Earth: about 40,000 km.

Lets start from this piece of data :]

Will elaborate later

What is systems biology?

Interpreting and predicting whole-cell physiology brought about by a highly interconnected network of biochemical components. Quantitative methodology is needed.

Basic data is the genome datasets of various species.

Uses bioinformatic tools and computers.

Output: Open Reading Frames (ORF) and their approximate chromosomal location, function and associated regulatory sequences. Gene expression and regulation patterns of cells and tissues on genome scale. Protein expression, protein-protein interactions, metabolite concentrations.

ETC! Reading into this…

Some nice related animations here http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/units/genom/images.html