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Rogue Wave Prediction – MIT News
A new prediction tool developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them with enough time to shut down essential operations on a ship or offshore platform. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/YIAH6) Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Rogue wave simulation tool courtesy of Themis Sapsis/MIT Mechanical Engineering Vessel at sea footage courtesy of Bigwavemaster1 (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu26D…) Music sampled from, “New England is Interesting” by BOPD http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BOP… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Impossible Quasars Shatter Theory – Thunderbolts Project
A team of astronomers using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey observed quasars behaving in manner that completely upends conventional theory. Using images from the Pan-STARRS survey, the scientists identified 1000 objects that appeared to vary in brightness over a period of just 10 years. Among these objects were a total of five galaxies that the team witnessed shape-shifting into quasars in a seemingly impossibly short period of time. The team also recorded a total of a dozen quasars “shutting down” in a period of hundreds of days, rather than the hundreds of thousands of years required by standard theory. Given this situation, Dr. Tom Wilson explores some of the psychological…
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LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves – MIT News
After a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe. Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/ligo-first-d… Produced by MIT Video Productions and MIT News Office Producer/Editor: Bill Lattanzi Footage courtesy of: Hans Peter Bischof; California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; LIGO, A Passion for Understanding, by Kai Staats; MIT; National Science Foundation; Roger Smith; Virginia Trimble, widow of Joseph Weber; Wikipedia Commons Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Cheaper Alternative To Smart Windows – MIT News
MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted through a material, given its thickness and degree of stretch. Using this theory, they accurately predicted the changing transparency of a rubber-like polymer structure as it was stretched like a spring and inflated like a balloon. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/tune-polymer…) Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Music sampled from, “The Zeppelin” by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blu… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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One Step Closer To Fusion Power – MIT News
For the first time, researchers show two types of turbulence within plasma that cause significant heat loss. Solving this problem could take the world a step closer to fusion power which has the promise of limitless and relatively clean energy. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/XmrC3) Video produced and edited: Melanie Gonick/MIT Plasma simulations and Alcator C-Mod footage: Nathan Howard/MIT PSFC and J. Candy/General Atomics Music sampled from “Rewound” by Chris Zabriskie http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chr… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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A Life-Saving Discovery at MIT – MIT News
A “failed experiment” became a life-saving discovery by MIT Professor Ioannis V. Yannas and his colleague Dr. John Burke when their search for a better way to treat severe burn victims led to the discovery of organ regeneration — thought impossible by the scientific and medical communities at the time — as well as a brand new field of medicine. Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Controlling The Boiling Process – MIT News
For the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control the boiling process. The system could improve the efficiency of electric power generation and other processes. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/TRIQl) Turning boiling on and off on a surface with separately addressable electrodes to the tune of Ode to Joy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pf8g… Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional imagery courtesy of the researchers Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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A Pill That Can Measure Vital Signs – MIT News
Using technology invented at MIT, doctors may one day be able to monitor patients’ vital signs by having them swallow an ingestible electronic device that measures heart rate and breathing rate from within the gastrointestinal tract. (Learn more about the sensor:http://news.mit.edu/2015/ingestible-s…) Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT Device animation: Diana Saville, Albert Swinston and Giovanni Traverso Device photo courtesy of Albert Swinston/MIT Lincoln Laboratory Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Predicting Bedrock Weathering Based On Topography – MIT News
Buried just beneath the Earth’s surface, beneath roots and soil, is the solid bedrock of Earth’s crust. Weathering of bedrock is essential to life on Earth. Now scientists have found a way to predict the depth and extent of bedrock weathering given a location’s topography. (Learn more:http://mitsha.re/U0OX2) Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional imagery and videos: Stephen Martel, Seulgi Moon and Taylor Perron Music sampled from “After Midnight” by Maxim Komyshev http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Max… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Google Tries To Stifle Political Expression
Originally Published By Club Of Info. Concerns continue to prevail that Google may be pulling advertising features from “hot” videos and other content on politically “sensitive” subjects. Evidence of such concerns in the blogging community can be found at lone wolf publications such as StormCloudsGathering and Representative Press. A video from StormCloudsGathering goes through the issue, as embedded below. StormCloudsGathering notes that challenging the mainstream narrative often results in a sudden loss of advertising features that normally appeared with the video content. Representative Press, for its part, made much the same points. YouTube states that it reserves a right to “suspend monetization feature” on videos for a number of potential violations,…
