Google launches HealthMap and PlosMedicine article -- When a mechanics web-based project?
These type of projects are interesting, when a mechanics-based one?
An example of web-based projects
Use Google to search in iMechanica and send email to you
iMechanica has a search box, but its algorithm is less sophisticated than that of Google. You may wish to use Google to search content on iMechanica. For example, if you are looking for friction in iMechanica, type into the Google search box: friction site:imechanica.org
If instead you are only interested in rolling friction, then type into the Google search box: "rolling friction" site:imechanica.org. The quotation marks ensure that all the included words appear in search results.
Why is Google cool, but Elsevier is not?
Elsevier-bashing has become a sport among researchers. The company is singled out, among publishers of research journals, perhaps because it is the largest. We might as well use Elsevier as a representative of the publishers, and hard-working people at Elsevier should not be offended.
Nice Tips for Google Search Engine
In the current time computer and internet helps to everyone
in their daily routine. Thousand of people take help from search engine for
getting knowledge from internet per day. Mostly people use Google one of the
biggest search engine in the internet. As a Google user, you must aware about
the speed and accuracy of Google Search. How exactly Google search for the
particular word and give the right results in the front of the user. No doubt
Google is one of the most powerful search engines, and there is millions of
Google will videotape all Harvard classes and make them universally accessible
I wish that this thought had come to me earlier, so that I could have posted it on April First. No, I'm unaware of such a program. Instead, Harvard faculty have just emerged from a multi-year review of curriculum, and reaffirmed the commitment to liberal education, after voting out a president not too long ago.
A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Great Earthquake in Google Earth
The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 (one century ago today) ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Today, its importance comes more from the wealth of scientific knowledge derived from it than from its sheer size --it marked the dawn of modern science of earthquakes.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently provides a virtual tour utilizing the geographic interactive software Google Earth to explain the scientific, engineering, and human dimensions of this earthquake. This virtual tour can help you visualize and understand the causes and effects of this and future earthquakes.
Enjoy this virtual tour to explore how Google Earth (and other new softwares...) can facilitate and improve the way we teach and conduct research.
What can mechanics community learn from the success of Google?
A cartoon in The New Yorker magazine shows a boy asking his dad a question. The dad, reading a book, replies, “Go ask your search engine.” The cartoon was published in Feb. 2000, three months before Google officially became the world's largest search engine with its introduction of a billion-page index — the first time so much of the web's content was made searchable. If the boy asks again today, his dad will say, “Go ask Google.”
At $6 billion a year in revenue and $7.6 billion in cash, Google is a success. What’s more important to the rest of us, Google is running its business in a way that may change the world. Through its never-about-average products (i.e., Google search, Google Earth (and Mars too), Google Map, and more recently, Writely), Google is radically redefining the ways we obtain, organize, use, store, and share information.