Posts in Science

Learning to Code This Code Year

Feel like upping your geekiness level this year? If you are not a software developer and just want to add something geeky to your resume, then you’d probably love the idea of signing up for Code Year. So just how does signing up for Code Year up your geekiness level? Code Year participants, who are [...]

Posted by Hannah at 5:36 pm

Anyone Feel Like a Free Stanford and MIT Education?

There may be all kinds of geeks, but there’s one thing all geeks have in common – a love for learning (at least in their area of interest). So what can be more fun than signing up for some free classes from two of the world’s best Universities – Stanford and MIT? That’s right, while [...]

Posted by Hannah at 9:35 pm

Meet Australia’s New Supercomputer

Computer geeks around the world are now drooling over the recently launched supercomputer in Australia. Forget the supercomputers that you see in the movies or read about in the books. This one is the best of them all – at least according to the people behind the project. The new supercomputer is known as the [...]

Posted by noemi at 9:54 am

Hitachi develops visceral fat technology

Here’s something geek doctors will take interest in. Hitachi has developed a new fat simulation technology that can “simulate” visceral fat. This is shown through cross section images of the abdomen. Visceral fat, the fats that are found inside our abdomen and peritoneal cavity are usually hard to see with present medical equipment. The technology [...]

Posted by gecko at 2:15 pm

Kaku is a physic rock star

One of my personal heroes is theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. I think he’s one of the rock stars of Physics world. His ideas on string theory, M theory and all of the other esoteric branches of physics just beggar my imagination. I’m such a big fan that I try to collect as many of his [...]

Posted by gecko at 8:38 am