Updated with correct video. I’ve always wanted to say that. Just watch:
Human Birdwings
Category: General
MIT Seeing Around Corners
Via Popular Science: Back in late 2010, MIT Media Lab announced that it was working on technology that would allow a camera to see around corners and image objects that were never in its direct line of sight. Now, the lab has released a video explaining exactly how they do this and showing the technology in action. Briefly, the system works by firing rapid femtosecond laser pulses–pulses so short they are measured in quadrillionths of a second–at a surface opposite the obscured object it is trying to image, like the wall opposite a doorway for instance. The laser light bounces off the wall and scatters. Some of that light hits the target object and likewise scatters. And some of that light ends up bouncing
Slow Blogging
Blogging will be slow over the course of the next week. I’m on spring break with some classmates from MIT and decided not to bring a laptop. I’m planning to read a few books, and put a dent in The Wire series. I might try and post a few things from my iPad, but we’ll see. I’ve queued a few posts up, but otherwise, see you in April.
An Ostrich Plays Tag With A Baby Giraffe
Via Ezra Klein:
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Lake Nakuru Photos
First shots from Kenya, around Lake Nakuru:
Final Shots from India
More from Udaipur, and a few shots from Mumbai and Goa:
India Photography
Some shots from Agra and Jaipur:
Smaller Markets in Rajasthan
Note: This blog post was originally published on the MIT Public Service Center website. It’s the eighth post in a blog series sharing findings from a research project I’m working on throughout the month of January. January 23, 2012 Paul Artiuch and Sam Kornstein are graduate students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Throughout the month of January they are in India researching market-oriented approaches to reducing agricultural food waste. They will be sharing their project scope and some of their findings in this blog series. Earlier this month, we visited Azadpur Mandi, the largest wholesale produce market in Asia. We found that while the marketplace is extraordinarily chaotic, it’s actually quite efficient, and little food goes to waste
More on Azadpur Mandi
Note: This blog post was originally published on the MIT Public Service Center website. It’s the second post in a blog series sharing findings from a research project I’m working on throughout the month of January. January 10, 2012 Paul Artiuch and Sam Kornstein are graduate students at the Sloan School of Management. Throughout the month of January they are researching market-oriented approaches to reducing agricultural food waste in India. They will be sharing their project scope and some of their findings in this blog series. Soon after arriving in Delhi, we took a walk over to a local market and spoke with a man who runs the community produce stand. We asked him where he buys his fruits and vegetables. “I