Posts Tagged ‘Models’

London’s Natural History Museum relies too heavily on gimmicks | Martin Robbins

Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Animatronics and models are no substitute for real exhibits and real science, which are mostly hidden from public view My favourite museum in the world isn't big or particularly fancy. The Red Cross Museum in Geneva is in a quiet part of the city, contains only a handful of exhibits and would fit in one of the Natural History Museum's bars; but what it lacks in scale it makes up for in power ...

Leona Palmer: The Long Run: Plus Models Run for Charity

Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen: I have just completed my first straight-up, uninterrupted 20-minute run, including a warm-up and cool down, I did 4 out of 5k....

For that fabulous sculpted body, the Bowflex makes a good coat rack

Monday, September 13th, 2010
Despite the buff models and the elevated claims in the ads, the Bowflex is a poor substitute for free weights, a sensible diet and like-minded friends. The people in the Bowflex commercials sure are pretty.

Enterprise Architecture: Vast Promise or Lost Opportunity?

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Coming to you from The Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Boston, we've assembled a panel this week to delve into the advancing role and powerful potential for enterprise architecture. The economy's grip on IT budgets and the fast-changing sourcing models like cloud computing are pointing to a reckoning for EA.

Nanoshell structures: Self-assembly method yields materials with unique optical properties

Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials. Much as a child might use Lego blocks to build 3-D models of complex buildings or vehicles, the scientists are using the new chemical self-assembly ...