Tag Archive for 'science'

How to Predict the Weather Without a Forecast?

Nowadays we check weather forecast on TV, on the Internet or even using a WII. But if we were alone in an island, the tips described in this wikihow article would be useful. Found via haha.

Rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accross the globe

In the TED presentation below, Dr Dean Ornish provides some insight about the rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accros the globe.

On “C” computer language efficiency

Mark C. Chu-Carroll  of Good Math published an interesting post on “C” language efficiency. He demonstrates that C or C++ are not the more efficient languages for numerical calculations like computational fluid dynamics. He takes the alias detection example: C or C++ compiler are unable to identify if two variables might be referencing the same [...]