Sunday, 23 September 2012

Tuned pendulum

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This web page  http://www.chcp.org/seismo.html describes the mechanism inside the ancient first seismometer (see this post) of the first c...
Saturday, 22 September 2012

The world's first seismometer was Chinese

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Who was the inventor of the first siesmometer?  Zhang Heng. He was  (AD 78–139) a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer,...
Thursday, 20 September 2012

Una cosa importante

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Una cosa che è importante sapere per la  carriera universitaria degli studenti di Ingegneria è quanto scritto al link http://apply.polito....

Nuovo campus a Torino

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A Torino c'è un nuovo campou! "I l Campus Luigi Einaudi aprirà le sue porte il 22 settembre con una grande festa a partire dalle 1...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Carlo Promis e l'antica Torino

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Carlo Promis e l’antica Torino, di Amelia Carolina Sparavigna,  Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino,  C.so...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Rumors

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Higgs Bosons Rumors: Hopes that Cern scientists have found the Higgs Boson were strengthened yesterday when rival American researchers annou...
Friday, 29 June 2012

Piccole oscillazioni...

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"Researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo test a new theory that suggests how ancient Easter Islanders may have used ropes to “walk” the mo...
Friday, 22 June 2012

Alan Turing

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Google celebrates the 100th birthday of a computer genius, Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) with a doodle. He is the founde...
Thursday, 21 June 2012

Silicene

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Silicene pops out of the plane - physicsworld.com "Researchers in Japan say that they have made 2D honeycomb crystals of silicon that ...
Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Ancient Rainfall, Carved in Stone

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"Stalactites grow from cave ceilings not as dull cones but often sporting elegant corrugations. In  Physical Review Letters , two Itali...