Hey guys. Hope everyone's having
a great weekend thus far and you're all able to squeeze all the goodness out of
the unofficial End of Summer here in North America. It's now just barely over a
week until I defend my master's thesis, so family visits and barbeques have
been interspersed with studying, notecrafting, and more studying. Woot! As a
break from said studying, let's get down to The Week in Geekdom!
Science/Technology
Elon Musk, he of Tesla, SpaceX, and Hyperloop
fame, seems to be on a personal quest to become Tony Stark. Check out his comments regarding the drafting process for his latest crop of rockets. Seem
familiar?
It's taken 78 years, but we may
finally get to know whether Schrodinger's cat is alive or dead. Physicist Art
Hobson attempts to offer a solution to this famous quandry in the latest
edition of Physical Review.
The most recent issue of the
journal Naturwissenschaften tells the tale of how a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh used the fossils of
ancient bean weevils to refine the date of the cataclysmic "Atlantis"
eruption.
In the realm of "not sure if
this is awesome or terrifying", researchers at the University of
Washington performed what is believed to be the first non-invasive
brain-to-brain interface with human minds. Read here for the science and the
amazing video of the procedure.
In 1964 famed science fiction
author Isaac Asimov made a series of predictions about what life would be like
in the year 2014. See just how spot-on some of these were.
Experts in the semiconductor
industry proclaim that their governing dicta, Moore's Law, is on the cusp of
becoming inapplicable. Here's why.
Games
Remember those old game
cartridges that you managed to squirrel away from your little sibling or your
parents' threats to toss them in the trash? You might want to consider digging
them up. Turns out there's quite a market out there for them.
If you were thinking of picking
up a copy of Final Fantasy XIV this week you were probably left disappointed.
Publisher Square Enix put a temporary ban on digital sales of the game after
their servers were nearly fried tending to the
much-more-massive-than-anticipated initial player load.
Clearly EA needs to be sent home,
for it is either drunk or far more incompetent than we realized. The iOS
version of the newest Sim City title
was released to the Mac-using world on Thursday. You can probably guess just how well that went.
Movies
After years of setbacks and
general administrative bruhaha, the World of Warcraft movie is set to begin filming in January of 2014.
Comics
Wednesday was Jack Kirby day and
here's the memorial tribute that the guys at American Barbarian put together.
General Awesomeness
Check out this incredible photo series that aims to capture the raw destructive power of atmospheric storm
cells.
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