October 2006

Rice’s single-pixel camera takes high-res images

Using some new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with hundreds of thousands of mirrors the size of a single bacterium, engineers at Rice University have come up with a camera that captures just one point of light several thousand times in rapid succession.

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A List of the Most Used IM Acronyms

For those of us that are not IM inclined, AIM has made a list of the most used acronyms and what they stand for. They even include some really strange ones, like BICBW, IMPOV, and OTOH. Want to know what they meen? Check out the list!

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India Digs Deeper, but Wells Are Drying Up

With a driving need to boost agricultural production, Indians are tapping their groundwater faster than nature can replenish it… continue reading

  

Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry

In modern times we have abandoned local artisanal processing in favor of factory and industrial processing, which actually destroys the nutrients in food rather than increasing them, and makes our food more difficult to digest rather than more digestible. Furthermore, industrial processing depends upon products that have a negative impact

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