No maps for these territories

Tonight I went to a nice talk about particle physics, and observational scale: the idea that how we observe something, and at what scale, changes what we see. A simple idea, fundamental to art and science, often forgotten in other areas. I am fond of the human scale, myself. If I am honest about my [...]

google maps + usgs data + clever programmers = the earthquake map, where you can see what earthquakes happened worldwide yesterday or last week, and their magnitude. very, very cool. http://cse.ucdavis.edu/holliday/Quakes/ general conclusion: there’s a LOT of quakes that go on.