Women banned from wearing trousers in Paris... Nov 18, 2009
Random Noise on November 18, 2009 at 07:24 AM. "It's not 1950. Pants aren't political. Move forward." They HAVE moved forward. (The Drudge Report)
Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way's Center? Nov 4, 2009
"If our model [for microwave production] were correct, we would have random noise left over," Finkbeiner says. "Instead, we see a pattern, an excess of microwaves in the inner galaxy.". (Scientific American)
Why People Believe in Conspiracies Sep 11, 2009
In previous columns I have provided partial answers, citing patternicity (the tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise) and agenticity (the bent to believe the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents). Conspiracy theories connect the dots of random events into meaningful patterns and then infuse those patterns with intentional agency. (Scientific American)
Media processor aims to clean up Web, mobile video Jul 23, 2009
For example, the chip's StreamClean processing reduces or eliminates blocking artifacts as well as so-called temporal or random noise and mosquito noise that blurs the edges of objects. The Vida chip also sports updated resolution enhancement algorithms for improving video resolution from PC-class to standard definition or from SD to high def. (EETimes)
Electronic Voice Phenomena Mar 18, 2009
Are EVPs Ghostly Voices Captured on Recording Devices. Are EVPs emanating from beyond the grave from souls who are trying to contact humans. (Suite101.com)
First Responders: Random Antenna Arrays Boost Emergency Communications Mar 11, 2009
(June 26, 2006) Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the. (Science Daily)
Music: Home life with mikes: A jazz history Feb 25, 2009
Smith recorded hours of random noise, broadcasts, the comings and goings of the place. But because his fellow residents included Overton, the pianist Dick Cary and the painter David X. Young, he also got a cross section of jazz culture at a dynamic time. (International Herald Tribune)
