Jan Wessnitzer

"Renowned Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, one of the world’s best-known scientists and science communicators, talked to EarthSky about where science is going. Wilson said he believes the 21st century will see profound advances in biology." - Jan Wessnitzer

"About 100 million years ago, a tiny mayfly had a problem" - Jan Wessnitzer

"From the usually boring Yahoo answers, we have this gem of a question:" - Jan Wessnitzer

Want! - Jan Wessnitzer

very impressive to say the least! - Jan Wessnitzer

"Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years." - Jan Wessnitzer

It's been a good week! - Jan Wessnitzer

"What comes to mind when you picture an average scientist? " - Jan Wessnitzer

"SILVIO BERLUSCONI has a lot to smile about. In his 74 years, he has created a media empire that made him Italy’s richest man. He has dominated politics since 1994 and is now Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Mussolini. He has survived countless forecasts of his imminent departure. Yet despite his personal successes, he has been a disaster as a national leader—in three ways." - Jan Wessnitzer

Impressed by the speed (done within two days) after first having been told that this wasn't possible at all... - Jan Wessnitzer

Normal service has been resumed :) - Jan Wessnitzer

Loch Lomond.... - Jan Wessnitzer

What's really annoying is that they refuse to admit their fuck-*p! - Jan Wessnitzer

;) - Jan Wessnitzer

"But the recent lab experiments are the first to confirm that cuttlefish use visual information to determine those gestures, according to Hanlon, of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts." - Jan Wessnitzer

"New Findings Hold Big Promise for Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases" - Jan Wessnitzer

"While there is a great number of libraries, source code and binaries for different algorithms, it is always difficult to get a good grasp of what they do. Moreover, one ends up spending a great amount of time just getting the algorithm to display the results in an understandable way. Change the algorithm and you will have to do the work all over again. Some people have tried, and succeeded, to combine several algorithms into a single multi-purpose library, making their libraries extremely useful (you will find many of their names in the acknowledgements below), but still they didn't solve the problem of visualization and ease of use. Matlab is an easy answer to that, but while extremely easy to use for generating and displaying single instances of data processing (data, results, models), Matlab is annoyingly slow and cumbersome when it comes to creating an interactive GUI. While preparing the exercice sessions for the Applied Machine Learning class at EPFL, I decided to combine the code snippets, example programs and libraries I had at hand into a seamless application where the different algorithms could be compared and studied easily." - Jan Wessnitzer

"Treehoppers, a small group of hemipteran insects related to cicadas, have evolved a peculiar morphological structure known as the helmet. It expands dorsally over most of the body length and has diversified to extremes within the family, conveying most of the treehoppers’ shape diversity (Fig. 1)." - Jan Wessnitzer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/program... - Jan Wessnitzer

an extract from a "Malcolm in the middle" episode on the subject of religion I watched yesterday..... - Jan Wessnitzer

in the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results - Jan Wessnitzer

(via Mr Gunn) - Jan Wessnitzer

Short movie : "A story about a boy, his robot and the consequences of his anger at the disintegration of his parents marriage." http://www.imdb.com/title... - Jan Wessnitzer

After playing with the data over the last few days, I must say that the location data is very noisy at best. Maybe it'll be less inaccurate when I switch the GPS services on.... this shall be the experiment for the next day or two. - Jan Wessnitzer

Hmm..your iPhone is basically recording my movements too then! - Jo Young