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Here’s why these scientific projects are worth funding, cause even when it seems like they’re failures, they lead to new and useful discoveries.  Here’s the press release from 1999 talking about the imagine software. My favorite line is “Once digital cameras become more affordable, it might even be practical to use the system inside video recorders to stabilize and enhance images as they are recorded,” said Hathaway.” What do you think, have digital cameras become more affordable today? ;-)
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Here’s why these scientific projects are worth funding, cause even when it seems like they’re failures, they lead to new and useful discoveries. 

Here’s the press release from 1999 talking about the imagine software. My favorite line is “Once digital cameras become more affordable, it might even be practical to use the system inside video recorders to stabilize and enhance images as they are recorded,” said Hathaway.”

What do you think, have digital cameras become more affordable today? ;-)


Cigarettes & Science? Hmmm interesting combination indeed…. jtotheizzoe: Vintage Science Illustrations From the Inside of Cigarette Packs In the 1930’s, baseball cards weren’t the only collectible art that came in packs. Tobacco products also held such artistic gems. Max Cigarettes published a series on science and technology, recently digitized by the NYPL, including the above diagram of sound frequencies. Check out the rest at Brain Pickings!
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Cigarettes & Science? Hmmm interesting combination indeed….

jtotheizzoe:

Vintage Science Illustrations From the Inside of Cigarette Packs

In the 1930’s, baseball cards weren’t the only collectible art that came in packs. Tobacco products also held such artistic gems. Max Cigarettes published a series on science and technology, recently digitized by the NYPL, including the above diagram of sound frequencies.

Check out the rest at Brain Pickings!

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