Asteroid impacts: How to avert Armageddon

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/02/asteroid-impacts     / threats posed space rocks meteor meteorite asteroids hit Earth risk impact crater shock wave  passed overhead blew out windows injured hundreds of people 2012 DA14 zipping past Earth inside orbit some man-made satellites astronomers strikes NASA America's space agency watching the sky rock orbits bring them close to Earth near-Earth object NEO track tracking tracked down around 90% of the very biggest NEOs planet killers a kilometre or more across wiped out dinosaurs 7-10km heavyweights are smaller less dangerous damage hit town city hard harder to spot NEO-detection detection Japanese Space Agency universities ask for more money to expand their search researchers, meanwhile pondering what to do if an asteroid is detected that is indeed on a collision course with Earth blast dangerous asteroid apart using nuclear weapons doomsday scenario fracture large asteroid into several smaller ones 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty bans nuclear explosions in space The European Space Agency  mission called Don Quijote large heavy spacecraft to ram an asteroid out of the way send sending a rocket engine to an asteroid could work if the asteroid in question was relatively small and was detected with plenty of time to spare proposal paint one side of an asteroid in light or dark colours, tweaking its trajectory via a neat bit of physics called the Yarkovsky effect that describes the way in which sunlight gives celestial bodies a gentle push gravity tractor in orbit around an asteroid, and relying on its gravity to tug the rock gently out of the way /

Does watching TV lower your sperm count?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2013/02/15/ncbi-rofl-does-watching-tv-lower-your-sperm-count/#.USCZT_1hiK0     / physical activity television watching viewing semen quality in young men has declined over the past decades reasons unresolved concurrent increase in sedentary behaviour behavior  contributing factor  evaluate relationship physical activity television TV watching sperm parameters population young healthy men Rochester Young Men’s Study participated analysis physical activity hours per week of moderate vigorous exercise assessed via questionnaire semen quality was assessed by sperm concentration motility morphology total sperm count directly related to physical activity after multivariable adjustment /

The beautiful thing that happens when you project video onto falling snow (video)

Credit: Brian Maffitt/The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-beautiful-thing-that-happens-when-you-project-video-onto-falling-snow/273049/     / snow fell Chestnut Ridge New York brilliant idea project movie falling flakes screen camera Canon EOS 7D upstairs window pine tree dark backdrop started filming greatest color saturation music stock options Final Cut Pro video editor /

Visual tour: From abacus to iPod

Nordsieck's Differential Analyzer • an analog computer
Credit: Computer History Museum/ ComputerWorld

http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/22547#slide1     / abacus punch cards Herman Hollerith machine analog computer Nordsieck's Differential Analyzer computer ENIAC Univac Mainframe IBM System /360 360 disk disc drive The IBM RAMAC 350 Supercomputer Cray-1 Cray 1 Minicomputer DEC PDP-8 PDP 8 digital logic Moore's Moore law input output Xerox Alto computer graphics music art Utah Teapot mouse pointing device graphic games Pong Personal computer IBM PC MS DOS mobile computing Palm Pilot Networking Web spaghetti wires /

BiteMyApple.co is the one-stop shopping location for successful Kickstarter projects

That's successful, Apple compatible, Kickstarter projects.

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/02/16/bitemyapple-co-is-the-one-stop-shopping-location-for-successful-kickstarter-projects/     / funding period pledge purchase it Internet store  products Apple gear at least compatible with it iPhone iPads cases stands Bluetooth accessories to stylus styli camera accessories /

Apple hires a television expert from LG Display

So, why would Apple employ an expert in TV displays?

Apple television?

http://gigaom.com/2013/02/08/apple-snags-a-television-expert-from-lg-display/     / OLED Association James (Jueng-jil) Lee LG researcher expert television displays expert in flat panel industry group display research fellow  printed organic light-emitting diode OLED based television expert LCD production started new LCD product lines Samsung LCD research efforts intense interest action TV /

The future of search is gravitational: Content will come to you

http://gigaom.com/2013/02/07/the-future-of-search-is-gravitational-content-will-come-to-you/     / semantic search knowledge graphs surfacing information related keyword searches working make relevant content come to us anticipatory computing information gravitation future of search next-generation applications surface information we need semantic element search relevant content appear before your eyesWeb what to look for attention Christopher Eakins, CEO Grapple Data revolutionize desktop search flagship product Aikin similar to semantic search list of files, emails, contacts or other content ranked by relevance standard keyword search wouldn’t detect /

25 best Cydia Apps for iOS 6 (video)

https://www.gottabemobile.com/best-cydia-apps-for-ios-6-jailbreak-apps/     / evasi0n iOS 6 jailbreak users tweak customize jailbroken iPhone iPad iPod Touch iOS 6.1 5 Auxo Apple Switcher shows card each open app FullForce iPhone 5 larger screen full screen f.lux color colour temperature IntelliscreenX lock screen Notification Center Facebook Twitter News lockscreen without unlocking LowPower Banner annoying low battery popups Nitrous Safari load pages faster other speed up Chrome  /