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Cleaning up the worlds oceans with the longest floating object in history

An ambitious new project is hoping to help clean the world’s oceans with a trash collector that is reportedly the longest floating structure in recorded world history. Back in 2013 TrueActivist reported that a 19-year-old developed a plan to clean up the world’s oceans in just 5 years, removing 7,250,000 tons of plastic. However, last…

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The Analog to Digital Conversion Process

Hi I am Arnold Greyling from Johannesburg in South Africa. This is my peer review assignment for week 2 of the Introduction To Music Production course at Coursera.org. I will be discussing the Analog to Digital Conversion Process. Introduction Analog to Digital conversion is converting a physical value (voltage) to a digital value that represents…

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More About Batteries

It has been ages since I wrote anything on this blog, mostly due to too much procrastination. In 2009 I wrote Battery Centre needs the Battery University. The amount of hits this post gets is way more than anything else on the blog. Most of us deal with re-chargeable batteries every day so I though…

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WordPress does LaTeX

While I was setting up another wordpress site today, I found out to my great surprise that WordPress can actually do markup by simply installing the jetpack plugin. For those that don’t know, is a computer typesetting system that really shines for difficult typesetting problems like mathematical formulas and scientific text. For more detail see…