Google LatLong: A new frontier for Google Maps: mapping the indoor...

Perdido no aeroporto? Pouco tempo pra conexao entre voos e voce nao sabe onde ir? Que tal pedir ajuda ao Google LatLong no seu celular? Veja mais informacoes e videos no blog oficial do Google:

Google LatLong: A new frontier for Google Maps: mapping the indoor...: (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog ) “Where am I?” and “What’s around me?” are two questions that cartographers, and Google Maps, strive to answer. With Google Maps’ “My Location” feature, which shows your location as a blue dot, you can see where you are on the map to avoid walking the wrong direction on city streets, or to get your bearings if you’re hiking an unfamiliar trail. Google Maps also displays additional details, such as places, landmarks and geographical features, to give you context about what’s nearby. And now, Google Maps for Android enables you to figure out where you are and see where you might want to go when you’re indoors.

Scotch pancakes with banana & maple syrup recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

Before leaving Scotland, I thought I should learn how to make Scottish pancakes, one of my favourites! They are so yummy... The recipe I got from the BBC site is great and I am sharing it here.
Small suggestions are: use self-raising flour and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes before frying; add different flavours to it if you feel adventurous, such as cinnamon or something savoury.

Scotch pancakes with banana & maple syrup recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

Ingredients

• 125g flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• 300ml milk
• butter , for frying
• 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
• 4 bananas
• maple syrup , to serve

Method

1. Put the flour, baking powder, egg, milk and sugar in a large jug then whiz with a hand-held blender until smooth (or just whisk together in a bowl).
2. Heat a non-stick frying pan (add a little butter if you need) and pour in small amounts of batter. Once the top of the pancake has bubbled and set, flip with a palette knife and cook on the other side. Repeat until all the batter is used.
3. Stack the pancakes in a pile, slice the bananas and add to the plate. Drizzle with maple syrup and serve with Greek yoghurt or vanilla ice cream and extra maple syrup.

Per serving

182 kcalories, protein 4.3g, carbohydrate 34.4g, fat 3.9 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 1g, salt 0.3 g

Recipe from olive magazine, December 2005.

Fish

Fish: Add a touch of nature to your page with these hungry little fish. Watch them as they follow your mouse hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water.

Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks - life - 05 September 2011 - New Scientist

Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks - life - 05 September 2011 - New Scientist

Quantum physics as the whole quantum theory is something fascinating. In this New Scientist article, Mark Buchanan discusses how quantum logic can be applied in other areas of knowledge. The whole issue of contextuality has a lot to do with so many other areas such as language, learning, knowledge exchange... As Diederick Aerts, a physicist at the Free University of Brussels said: "The structure of human conceptual knowledge is quantum-like because context plays a fundamental role." Quantum theory defies the ordinary logic, with particles frequently occupying two or more places at the same time... Hurray! Quantum theory may help us free ourselves from the constraints and limitations of the old traditional logic and its consequent limitations. Exciting times where new ideas and possibilities can flourish...

Friends of the Earth: The Big Green Bike Ride

6-11 May 2012

• Cycle London to Edinburgh
• 500 miles in six days
• Go the distance or join in for a day (eg London to Cambridge)

This will certainly be good fun and for a great cause: raising money for Friends of the Earth.

Friends of the Earth: The Big Green Bike Ride

Our Planning Course is the 1st in Scotland and the 5th in the UK!

The School of the Built Environment at the Heriot-Watt University was very successful in the National Students' Survey. The results published today show:

• our Planning (Urban Studies) course is the first in Scotland and fifth in the whole of the United Kingdom.
• Civil Engineering is the first in Scotland and fourth in the UK. 
• Building (Construction Management) is the second in Scotland and 8th in the UK. Architectural Engineering is the 2nd in Scotland and twenth in the UK.

Great to know that our Urban Studies students are happy with the courses. :-)

Mies van der Rohe - Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)

A very good documentary although I don't agree with everything Robert Hughes says, especially about the New National Gallery (Neue Nationalgalerie) in Berlin.