Arquivo para a ‘Calm Technology’ Categoria
The three weeks of COP 21
13
Nov
The three weeks of the opening of the Paris conference, already held the Pre-COP,
attended by about 70 countries and chaired by Manuel Pulgar Vidal – Minister of Peru’s environment and president of COP20, the previous conference.
On the agenda were four central themes: the ambition of the agreement, its equity, the concrete actions to be taken before 2020 and the financing to be mobilized after 2020.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Laurent Fabius, who is the president of cop21, showed the press the main objectives of this preparatory ministerial meeting.
Laurent Fabius said: “” We have had to the pre-COP an important step before Paris, but we are more than ever and mobilize the task that remains is considerable, “summed up in the press conference.
Brazil although the has a bold proposal for contribution in INDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution , the acronym in English), which would be 43% (the official website of the event registers 37%) involve illegal deforestation, reforesting 12 million hectares the recovery of 15 million degraded pastures and integration of 5 million hectares of crops, livestock and forests.
But we have in Brazil an extremely dirty matrix (hydroelectric being privatized and expensive nuclear power plants already tried to hang), and goals here are not serious, see the goals of economy and respect for labor achievements
Internet of Things in practice
05
Nov
Three solutions demonstrate how to use in practice the second IoT
(Internet of Things) Gateways Solutions, publican in the IDGNOW online magazine.
The first is the automation climates in homes, Automated Greenhouse Climate Control, built using multiple systems, depends on the minimum of human intervention, the system called Edge Analytics allows the climate control of a fully autonomous greenhouse allowing maximum convert both for plants, like animals and people, the conversation between the computers systems is made from results of Cloud Analytic and communication through Secure API, aiming to maximize production gain and comfort with monitoring and adjusting indoor climate, decreasing in the case of production costs.
The second is being presented today at the Transport fair Telematics & Fleet Management, which is software installed on trucks which makes it possible in addition to monitoring and position of the vehicle, perform real-time diagnostics of machine condition and can warn the driver and provide maintenance preventive vehicle, equipment Secure API is responsible for collecting, exchanging and sharing data of truck fleet with the center.
The third is a system for smart homes, called Yoga Smart Home, which connects to almost anything: Security detectors wired or wireless, cameras, thermometers, sockets and intelligent lights, entertainment systems, locks and appliances, enabling monitoring of devices from connecting to the internet.
COP21 and G7
30
Oct
The cop21 and G7 Warm weather (at least in Brazil), heats up the race 
for COP21, the Paris Conference on Climate Change, but the G7 wants to cool all, the club of the 7 richest nations in the world.
According to a study, which involved the Brazilian rooted in Switzerland, Marcia Rocha, which the G7 is proposing will not serve to stop the 2 degrees Celsius that greenhouse gas emissions will lead to the planet by 2030, the target will have accomplished something around 30 % of needed as inform the Centre’s Climate brazilian blog.
Analyses of Climate Analitics show that following the combined current policies, only achieve 5% of the “ambition gap” Canada a member of G & said with the target for 2020 would be increased by 35% the so-called INDC (Contributions Nationally Certain Intended) compared to 1990.
The report proposes three recommendations to the G7: significantly increase the ambition of their INDCs here to the Paris conference in December; to strengthen the current targets, the shear stress becomes smaller after 2020; arguing that review cycles of the new agreement targets are five years, not ten, to prevent unambitious goals end up running for a long time.
While the big mobilize, social networks too, around the world there will be demonstrations, in Brazil there is already a call by the networks in a demonstration for the 29th of November.
Technologies that can change our lives
27
Oct
Many things can impact our lives and change the way the market and even
people behave, it is the case with many technologies, but there is still something to happen.
3D printers, grew 35% since 2011, the figures were moved around US $ 1.7 billion is over $ 3 billion this year and could reach 6.5 billion by 2019, according to assessment of Alliance Bernstein, and this may affect up to production mode.
Already posted here that Skype will be doing translations online in an attempt to compete in a space filled increasingly by WhatsApp, the sense of citizenship world will increase with this and the global village will becoming a homeland-world, as predicted Edgar Morin .
The company Joule Biotechnologies instead of using organic matter, we must stop the organic production for fuels unfortunately is the case of sugarcane and corn, are trying to accomplish genetic modification to photosynthetic organisms that use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into ethanol and diesel which is carbon, and oxygen (C02). This may change the supply chain that depends on fossil fuels.
A changing world depends on the technology and they can and should affect human life, but of course, all decisions are taken by men (and women).
“Red carpet” for Mazzaropi
26
Oct
To time to understand the true history and identity of Brazil, we should look beyond the harsh reality that almost
became a miracle, but not turned, studying almost unknown characters from literature and history of Brazilian cinema.
I watched almost by chance, a night in Hotel in Brazilian Northeast, the film Tapete Vermelho (Red Carpet), which tells the story of Quinzinho (Matheus Nachtergaele) who wants to fulfill the promise to take your child, and grudgingly also Zulmira (Gorete miracle, famous because: oh Poor) to see a Mazzaropi film.
The journey will the hinterland who live through ever larger cities, and go see the movie theaters turn into shops, bakeries, churches and facing curious and magical situations, a tribute to Mazzaropi, parading the culture of the common people of Brazil.
The film directed by Luiz Alberto Pereira, production Ivan Teixeira and Vicente Miceli, has yet beautiful music of Renato Teixeira is 2006 and should not have been overlooked.
The boy who played the son Neco, Vinicius Miranda was chosen at a selection of over 200 children, and the cast had the support of Taubaté theater groups and São Paulo.
Late congratulations! Worth seeing not only the actors, but the “Brazilian landscape”.
USP conducts a “Scientific Turn”
17
Oct
With over 300 free activities, today and tomorrow (17 and 18/10) the first edition
of Scientific Turn (Virada Científica) na upset held this year 2015.
The event is a partnership between the Dean of Culture and University Extension (PRCEU) and the Ministry of Science of Brazil, Technology and Innovation will offer, within 24 hours.
According to Eduardo Cooli, general big news event coordinator is in Praça do Relógio (Clock Square), located in center of University City, with circus workshops and performances starring the Circusp, with the intention of creating a larger movement in this square which is quite central.
There shall also Ciencidade Stage, where there will be some attractions like “Do skate the visual arts”, “Cancer: learn to control” and others.All eight USP units will have activities: São Carlos, Bauru, Pirassununga and Lorraine in the capital are included units of EACH (School Of Arts, Science and Humanities) and the Casa de Dona Yaya.
I will be giving a lecture on “Operation and peculiarities of Social Networks” the 17 hours in the Geoscience Institute at 17 hours.
Addicted to digital technology
15
Oct
Most people often confuse the fact that there are people addicted to technology,
with the fact that digital technology is a new kind of “drug” that infected everyone.
There are very simple ways to diagnose and combat addiction to technology, explains the medical Nerina Ramlakhan, specialist in energy and techniques to cool sleeping Nightingale Hospital in London, told BBC News.
He explained by saying that this is for people who can not turn off the same gadgets before bed:. “So you live in survival mode Your sympathetic nervous system is working in forced pace I suppose you feel miserable afternoon what. means that your body is acting on the basis of epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol, “then you really are hooked.
The profile of patients is almost always the same: perfectionism tendency to want to control everything and bruxism (teeth grinding while sleeping).
One of the self-radicas forms is receiving continuous doses of dopamine, a hormone released in the brain by the hypothalamus, thus improves motivation, increases the heartbeat, improves mood, better able to process information and more sleep, explained Dr. Ramlakhan .
She recommends four simple steps recipe to control this addiction:
– Creating a “sunset electronic” go away electronic devices, for example, read a book (not electronic).
– Keep the clock away overnight, not to tell time with this avoids the type anxieties: I have to sleep, I can not relax, etc.
– Do not use your smartphone as an alarm clock, recharge healthy energy: have breakfast, but in half an hour after waking prefer other beverage to coffee.
– Keep yourself hydrated at least two liters of water a day.
Of course, the important thing is to use technology only necessary and avoid “technology fatigue”.
Brazilian participate physical experience
29
Sep
An experiment that made mass precise measurements of particles and electric
charges, made in with ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), the detector of heavy ions in the Large Hadron Collider ring (LHC), confirmed the existence of a fundamental symmetry in nature, the result was published in Nature on 17 August this year.
The researchers include Brazilian researchers associated with the University of São Paulo (USP) and the University of Campinas (Unicamp), including Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz, professor at the Institute of Physics at USP (IF) who explained:
“After the Big Bang, for each particle of matter an antiparticle was created. In particle physics, an important question is whether all the laws of physics exhibit a specific type of symmetry known as CPT [charge, parity and time] and these measurements suggest that there is indeed a fundamental symmetry between cores and antinuclear “, the apparent asymmetry between matter and antimatter is one of the biggest problems without physical solution.
The power loss measurements on the projection time chamber allow the ALICE experiment to identify antinúcleos (curved upper left) and nuclei (curved upper right) produced in collisions of lead ions in the LHC (in picture).
Munhoz is the principal investigator of the research project “high-energy nuclear physics at RHIC and LHC”, supported by the Research Foundation of São Paulo (FAPESP).
