Herbaceous Border for Your Garden

Popularly known in the United Kingdom, the herbaceous borders are used in gardens in the Victorean era. This is a collection of soft-stemmed or non-woody perennials arranged together. This is done in order to create a dramatic effect to the garden in different colors and shapes.

Image Source

In US the term perennial border is used for this. A British 20^th century garden designer and a prolific writer, Gertrude Jekyll, has written books on herbaceous borders. Thus he popularized the use of these borders for gardens through a revival of the British cottage garden.

Image Source

Image Source

To create herbaceous borders it takes a lot of hardwork. It is because the perennials have to be dug up regularly every 3-4 years. They need to be divided to keep the bed clean and control the growth of plants. But for the beauty they add to gardens it is worth the effort!

Image Source

Tweet

Read more!

Treasure Hunt in the Atlantic Ocean for Gold Coins

The recent treasure hunt in the Atlantic Ocean resulted in the discovery of a shipwreck. This contained huge number of gold and silver coins packed in containers. The Odyssey Marine Exploration owns the credit and its stock price already went up by 81 percent on Friday May 18, to $8.32. Historians say that the ship contained nine tons of gold coins and was going to buy the loyalty of the Duke of Savoy, a potential ally in southeastern France. Odyssey believes those coins could also fetch more than $500 million.

Image Source

Image Source

There are hundreds of plastic containers which contain a total of 500,000 coins. They say that each coin may value $1000 or more from collectors and investors. But it depends on the particular coin, its rarity and other factors. But they say that these coins are not available currently. They did not report the place the shipwreck as it would create security problems.

Image Source

Odyssey says that they get the 80% share in the first $45 million and a 50% in the latter proceedings. However the location of the discovery of the shipwreck does not belong to any particular country.

Image Source

Tweet

Read more!

Spintronics May Become a Reality to Beat Electronics in the Race for Faster Computers

With the new developments in the research of spintronics, we can conclude that spintronics can become a reality in the near future. The spintronics deals with the spin of electrons in the semiconductor much like the electronics deals with the charge of electrons in the semiconductor. The researchers discovered a way to detect and control the spin of electrons in silicon, which is widely used in the semiconductor industry.

Image Source

In the recent years, the semiconductor industry is facing a lot of problems because of the challenges in the meeting the speed and size targets for the demands of consumer electronics industry. The high speeds of processors and small sizes are now becoming big challenges to meet.

Image Source

Meanwhile the research for spintronics was going on. The control of spin in electrons was not known. But the methods to use it instead of electron charge, for all electronic applications is explored and named as spintronics. With the new discovery the spintronics could become a reality as the only problem was to control the spin of electrons. However there are still certain problems which need to be solved before taking a step further into spintronics. Researchers say that the risk is worth taking, keeping the demand and current challenges in electronics, in mind.

Image Source

An important application of spintronics is quantum computer which is a very powerful computer compared to the current ones.

The first public demo of a Quantum Computer in action

Image Source

Tweet

Read more!

A New Way of Moving Energy With Polaritions... Paves Way for the Future of Superconductors

The researchers have found a new way of moving energy from one point to another. A new form of matter is derived which melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the superconductors. This also introduces a new way of producing a light beam from a laser with low-energy. The new state is a solid filled with particles known as polaritions.

Image Source

Polaritions are energy particles which get trapped, slowed and fill the solid to make the new form of matter. These particles can move freely in specially designed optical structures. This they call as superfluids. They are superconductors in sold state. Basically they consolidate to act as single energy waves than individual particles.

Image Source

To create a superconductor in a traditional method requires extremely low temperatures. But the superfluids made of polarition particles are stable a higher temperature and may be at room temperatures also in the future.

Image Source

This if gets succeeded, the superconductors will become a reality and many of its applications can be realized.

Tweet

Read more!

Blue Screen Effect in the Modern Movies

Many people might not know about this awesome technique used in modern movie production. But it is an integral part of the modern movies. In the past it was similar to something called traveling matte. The screening effect is called blue screen but the screen color need not be blue. The now famous movie “300” is completely based on this technique. Otherwise there cannot be a visual effect of the background.

Image Source

First the person is shot against a bluescreen and the video is later processed to put whatever background we want to put. For example, in the movie “300” the background, almost all of the time was done using bluescreen technique. This means that one need not actually go to a particular location but stay inside the film studio and shoot the film. After applying the technique everything will change.

Image Source

Image Source

Tweet

Read more!

Tourism in France

Once in 2004 France was the most popular tourist destination in the world. France is one of the classics among tourist countries. Now the convenience of cheaper countries in Eastern Europe, its popularity has been diminished.

There are several tourist spots in the country. Mountain ranges, coastlines, castles, countryside and vineyard are some of them. Tourism in France accounts for the 6% of national income.

Louvre Museum, Musée d'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and cathedral of Notre-Dame and Disneyland Paris, are the notable tourist attraction in Paris.

Find the previous posts at:

http://makeitf.blogspot.com

Tweet

Read more!

Types of Tourism

There are several types of tourism which are not generally known to many people. But these make up an interesting reading.

Traveling to death sites or sites where disasters have occurred is referred to as Dark Tourism. Sex tourism is to have sex with prostitutes in a particular tourist spot. A traveler to whom traveling and discovery give pleasure than the destination is called Vacilando.

Common tourist practice of deciding the destination and booking accommodation by own without any agency in between is Free Independent Tourism. Mass Tourism involves many people taking tourism with the aid of an agency along with the fact that they move in a group. They utilize the tourism infrastructure to the maximum and thus following an ecotourism policy.

Space tourism is for vacation in outer space or on spaceships. Pilgrimage Tourism is obviously known. Perpetual Tourism is for those individuals who are always on one or other vacation and they just do it for pleasure, avoid tax or not to stay in a particular country.

Find the previous posts at:

http://makeitf.blogspot.com

Tweet

Read more!

Duping

Do not think that what I am going to tell you is already known to you. I do not literally mean that duping is duplicating something. But it is a term referred to in a video game for the action of duplicating an item or currency again and again to create multiples. Typically the game will be a persistent game. This is because of a bug/error in the game. This duping has several bad consequences not only in the game play but also in the real life.

When duping is done on an item it makes the game less thrilling depending upon often it is done and to what extent it is done. When a currency (virtual currency in an online video game) is duped then it will decrease the value of the currency thus affecting all other players. As the currency increases the supply increases and so the effective value of the currency reduces.

Nowadays online video games contain automatic detection of duping as part of the game. Because there is a real-money trading with virtual currency in the online games the duping affects real life for several people. In the reported case of EverQuest II’s duping in 2005, in a 24 hour period an unexpected rise of 20% was observed in the total money of the economy. The dupers sold this illegitimate currency in the station exchange for real money and made about $70,000.

Find the previous posts at:

http://makeitf.blogspot.com

Tweet

Read more!