A funny list of Scientific Jargon

 I was doing my little “research” on science jargon when I came across this hilarious list of jargon and their corresponding meaning as interpreted by Dyrk Schingman of Oregon State University and I thought this is “correct within an order of magnitude”.

IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN
     I didn't look up the original reference.
 
A DEFINITE TREND IS EVIDENT
     These data are practically meaningless.
 
WHILE IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE DEFINITE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
     An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published.
 
THREE OF THE SAMPLES WERE CHOSEN FOR DETAILED STUDY
     The other results didn't make any sense.
 
TYPICAL RESULTS ARE SHOWN
     This is the prettiest graph.
 
THESE RESULTS WILL BE IN A SUBSEQUENT REPORT
     I might get around to this sometime, if pushed/funded.
 
THE MOST RELIABLE RESULTS ARE OBTAINED BY JONES
     He was my graduate student; his grade depended on this.
 
IN MY EXPERINCE
     once
 
IN CASE AFTER CASE
     Twice
 
IN  A SERIES OF CASES
     Thrice
 
IT IS BELIEVED THAT
     I think.
 
IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT
     A couple of other guys think so too.
 
CORRECT WITHIN AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
     Wrong.
 
ACCORDING TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
     Rumor has it.
 
A STATISTICALLY ORIENTED PROJECTION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FINDINGS
     A wild guess.
 
A CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF OBTAINABLE DATA
     Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass of beer.
 
IT IS CLEAR THAT MUCH ADDITIONAL WORK WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PHENOMENA OCCURS
     I don't understand it.
 
AFTER ADDITIONAL STUDY BY MY COLLEAGUES
     They don't understand it either.
 
THANKS ARE DUE TO JOE BLOTZ FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THE EXPERIMENT AND TO ANDREA SCHAEFFER FOR
VALUABLE DISCUSSIONS
     Mr. Blotz did the work and Ms. Shaeffer explained to me what it meant.
 
A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT AREA FOR EXPLORATORY STUDY
     A totally useless topic selected by my committee.
 
IT IS HOPED THAT THIS STUDY WILL STIMULATE FURTHER INVESTIGATION IN THIS FIELD
     I quit.
 

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What are Time-lapse videos?

Time-lapse photography is an interesting technique that records a scene or objects that has a slow   state-of-change and turns it into a video that plays back in high speed. The easiest way to do it is to have your camera stationary on something that changes slowly (e.g. clouds, plants growing, etc) and start taking series of photo for hours or even days. Hours and hour’s worth of photos are compressed into a video with merely few minutes playtime, thus creating a time lapsing effect.

In another word, it allows us to see the progress faster without having to wait along the actual time. Spotting sun’s movement from sunrise to sunset takes about 12 hours; it’s obviously not possible and you won’t even notice the changes. But seeing it rise and set in 10 seconds, that’s pretty cool!

Check out these examples of nice time-lapse videos:

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Sci-fi Jungle Matte Painting [Timelapse] from Bobby Myers.
A timelapse video of my process creating a sci-fi jungle matte painting. Taking it from a concept sketch and a (nearly) finished product. Hope some can find this helpful, thanks for looking.

Just a quick note, you'll see some upscaling of photo ref's in the video. It's usually not good practice to do that, but I got lucky and it wasn't too bad here. I just don't want to promote bad techniques or anything. Knowing is half the battle.

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Please find more of these here:http://vimeo.com/tag:timelapse

"Tempest Milky Way"

Randy Halverson, a photographer , who makes incredibly stunning time lapse videos of the sky is back with one yet another brilliantly shot video - "Tempest Milky Way" that showcases the enigmatic beauty that our universe really is...

Wow! It's wonderful to just see the stars, but then at 2:20 things really get interesting as storms blow in and at 1:57 see if you notice the silhouette of a whitetail deer on the horizon, and at 3:24 a meteor pops into view... and is reflected in the lake! It is adorable how the motion of the camera (especially moving up through the corn field) adds a magical sensation to the video. And shows us a dimension we can't see with our own eyes, it's real nonetheless. This is the kind of stuff that makes you want to see more of this marvelous relation between the nature and technology.

Watch the video down here, don't forget to select HD and fullscreen.

Credit: Randy Halverson , This blog does not posses any copyrights of the video.