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“There’s a place where TV remotes are flashlights, Wii’s are torches, and Snuggies are translucent. It’s our kitchen. We modified a 3 dollar webcam to view in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. We’ll show you how, and what you can do with it.”
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“It’s become an annual Mid-Majority tradition. I try to be the last man in America to know who won the Super Bowl, and the last man in America to know the score of the game. Together, these two pieces of data combine to form The Knowledge. There’s no pastime like this: a race against yourself, a game played against the world. Short title of the game: Last Man.
I’ve been doing this for 23 years, ever since I was in high school. But this is the fourth year the game has been played on this site. Feel free to play the game yourself. You’ll never be the same. Keep Running. Avoid The Knowledge. “
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“92% of peer reviewers deteriorated during 14 years of study in the quality and usefulness of their reviews (as judged by editors at the time of decision), at rates unrelated to the length of their service (but moderately correlated with their mean quality score, with better-than average reviewers decreasing at about half the rate of those below average). Only 8% improved, and those by very small amount.”
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You can’t modify a webcam to see thermal infrared (~14 to 8µm), only near IR. (For one thing, glass lenses are opaque in the far IR where thermal radiation mostly lies. You need germanium lenses or polyethylene.)
I’ve been doing almost the same “Life in the Infrared” thing with an actual thermal IR camera (it’s a FLIR i7) here.