Laptop Battery Calculation.

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Hi All,

I am a guy from IT background and I don't have any idea regarding battery calculation. Can anyone guide me to calculate battery capacity which I am want to use in my design please.

My requirement is Battery should long for at least 6 hours.

Currently I am having battery of 7600mAH, Batter

You know who wanted to see evolution in action? Katydid. | Bad Astronomy

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A few nights ago, my wife went outside for a moment, only to come running back in a minute later, grabbing me. "Phil, come out here, you have to see this!"

So I went out, and she pointed out this lovely lady to me:

I recognized it right away: a katydid, though that’s a fairly generic name. I think that’s actually an example of Microcentrum retinerve, or the Lesser Angle-winged Katydid (though it’s possibly Microcentrum rhombifolium; it’s hard to tell in these pictures*). They’re pretty common in North America, though usually not this far west from what I can tell. It was roughly 5 – 7 cm long, and quite pretty. I suspect this one is female because there are no brown spots near the tops of the wings, which males have (I wondered briefly if it may have been a nymph, but this late in the season that seems unlikely). I would’ve checked for an ovipositor, but c’mon, have some respect.

Check out those wings: they look amazingly like plant leaves, which is of course why my wife was so excited. The obvious conclusion is that long ago, the insects like this that had greenish wings with vein-like structures were harder to spot by predatory birds, and were able to pass this characteristic down to their kids (ones that were easier to see got eaten, and didn’t get a chance to reproduce as much). Little by little, bit by bit, every time one insect’s wings looked a bit more leafy than its siblings it would tend to live longer, and reproduce more. Over thousands, millions, of generations of katydids we get this: an insect that would be incredibly difficult to see from the air. Natural selection at work, my friends. Some people would even call this evolution. I know I would.

A very cool thing to see, and a fun example of how wonderful and subtle nature can be.

But sometimes subtlety is overrated. Wouldn’t it have been cooler to see one like this?

[If you like pix of insects, my Hive Overmind co-blogger Ed Yong just coincidentally mentioned the blog Myrmecos by Alex Wild, which has stunning photography.]

* And duh, of course I had to look those names up online. I’m an astronomer, not a bugologist.

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iPhone Roaming

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Has anyone else come across this problem. I have just come back off holiday and while in the Istanbul airport, I connected to free wifi. The wifi did not charge me, but my network supplier did charge me for connecting to free wifi. I have rung the company up and they have cancelled the charges, but

Speech Pathology: Approach to Assessment

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A speech and language pathologist and an occupational therapist discuss their experiences working together helping children with neurodevelopmental delays, providing strategies, techniques, and tips to use in an intervention setting Series: MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders [11/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14649]

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Speech Pathology: Approach to Assessment