This week on Mel & Floyd: Pants’ Christmas pickle and other decorating tips; Political corruption here and abroad; More January 6 fallout; Giant Santas taking over Monroe Street; Yes, GOP voters know he’s a crook; NASA sends cat video; Can women’s tears reduce male aggression?; Weapons from Japan; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.

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Mostly Pigs’ Blood

Nas & Prodigy - Self Conscience (arigato. rmx)

How did a space-age invention become ubiquitous in today’s digital imaging landscape? Learn all about it here in our latest podcast, featuring pioneers of photography and digital imaging. 

In 1993, noted physicist and engineer Eric Fossum led the invention of the CMOS active-pixel image sensor as part of his work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Then, as part of JPL’s mandate to seek commercial and consumer applications for emerging technologies, he was active in the transfer of the CMOS sensor’s “camera-on-a-chip” technology to industry. 

In our informative conversation with Professor Fossum, he makes distinctions between solid state CCDs and his more efficient CMOS sensor that would come to dominate the marketplace. To transform high-level science into layman’s terms, he uses the analogy of a bucket brigade collecting rain on a football field.

In a similar down-to-earth fashion, we touch on metaphysical issues like wave particle duality, and how this is demonstrated every time light enters a camera and you take a picture with your phone.

Join us to marvel at the wonders of science amid fun food references—from the way deep space radiation degrades CCD chips so they start to act like Swiss cheese, to the synergies between high-level scientific measurements and delicatessen lunch meats, both marks of a creative scientist and visionary educator.

Guest: Eric Fossum

Above photograph © John Sherman Photography, https://jshermanphoto.com/

For more information on our guest, see:
https://blogd7.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/camera-on-a-chip-eric-fossums-invention-of-the-cmos-image-sensor

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Eric Fossum Website: https://ericfossum.com/
Eric Fossum Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fossum
Eric Fossum at the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame: https://www.invent.org/inductees/eric-r-fossum
Eric Fossum at Dartmouth Engineering: https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/community/faculty/eric-fossum
Eric Fossum bio from the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: https://qeprize.org/winners/eric-fossum
Eric Fossum’s 2021 Emmy Award in Tech and Engineering https://www.nhbr.com/dartmouth-professor-wins-emmy-award-for-image-sensor-technology/

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Camera on a Chip: Eric Fossum's Invention of the CMOS Image Sensor

On 22 February 2024 NASAWatch.com editor Keith Cowing Spoke with Alhura about the planned landing of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 lander at the lunar south pole.

NASAWatch on Alhurra: IM-1 Landing Preview

On 22 February 2024 NASAWatch.com editor Keith Cowing Spoke with Deutsche Welle TV about the planned landing of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 lander at the lunar south pole.

NASAWatch on DW: IM-L Status

On 22 February 2024 NASAWatch.com editor Keith Cowing Spoke with Deutsche Welle about the landing of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 lander at the lunar south pole.

NASAWatch on DW: IM-1 Post Landing Update

On 20 May 2024 NASAWatch editor Keith Cowing spoke with Scripps News about the upcoming flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station and competition with SpaceX.

NASAWatch on Scripps: Boeing's Starliner Launch Part 2

Free-tempo ambient track inspired by The Dig by LucasArts and space-themed movies.

Rosetta

We invite you to dive into the sand dunes beneath the scorching sun and touch the unknown secrets of the east.

Barchan

Cheremuha - Barchan

This week on Mel & Floyd: An American version of The Commissar Vanishes; Rooting out supposed “anti-Christian “ bias and the positive side of throwing them to the lions; MTG wants to “clear the record”; Swastikar sales tanking in Europe; Some monkey stories!; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.

Photo courtesy Lukasz Rawa on Unsplash

Picking Kernels of Corn out of the Turd of Reality

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