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Strong Optical Illusion – Green
Your Eyes Cheat Your Brain To check, use any graphics tool you like, that green and blue are actually the same color.
Optical Illusion – Ames window
Keep your eyes on the stick to see what’s really going on: Via Kottke
Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein
Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein: ” The key to how any protein works is its three-dimensional shape, determined by all the ways its atoms interact. Trying to push two atoms closer when they want to repel is like holding magnets together when they’re oriented the wrong way. You can force them, but nature [...]
Solving the Biggest Natural Explosion Mystery – 1908 Tunguska Event – Popular Mechanics
Alas, one less mysterious plot device for scifi (see Earth, by David Brinn) Solving the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History – 1908 Tunguska Event – Popular Mechanics: ” When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky exploded over a [...]
Swine Flu Tracker
FluTracker: ” Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.
It’s All One To Me
Apropos of nothing, I was recently reflecting that the most obvious implication Zeno’s paradox is that the universe is continuous, and impervious to slicing into neat fractions, like halves, down at the most fundamental level. These millennia later, we are still looking for the single Theory Of Everything that explains all physical phenomenon. Then I [...]
Sterling Is Wrong
We all create our own universe, and to do my part I’m going to say that Bruce Sterling is wrong, 2009 will be a year of healing and creativity. That said, his post is enjoyable to read in the same way as the Dr. Bronner’s soap label.
Checking Lists – Actual Versus Potential Safety In Hospitals
As recently as 2001, a simple procedure was added to the protocol of a top notch hospital in the mid-atlantic. A year later, this simple procedure was seen to have been enormously effective. They calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in [...]
Forgotten Pre-Trinity Plutonium Found
One of my friends grew up in Hanford, Washington, the fissionable material manufacturing facility that made the Plutonium for our first nuclear explosion test (Trinity) as well as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. When I sent her the article about a recently discovered batch of pre-Trinity plutonium she shared this little bit: When I worked [...]
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