China Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 The crying game: Beautiful microscopic images of TEARS reveal how sadness, chopping onions and eating spicy food makes each drop unique At first glance, these stunning microscopic images look like freshly fallen snowflakes - each with a unique pattern and unique makeup. However, these crystallised drops are made from the different kind of tears produced by the friends of a Dutch artist. Maurice Mikkers, a photographer from the Netherlands, created the amazing shots in a bid to see if different triggers - such as crying with emotion, eating a chilli or chopping onions - created different looking designs. This tear is what's known as a psychic tear and was caused when the friend felt sad Scientifically, tears are divided into three types based on their origin and all tears contain oils, antibodies and enzymes. Reflex tears occur in response to irritants, such as chopping onions or when getting poked in the eye. This tear was caused in reaction to eating a red pepper The structures shown in the pictures are largely crystallised salt, the circumstances under which the tear dries can lead to radically dissimilar shapes and formations, so two tears with the exact same chemical makeup can look very different up close. This reflex tear was harvested after crying from high dosed menthol oil on eyelid Click on the link for more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Cool except for the built in insurance ad: This Stretch Of Route 66 Plays 'America The Beautiful' If You Go The Speed Limit Even for the speed demons out there, it would be unpatriotic to go anything but the speed limit on a small stretch of Route 66 in New Mexico. That’s due to the fact that if drivers obey the signs, the road will treat them to its own rendition of the song “America the Beautiful.” That’s right. The road will belt it out. The song plays along a 490-yard stretch of Route 66 due to meticulously placed rumble strips, and drivers have to go the 45-mph speed limit in order to hear it in all of its glory. Click on the link for the full article and video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Self-replicating robots are here. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have designed a system that: 3D-prints moving robots with solid and liquid materials in a single step and on a commercially available 3D printer. No assembly required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 "No assembly required, just insert a motor & battery." Um, I think they don't understand the phrase no assembly required. Inserting a motor and battery does constitute some level of assembly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 The eye of Sauron: Sometimes, a total eclipse is a good time to eye the Sun. Taking advantage of an unusual juxtaposition of Earth, Moon and Sun, the featured image depicts the total solar eclipse that occurred last month as it appeared -- nearly simultaneously -- from both Earth and space. The innermost image shows the total eclipse from the ground, with the central pupil created by the bright Sun covered by a comparatively dark Moon. Surrounding the blocked solar disk is the tenuous corona of Sun imaged in white light, easily visible from the ground only during an eclipse. Normally, this corona is hard to track far from the Sun, but the featured montage matches it to false-colored observations of the Sun from NASA and ESA's space-based, Sun-orbiting, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Observations like this allow the study of the constantly changing magnetic activity both near and far from the Sun, the same activity that ultimately drives Earth's auroras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 (edited) Thank god for El Nino this past year. We're still not out of the woods..but these pictures show some of the recovery. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Before-and-after-photos-of-California-reservoirs-7243336.php#photo-9799621 Edited April 14, 2016 by The Evil Genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bliz Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 (edited) Incredibly cool tech Edited May 12, 2016 by Bliz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 A 15-year-old might have just discovered a lost Maya city in the Mexican jungle William Gadoury, a 15-year-old school student from Quebec, Canada, has found something that’s been hidden from archaeologists for centuries - what appears to be a lost city of the Maya civilisation, buried deep in the Yucatan jungle of southeastern Mexico. He didn’t do it by hiring a bunch of expensive equipment, hopping on a plane, and slaving away on an excavation site - he discovered the incredible ruins from the comfort of his own home, by figuring out that the ancient cities were built in alignment with the stars above. "I did not understand why the Maya built their cities away from rivers, on marginal lands and in the mountains," Gadoury told French-Canadian magazine, Journal de Montréal. "They had to have another reason, and as they worshiped the stars, the idea came to me to verify my hypothesis. I was really surprised and excited when I realised that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities." Gadoury had been studying 22 Maya constellations for years before releasing that he could line up the positions of 117 Maya cities on the ground with maps of stars and constellations above - something that no one had pieced together before. With this in mind, he located a 23rd constellation, which included just three stars. According to his sky map, he could only link up two cities with the three stars, so suspected that a third city remained undetected in that spot. Unfortunately, the location on the ground that matched up with the third star wasn’t exactly somewhere that Gadoury could just go visit - it’s right in the heart of the jungle, in the inaccessible and remote region of Mexico’s southern Yucatán Peninsula. Not that that stopped Gadoury - he knew that a fire had stripped much of the forest in the area back in 2005, which meant that from above, you might have an easier time spotting ancient ruins than if the canopy had been thriving for the past couple of thousand years. All he needed to do was access satellite imagery of the area from the Canadian Space Agency, which he mapped onto Google Earth images to see if there were any signs of his lost city. Further analyses from satellites belonging to NASA and the Japanese Space Agency revealed what looks like a pyramid and 30 buildings at the location mapped by the star, Yucatan Expat Life reports. "Not only has he discovered a new Maya city, but it is one of the five largest on record." Click on the link for the full article 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Probably an incorrect nerd though. Talked with an archeologist friend of mine who thinks it's probably actually the remnants of a grow operation based on older data about the site. Would be awesome if it verifies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 (edited) Probably an incorrect nerd though. Talked with an archeologist friend of mine who thinks it's probably actually the remnants of a grow operation based on older data about the site. Would be awesome if it verifies. Clearly your friend is a jelly hater who wishes he'd thought of it instead of being outdone by some punk kid who never left his mom's basement, in Canada of all places, to discover this lost city. Edited May 13, 2016 by PokerPacker 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 A Major Mystery About Earth's Magnetic Field Has Just Been Solved For the first time, physicists have observed a mysterious process called magnetic reconnection—wherein opposing magnetic field lines join up, releasing a tremendous burst of energy. The discovery, published today inScience, may help us unlock the secrets of space weather and learn about some of the weirdest, most magnetic objects in the universe. The magnetosphere, an invisible magnetic field surrounding our planet, is a critical shield for life on Earth. It protects us from all sorts of high energy particles emitted by the sun on a daily basis. When a particularly large burst of solar energy hits the edge of the magnetosphere (called the magnetopause), it can trigger space weather. This includes geomagnetic storms that light up the northern and southern skies with auroras, occasionally knocking out our satellites and power grids. . . . Burch and his colleagues are continuing to study five other instances of magnetic reconnection recently observed by the MMS, and they’re hopeful the mission will yield more events for years to come. In addition to shedding light on space weather, magnetic reconnection can help us understand exotic astronomical objects like magnetars, as well as the strong magnetic environments created by fusion reactors. “The quality of the MMS data is absolutely inspiring,” said James Drake, a physicist at the University of Maryland and a co-author on the study. “It’s not clear that there will ever be another mission quite like this one.” http://gizmodo.com/a-major-mystery-about-earths-magnetic-field-has-just-be-1776291902 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 (edited) Best get out the vote PSA ever - mildly NSFW so I didn't embed link Edited May 14, 2016 by KAOSkins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 I think you need to take off the quotation marks ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 I think you need to take off the quotation marks ??? fixed it, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Best get out the vote PSA ever - mildly NSFW so I didn't embed Why worry about that now? There's Trump, and he's off that chart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 (edited) Why worry about that now? There's Trump, and he's off that chart I have to say, the EuroThrash element of this video made me think of you. In a good way! Cartoon booty. Someone would be bound to be flummoxed by having to explain it to the 5 year old looking over their shoulder this morning. Edited May 14, 2016 by KAOSkins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btfoom Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Very Cool Story: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/year-autism-reads-shelter-dogs-wont-feel-lonely/story?id=39167680 A 6-year-old California boy is helping shy rescue dogs come out of their shells by reading them storybooks. Jacob Tumalan, 6, who has autism, began reading to pups after his aunt, Lisa Dekowski-Ferranti, brought him to Carson Animal Shelter in Gardena, California, where she and her daughter Lindsay volunteer.<rest at link> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 That's awesome. Young struggling readers can often benefit from reading to animals too. Reading to a dog that just sits there and wags its tail gives them a non-judgmental audience to practice with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-05-17/new-pilot-earpiece-translates-languages-for-you-in-real-time New 'Pilot' Earpiece Translates Languages for You in Real Time This could be a game changer when traveling abroad. We've all been there: You're standing in a foreign country, struggling to communicate in another language, and kicking yourself for thinking that listening to 20 minutes of "how to speak whatever" on your phone during the plane ride over would somehow get you by. The Pilot, an earpiece being developed by the wearable-technology company Waverly Labs and designed for the international traveler, aims to change all that, so you never get lost in translation again. The 'smart earpiece,' as the company calls it, and corresponding app, uses speech-recognition technology to translate in real time, so that two people speaking different languages can have a conversation without missing a beat. Of course, in order for the technology to work, both people need to be 'hooked up,' so to speak—which is why the set comes with two earpieces, one for each participant. The idea is that when language gets in the way, both people would put in an earpiece and speak in their preferred tongue. pics/video/more at link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 So..Darmok and Jalad..at Tanagra? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Shaka...when the walls fell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-05-17/new-pilot-earpiece-translates-languages-for-you-in-real-time New 'Pilot' Earpiece Translates Languages for You in Real Time pics/video/more at link I believe that's called a Babel fish... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Published on May 20, 2016 In this uplifting short film, directed by Max Thurlow and Nick Trumble, Noisey meets 93 year old jazz pianist Edward Hardy. Ed was given a new lease of life and relief from dementia and depression, when his care home discovered he was a talented pianist in his younger days. They reunited him with his ex-band members for a special performance, which proved the power of music for people suffering cognitive disorders. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/scientists-underground-stone-rings-made-neanderthals-39370484 Scientists: Underground Stone Rings Made by Neanderthals Two mysterious stone rings found deep inside a French cave were probably built by Neanderthals about 176,500 years ago, proving that the ancient cousins of humans were capable of more complex behavior than previously thought, scientists say. The structures were made from hundreds of pillar-shaped mineral deposits, called stalagmites, which were chopped to a similar length and laid out in two oval patterns up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) inches high. They were discovered by chance in 1990, after remaining untouched for tens of thousands of years because a rockslide had closed the mouth of the cave at Bruniquel in southwest France. While previous research had suggested the structures pre-dated the arrival of modern humans in Europe around 45,000 years ago, the notion that Neanderthals could have made them didn't fit long-held assumptions that these early humans were incapable of the kind of complex behavior necessary to work underground. Using sophisticated dating techniques, a team led by archaeologist Jacques Jaubert of the University of Bordeaux, France, found that the stalagmites must have been broken off the ground around 176,500 years ago "making these edifices among the oldest known well-dated constructions made by humans." more at link haven't "vetted" it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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