General Sciences
10 Weird Facts About Your Brain
boozedout.com — The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10 watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping. More…
TEDTalks:Tom Wujec: 3 Ways the Brain Creates Meaning [video]
scienceblogs.com — Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? More…
Les bons danseurs font de meilleurs malles reproducteurs
leveilleur.fr — Les hommes qui se trémoussent avec autant d'aisance que John Travolta ou Patrick Swayze ont plus de succès auprès des femmes que les maladroits de la piste de danse. Ce constat culturel assez évident aurait aussi des implications d'un point de vu More…
The biology of water bears (Tardigrada).
trophort.com — Water bears (Tardigrada) are microscopic, segmented animals with exactly eight legs living in mosses, dunes, beaches, soil, and marine or freshwater sediments. Tardigrades have a body with four segments and a cuticle containing chitin. They have a ventral nervous system with one ganglion per segment including a multilobed brain. More…
The biology of sipunculans (Sipuncula).
trophort.com — Sipunculid worms (peanut worms, Sipuncula) are bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine worms with a coelom. Their mouth is an introvert (proboscis) surrounded by a mass of ca. 20 tentacles which can be retracted into the body. Sipunculans have no vascular blood system but interstitial fluid transports oxygen and nutrients around their bo More…
Mixing Waste Products with Steam to Release Hydrogen | My Gr
mygreentreasure.com — Researchers from University of Leeds believe that future cars and laptops will be powered by their environmentally-friendly hydrogen obtained from waste materials,vegetable oil or glycerol(bio-diesel by product). More…

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