General Sciences
Are women less interested in info graphics?
benfry.com — I have looked at 2 years worth of Glamour (and Harper’s Bazaar too) magazines for my project and it shows that Glamour and other women’s magazines have less amount of information graphics in the magazines compared to men’s magazines, such as GQ and Esquire. Why do you think that is? Do you think that is gender-related at all?More… (General Sciences)
palewireISEF 2008: The best of the best! And they're girls!
scienceblogs.com — Breaking news....they've just announced the grand award winners at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. And I'm absolutely thrilled to tears to announce that the top three prize winners are all girls! One more nail in the coffin for those who say that girls can't do science, math, and engineering. More… (General Sciences)
A Baseball Hat That Can Read Your Mind
gizmodo.com — While this might look like an ordinary baseball hat, a closer look reveals that it has a bunch of electronics jammed into the back and a wire connecting it behind the ear of the wearer. That's your first tip-off that this hat will do more than shield your eyes from the sun and give you hat head. It's a hat that can actually read the EEG signals froMore… (General Sciences)
zerhynnSorting Contest
iti.fh-flensburg.de — Click on a sorting algorithmMore… (General Sciences)
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Humans Almost Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago
foxnews.com — Fox News reports new findings which suggest Man almost died out 70,000 years ago.More… (General Sciences)
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Lancet Fluke: Zombie Ants
damninteresting.com — Mind-controlling parasite travels from cows to snails to ants and back! Incredible life cycle of Dicrocoelium dendriticum shows the complexity of evolution.More… (General Sciences)
FermiLab Today's Announcements
fnal.gov — Various events and experiments from the national accelerator labs, including reader mail, questions and answers and articles on physicsMore… (General Sciences)
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HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH “FUTURE SEEING POWERS”
thenewspointer.blogdns.com — Simple actions require us to perceive and quickly respond to a situation the visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, allowing it to generate perceptions of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future, so that when an observer actually perceives something, it is the present rather than what happened one-tenth of a secondMore… (General Sciences)
Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter
fnal.gov — Batavia, Ill.--Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment today announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. The CDMS experiment, conducted a half-mile underground in a mine in Soudan, Minn., again sets the world’s best constraints on the properties of dark matter.More… (General Sciences)
From Particle Physics to Eyesight
symmetrymagazine.org — As a particle physicist, Alan Litke routinely measures tiny signals with equally tiny electronics. Now he’s applying those methods to individual nerve cells, revolutionizing the study of how we see. More… (General Sciences)
Eye strain - What is it how is it caused and how to treat it
strainedeyes.com — If you use your computer for any substantial time you've properly suffered from eye strain before - be sure to read this guide on how to deal with it. More… (General Sciences)
mudkipzunfsyouVitamin D deficiency linked to breast cancer in new study
afp.com — Women deficient in vitamin D at the time of a breast cancer diagnosis are more likely to die or see the tumor spread, a Canadian study published in the United States has shown. More… (General Sciences)
rishqoCould an Acid Trip Cure Your OCD?
discovermagazine.com — Despite their reputation, hallucinogenic drugs like Ecstacy and LSD are being used to treat mental disorders like OCD and post traumatic stress disorder, though some still question whether the drugs will ever be ready for mainstream use.More… (General Sciences)
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Cegah Satwa Punah » Orangutan Kalimantan (Pongo pygmaeus)
cegahsatwapunah.duniaanda.com — Orangutan Kalimantan, Pongo pygmaeus, adalah spesies orangutan asli pulau Kalimantan. Bersama dengan orangutan Sumatra yang lebih kecil, orangutan Kalimantan masuk kedalam genus pongo yang dapat ditemui di Asia. Orangutan Kalimantan memiliki lama waktu hidup selama 35 sampai 40 tahun di alam liar, sedangkan di penangkaran dapat mencapai usia 60 tahMore… (General Sciences)
Ice Cores Reveal Fluctuations In Earth's Greenhouse Gases
sciencedaily.com — "The fundamental conclusion that today's concentrations of these greenhouse gases have no past analogue in the ice-core record remains firm," Brook said in the report. "The remarkably strong correlations of methane and carbon dioxide with temperature reconstructions also stand."More… (General Sciences)
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