3D Movies have sparked a rabid debate polarizing film fans from drooling for more, to aggressively spewing bile at it. What makes the debate even more interesting is that both sides tend to have very valid points. But this is something I don’t think either side would have predicted. A man with a visual impairment […]
An interesting video about the issues humanity is facing as Earth’s human population is skyrocketing. Hurray for the industrial revolution! [scishow]
The British government has announced that all publicly-funded research in the UK will be made available in full to anyone without charge. It’s been welcomed by many but has also raised fears that research could become financially unviable. The move was announced by the government member responsible for universities and science, David Willets (pictured), who […]
The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. This video serves as a reminder that our dreams can take us beyond te skies, right into the heavens! [Space University]
The University of Michigan recently released a new smartphone app that’s designed to help you do self-examinations for skin cancer. The free app, called UMSkinCheck, works by taking 23 (naked) pictures of yourself and analyzing them for moles and legions. The app will also have useful information and tools associated with skin cancer. I wonder […]
What is this world coming to when a person is assaulted because someone took offence to their medical prosthetic? That is essentially what happened when Dr. Steve Mann from Toronto, Ontario was on vacation with his family. Dr. Mann uses a form of “wearable computing” known as an Eye Glass – a prosthetic Augmediated Reality […]
Dark matter has been something that astrophysicists have postulated about for some time – matter we cannot see but must exist for things to make sense in the universe. A new technique has been demonstrated in a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that indicates that entirely starless galaxies conclusively […]
A song of ice and statistics… [Via TDWG]
Chronostasis (from Greek ??????, chrónos, “time” and ?????? “standing”) is the illusion in which the first impression following a saccade (quick eye movement) appears to be extended in time. The most well-known version of this illusion is the stopped-clock illusion, where the first movement of the second hand of an analog clock, following the viewer’s […]
The ‘Amazing Spiderman’ definitely has some unique tricks and abilities, but do any of them stand up to scientific realities? We’ll take a look at how some of Spiderman’s main attributes could legitimately happen, while others…not so much! [AsapSCIENCE]