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Saturday, 31 July 2010
quote [ The scientists focused on the long-distance network of 383 brain regions and 6,602 long-distance brain connections that travel through the brain’s white matter, which are like the “interstate highways” between far-flung brain regions, he explained, while short-distance gray matter connections constitute “local roads” within a brain region and its sub-structures. ]
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@8:56pmGMT] [+100 CAFFEINESTRAVAGANZA!] [2 comments] |
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010
quote [ The luckless reptile was promptly plucked from obscurity and shown a swinging time.
Madhuri wanted some fun and this game was to last several days. With tail firmly clamped in the animal’s trunk the lizard was swung around, put on the floor and then seated on her back...over and over again. ] Leez... Are you okay???
[SFW] [Funnies] [by steele@3:20amGMT] [+1 Actual Hilarity] [2 comments] |
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
quote [ Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it's in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows. ]
It's not really racist, just physics and biology :)
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@11:59pmGMT] [0 comments] |
quote [ Before the test would begin, the child’s parents were told that today we would be testing color words. Responses were typically enthusiastic. “Oh, that’s great! Margie’s got her colors down pat.” At which point, we leveled with them: if they wanted to sit through the study, they would have to be blindfolded. Such measures may seem extreme—but then again, so were the reactions we got from parents during the pilot study, as they watched their little ones fail to pick out the right color, over and over again. The reactions ran the short line from shocked to terrified, and back again. Some parents were so dismayed they started impatiently correcting their children mid-test. One mother, in particular, couldn’t seem to stop herself, and took to nervously grabbing her little boy’s hand whenever it veered away from the correct choice. ]
Interesting article on how the use of language can change how we learn something so simple as colors.
[SFW] [Tales of Interest...] [by steele@5:18pmGMT] [+1 Funsightful] [16 comments] |
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Friday, 9 July 2010
quote [ Some birds can sense the Earth’s magnetic field and orientate themselves with the ease of a compass needle. This ability is a massive boon for migrating birds, keeping frequent flyers on the straight and narrow. But this incredible sense is closely tied to a more mundane sense – vision. Thanks to special molecules in their retinas, birds like the European robins can literally see magnetic fields. The fields appear as patterns of light and shade, or even colour, superimposed onto what they normally see. ]
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@1:10amGMT] [0 comments] |
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Thursday, 8 July 2010
quote [ In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would. ]
All 8 Parts in extended.
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@8:16pmGMT] [+1 "Oh, yeah!"] [4 comments] |
quote [ Welcome to the Tau Manifesto. This manifesto is dedicated to one of the most important numbers in mathematics, perhaps the most important: the circle constant relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension. For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant captures the geometry of the circle in a single number. Of course, the traditional choice of circle constant is Pi—but, as mathematician Bob Palais notes in his delightful article “Pi Is Wrong!”, Pi is wrong. It’s time to set things right. ]
Makes an interesting case.
[SFW] [Tales of Interest...] [by steele@5:55pmGMT] [0 comments] |
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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
quote [ Working in isolated monasteries in the foothills of the Himalayas proved extremely difficult. Some religious leaders keep their meditative procedures a closely guarded secret. Medical measuring devices require electrical power and wall outlets are not always available. In addition, trying to meditate while strangers attempt to measure your rectal temperature is not something most monks are happy to do. ]
An old article, but interesting. I'm thinking of changing the name of the site to egokillers ;)
[SFW] [Alternative Living] [by steele@6:43pmGMT] [+5 steele's penis] [0 comments] |
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Friday, 2 July 2010
quote [ A group of Christians got together last weekend and went to the pride parade in Chicago. They were there to wave signs and make their presence known and expose the homos to message of Jesus Christ. But unlike most self-identified Christians who show up at pride parades, these guys didn't come to condemn. They came to apologize. ]
awwwww. I got all weepy :)
[SFW] [Tales of Interest...] [by steele@1:50pmGMT] [+3 Fucking...Cool.] [3 comments] |
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010
quote [ Stunning photos of the mysterious sea angel (Clione limacine), a swimming sea slug, have been released by Natalia Chervyakova a marine biologist and photographer from Moscow State University. ]
Wow, these things are cool looking.
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@7:53pmGMT] [+1 "Oh, yeah!"] [0 comments] |
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I feel sorry for the poor bastard that realizes they're going to need to map out the entire nervous system to get a full handle on things.