Test Your Brain: You Won't Believe Your Eyes

Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011

Test Your Brain is a show about how the brain works. Filmed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison featuring Dutch professor Bas Rokers who's working on motion perception and depth perception. Up to 20% of all people have problems with properly perceiving 3D images. One of the goals of this research is to help people who have these 3D impairments. Test Your Brain will be aired October 30th via National Geographic Channel.

National Geographic - Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888.
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directed by Joppe Rog & Roby Kikic
edited by Roby Kikic
production by Dough'Nut
music by The Great Mundane (Solar Food) & SBTRKT (Trials Of The Past)

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LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ljaQp27TI

Never trust your eyes!

Uploaded on Sep 14, 2011

Never trust your eyes!
The new series: Test Your Brain starts October 9, 2011

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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7Ho9cmz4E

A Haircut In Reverse / Vom Glatzkopf Zum Hippie

Uploaded on Aug 9, 2011



A bald guy transforms into a hippie!! ---
Tom Offer-Westort wanted to shave his beard, but his friend Peter Simon suggested they do it in style. So, they filmed it and cut it together via a bit of stop-motion animation and rolled it out in reverse. Of course, we don't actually see Abby Simon cutting Tom's hair in between snaps, which is because Tom has magic beard-altering fingers.


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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ialQ7qZ8jlQ#!

THE SKEPTICS

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

—Albert Einstein

THE SKEPTICS SOCIETY is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) scientific and educational organization whose mission is to engage leading experts in investigating the paranormal, fringe science, pseudoscience, and extraordinary claims of all kinds, promote critical thinking, and serve as an educational tool for those seeking a sound scientific viewpoint. Our contributors—leading scientists, scholars, investigative journalists, historians, professors and teachers—are top experts in their fields. It is our hope that our efforts go a long way in promoting critical thinking and lifelong inquisitiveness in all individuals.

The Society’s Executive Director, Dr. Michael Shermer, is also the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University and Chapman University. Shermer has written 12 books including: The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and Why People Believe Weird Things. He has appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Leeza, Unsolved Mysteries, among others. He has been interviewed in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, History Channel, Science Channel, and Learning Channel.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

—Baruch Spinoza

Sum Ergo Cogito — 
I Am Therefore I Think.



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Who knew?

Chemistry Experiment

Apparently this is what happens when you mix toothpaste and hydrogen peroxide? Can any chemistry folks confirm/deny?

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its not actually toothpaste, its a lil bit of yeast, dish soap and concentrated peroxide

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Controversial Wife Beater Shirt

Men Tank Top Wife Beater A-Shirt Undershirt

'Wife Beater' Shirts Spark Outcry

By Oliver Yates Libaw
April 25


A Web site selling "Wife Beater" logo T-shirts and offering a special discount to convicted abusers is vowing to stay in business, despite outrage from anti-domestic violence groups.

James Doolin, a 30-year-old entrepreneur from Texas, created his site several months ago, offering men's and women's tank tops imprinted with the words "Wife Beater."

"Wife Beater" is a popular slang reference to ribbed white cotton sleeveless undershirts, like the one worn by Marlon Brando when he played Stanley Kowalski in the movie A Streetcar Named Desire.

Doolin says he dreamed up the idea for his products after watching the television show Cops, which has often shown footage of men being arrested on domestic violence charges, who happen to be wearing the sleeveless Ts.

His wife-beaters Web site also has a host of other features that have drawn the ire of anti-domestic violence groups. The order form lets buyers customize the shirts with beer, motor oil and other stains.

It also offers shirts at half price for "convicted wife beaters" able to document their offense and conviction. 

Full price for a regular "Wife Beater" shirt is $20.








Source:  http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93475&page=1#.UZr5v7U3uyA

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Chris Hadfield: Space Oddity

Published on May 12, 2013

A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

(Note: This video cannot be reproduced and is licensed for online music use only.)

With thanks to Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran, Andrew Tidby and Evan Hadfield for all their hard work.

Captioning kindly provided by CHS (www.chs.ca)

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Cicadas are the longest living insects in the World

Op-Ed Contributor

Here Comes the Buzz

By CRAIG GIBBS
Published: May 1, 2013

IT may not be as grand as the wildebeest migrations across Africa’s eastern savanna or the march of emperor penguins across miles of Antarctic ice to their inland nesting areas. But it is a wildlife phenomenon not seen elsewhere in the world.

Valero Doval

Over the next few weeks, as soil temperatures reach a sustained temperature of 64 degrees, cicadas from Connecticut to North Carolina will emerge from their subterranean world for the first time since they burrowed underground as nymphs in 1996, returning in numbers that dwarf those other spectacles. The buzzing of males will be heard in a mating ritual that stretches back to at least the ice age. Then, within six weeks, they will all be dead, hundreds of millions, if not billions, of them, and their progeny will not be seen until 2030.

These are the Brood II cicadas, one of the longest living insects in the world, seen only once every 17 years along the East Coast. (There are 11 other broods that follow the same cycle, though in different years; this is one of the largest.) Of the roughly 10 million insect species on earth, cicadas constitute about 3,000. Of those, a mere seven, collectively called periodic cicadas and found only in eastern North America, spend either 13 or 17 years growing underground, until it is time for them to emerge and take their adult form.

They also harbor a mystery that has confounded the biologists who study them: why did their synchronized life cycles evolve? One theory among several suggests that it was a response to the atmospheric cooling during the Pleistocene, to ensure sufficient populations for successful mating. If so, the cicada may yet reprise its role as climate indicator if its cycle is disrupted by a warming planet.

What we do know is this: Their buzzing can reach 90 decibels, equivalent to some power motors. They have been seen in clusters of up to 1.5 million per acre. As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as “boiling out of the ground.” Snow shovels are sometimes employed to clear them away.

But there is no reason to fear these insects, which grow to about 1.5 inches in length, with big red compound eyes. Cicadas don’t bite. And don’t worry about your plants. They’ll be fine. There’s no need to reach for the bug spray.

While the ecological role played by some insects is important for our own survival (bees and pollination, for instance), they seldom get the credit or attention they deserve. Bigger creatures tend to dominate the spotlight. The fascinating cicada life cycle returns our gaze to the microcosmos beneath our feet, where these insects are sustained by sucking the juices of tree roots.

They emerge at night from tunnels they dig to the surface. Once mates have been secured, the females will deposit their eggs in the twigs of trees and shrubs, laying up to 600 eggs each. This does little permanent damage to trees; some small branches may be broken, but the end result is often the same as that from pruning — healthier plants.

The cicadas also provide an overwhelming smorgasbord for other animals. (Another theory about the evolution of their long life cycle and mass synchronous emergence is that it confounds predators — birds, reptiles, mammals, even other insects — and that, even though these predators may consume cicadas voraciously, there are so many of them that the population is not seriously depleted.)

They are also a culinary cornucopia for the adventuresome among us. You can find recipes for cicada dumplings, tacos and stir-fries, among other dishes, on the Web. The Onondaga Indians of New York credit the arrival of cicadas as having once saved them from famine.

These insects offer other benefits, too. By tunneling to the surface, nymphs aerate the soil. Predators that feed on them increase in population, while their other prey get a reprieve. And the decomposing bodies of those cicadas return much needed nitrogen to the soil.
The last year Brood II was seen, Bill Clinton was president, Charles and Diana agreed to divorce, the Dow Jones industrial average closed the year at just under 6,550 and the Internet was in its infancy. Now there is a network of citizen-based science groups poised to start collecting data that may help shed new light on this phenomenon. One worry is that the unyielding creep of development continues to decimate cicada habitat. So if you hear the buzz of the cicada, take a moment to revel in their remarkable survival strategy.

Craig Gibbs is an entomologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Queens Zoo.

A version of this op-ed appeared in print on May 2, 2013, on page A23 of the New York edition with the headline: Here Comes the Buzz.

 

For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT.

 

 Source:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/opinion/here-comes-the-cicadas-buzz.html?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20130502&_r=0

 

 

 

Giant 'head' found floating in Hudson River -

 

 

 

Mystery of Hudson River floating head solved? In Bergen?

Posted by: cliffviewpilot    Tags:  floating head, mystery of floating head, weirdnj    Posted date:  May 3, 2013  |  No comment

No one has yet claimed ownership of a giant head found last week floating in the Hudson River, but we may have scooped the major news outlets on its possible origin.

If you aren’t familiar with the story, a rowing crew from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, found the 7-foot-tall, foam and fiberglass head damaged and adrift on April 22.

The team’s coach considered the enormous, Greek-style noodle a water hazard and enlisted 10 students to haul it to shore. It’s since become a school attraction.

Oddly, no one has seemed interested in retrieving the head.

 Read More:  http://cliffviewpilot.com/mystery-of-hudson-river-floating-head-solved-in-bergen/