Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Feb 19, 2019
Feb 10, 2019
History of the Periodic Table and the Evolution of The Alphabet
I have two 'History of' for you today. Here in The Netherlands the weather is lousy ... and it's Sunday ... a good moment to get the cobwebs out of my brain and learn something.
First the History of the Periodic Table, click here. A beautiful and clear website.
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And second the History of the Alphabet by Matt Baker, Usefullcharts.com, click here. (Prints sold out unfortunately)
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First the History of the Periodic Table, click here. A beautiful and clear website.
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And second the History of the Alphabet by Matt Baker, Usefullcharts.com, click here. (Prints sold out unfortunately)
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Aug 12, 2017
Vintage book covers set in motion
What happens when vintage book covers are set in motion?
More Covers from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo.
More Covers from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo.
Jun 12, 2017
The 2 hours and 45 minutes is very cool!
A 1950s experiment asked an artist to take LSD and draw the same portrait 9 times. The results are very interesting. I think my favorite is the of drawn after 2 hours and 45 minutes. Or the one after. I can't decide.
Read the story here.
Read the story here.
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| After 20 minutes |
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| After 85 minutes |
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| After 2 hours and 30 minutes |
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| After 2 hours and 32 minutes |
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| After 2 hours and 35 minutes |
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| After 2 hours and 45 minutes |
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| After 4 hours and 25 minutes |
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| After 5 hours and 45 minutes |
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| After 8 hours |
Apr 30, 2017
Amanda Palmer reads 'The Mushroom Hunters' by Neil Gaiman
The Mushroom Hunters is Neil Gaiman’s feminist poem about science. Amanda Palmer does a very good job reading it.
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THE MUSHROOM HUNTERS
Science, as you know, my little one, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe.
It’s based on observation, on experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe the facts revealed.
In the old times, they say, the men came already fitted with brains
designed to follow flesh-beasts at a run,
to hurdle blindly into the unknown,
and then to find their way back home when lost
with a slain antelope to carry between them.
Or, on bad hunting days, nothing.
The women, who did not need to run down prey,
had brains that spotted landmarks and made paths between them
left at the thorn bush and across the scree
and look down in the bole of the half-fallen tree,
because sometimes there are mushrooms.
Before the flint club, or flint butcher’s tools,
The first tool of all was a sling for the baby
to keep our hands free
and something to put the berries and the mushrooms in,
the roots and the good leaves, the seeds and the crawlers.
Then a flint pestle to smash, to crush, to grind or break.
And sometimes men chased the beasts
into the deep woods,
and never came back.
Some mushrooms will kill you,
while some will show you gods
and some will feed the hunger in our bellies. Identify.
Others will kill us if we eat them raw,
and kill us again if we cook them once,
but if we boil them up in spring water, and pour the water away,
and then boil them once more, and pour the water away,
only then can we eat them safely. Observe.
Observe childbirth, measure the swell of bellies and the shape of breasts,
and through experience discover how to bring babies safely into the world.
Observe everything.
And the mushroom hunters walk the ways they walk
and watch the world, and see what they observe.
And some of them would thrive and lick their lips,
While others clutched their stomachs and expired.
So laws are made and handed down on what is safe. Formulate.
The tools we make to build our lives:
our clothes, our food, our path home…
all these things we base on observation,
on experiment, on measurement, on truth.
And science, you remember, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe,
based on observation, experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe these facts.
The race continues. An early scientist
drew beasts upon the walls of caves
to show her children, now all fat on mushrooms
and on berries, what would be safe to hunt.
The men go running on after beasts.
The scientists walk more slowly, over to the brow of the hill
and down to the water’s edge and past the place where the red clay runs.
They are carrying their babies in the slings they made,
freeing their hands to pick the mushrooms.
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THE MUSHROOM HUNTERS
Science, as you know, my little one, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe.
It’s based on observation, on experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe the facts revealed.
In the old times, they say, the men came already fitted with brains
designed to follow flesh-beasts at a run,
to hurdle blindly into the unknown,
and then to find their way back home when lost
with a slain antelope to carry between them.
Or, on bad hunting days, nothing.
The women, who did not need to run down prey,
had brains that spotted landmarks and made paths between them
left at the thorn bush and across the scree
and look down in the bole of the half-fallen tree,
because sometimes there are mushrooms.
Before the flint club, or flint butcher’s tools,
The first tool of all was a sling for the baby
to keep our hands free
and something to put the berries and the mushrooms in,
the roots and the good leaves, the seeds and the crawlers.
Then a flint pestle to smash, to crush, to grind or break.
And sometimes men chased the beasts
into the deep woods,
and never came back.
Some mushrooms will kill you,
while some will show you gods
and some will feed the hunger in our bellies. Identify.
Others will kill us if we eat them raw,
and kill us again if we cook them once,
but if we boil them up in spring water, and pour the water away,
and then boil them once more, and pour the water away,
only then can we eat them safely. Observe.
Observe childbirth, measure the swell of bellies and the shape of breasts,
and through experience discover how to bring babies safely into the world.
Observe everything.
And the mushroom hunters walk the ways they walk
and watch the world, and see what they observe.
And some of them would thrive and lick their lips,
While others clutched their stomachs and expired.
So laws are made and handed down on what is safe. Formulate.
The tools we make to build our lives:
our clothes, our food, our path home…
all these things we base on observation,
on experiment, on measurement, on truth.
And science, you remember, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe,
based on observation, experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe these facts.
The race continues. An early scientist
drew beasts upon the walls of caves
to show her children, now all fat on mushrooms
and on berries, what would be safe to hunt.
The men go running on after beasts.
The scientists walk more slowly, over to the brow of the hill
and down to the water’s edge and past the place where the red clay runs.
They are carrying their babies in the slings they made,
freeing their hands to pick the mushrooms.
Apr 29, 2017
Apr 17, 2017
Read millions of science articles
That's weird, I want to post this one on Facebook but I'm not allowed to. Probably because of the 'Unpaywall' and 'locked up' in the url. It ignores the 'legal' word though. Let's check if I can share it via my blog.
"Earlier this month, Impactstory, a nonprofit supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, launched, Unpaywall, a free browser extension that helps you “find open-access versions of paywalled research papers, instantly.”
As the co-founders of Impactstory describe it, Unpaywall is “an extension for Chrome and Firefox that links you to free full-text as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab and read it free!”"
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"Earlier this month, Impactstory, a nonprofit supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, launched, Unpaywall, a free browser extension that helps you “find open-access versions of paywalled research papers, instantly.”
As the co-founders of Impactstory describe it, Unpaywall is “an extension for Chrome and Firefox that links you to free full-text as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab and read it free!”"
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Mar 31, 2017
Max Cooper and Science
Max Cooper has a new science inspired project: Emergence. Listen and watch his latest video 'Unbounded' (video by Morgan Beringer).
Click here and here for more info
Unbounded (Official video by Morgan Beringer) from Max Cooper on Vimeo.
Click here and here for more info
Unbounded (Official video by Morgan Beringer) from Max Cooper on Vimeo.
Mar 25, 2017
Schrodinger's Cat
Schrodinger's Cat explained:
In the hypothetical experiment … a cat is placed in a sealed box along with a radioactive sample, a Geiger counter and a bottle of poison.
If the Geiger counter detects that the radioactive material has decayed, it will trigger the smashing of the bottle of poison and the cat will be killed.
The experiment was designed to illustrate the flaws of the ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics, which states that a particle exists in all states at once until observed.
If the Copenhagen interpretation suggests the radioactive material can have simultaneously decayed and not decayed in the sealed environment, then it follows the cat too is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
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In the hypothetical experiment … a cat is placed in a sealed box along with a radioactive sample, a Geiger counter and a bottle of poison.
If the Geiger counter detects that the radioactive material has decayed, it will trigger the smashing of the bottle of poison and the cat will be killed.
The experiment was designed to illustrate the flaws of the ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics, which states that a particle exists in all states at once until observed.
If the Copenhagen interpretation suggests the radioactive material can have simultaneously decayed and not decayed in the sealed environment, then it follows the cat too is both alive and dead until the box is opened.
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Mar 19, 2017
Oh Oh, men are disappearing
- Pollution is destroying men's genitals
- Phthalates, the plasticizer used to make vinyl soft, is affecting masculanity
- 'Fragile males' are more vulnerable than females to pollutants, affecting their development as early as the womb
- Antibacterial Cleaners do more harm than good
- Bisphenol, BPA. This act like a female hormone
- Endocrine disrupting chemicals: testicular cancer, infertility, a deformation of the penis
- The environment vs sperm count
Feb 26, 2017
Fingerprints are because of sweat glants
So, and now you know it. But this microscope timelapse video of the working of sweat glants ... ieeuuuww. Don't know why, it's just science, the works of your body ... but ... iieeuuuww
Feb 18, 2017
Sleep, we can't live without it ... unfortunately
Nice video with information about sleep. Now can anyone tell my brain to believe this and adapt accordingly?
Jan 1, 2017
Jul 15, 2014
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Jul 5, 2014
Nikola Tesla
Keep the memory of Nikola Tesla alive. Great! Ugly website, but nice content. Do you want to know anything about Tesla, click here (Tesla Memorial Society of New York).
Jun 21, 2014
Jun 18, 2014
May 31, 2014
"We Are Dead Stars"
WTF? Every atom in our body was fused in an ancient star?! I read the words but it's difficult to comprehend.
This video is a collaboration between The Atlantic and SoundVision Productions' The Really Big Questions.
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This video is a collaboration between The Atlantic and SoundVision Productions' The Really Big Questions.
May 14, 2014
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Phobos & Deimos
Phobos & Deimos, the two moons from Mars. Know more in 1:54. Animation by kurzgesagt.
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