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The Subway Map of Science [Chart]
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Interconnecting natural philosophy, theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, natural history, geology and paleontology, genetics, chemistry, microbiology, neurology, medicine, and even the closed Chemistry line, this map of the subway is an interesting summary of human sciences. The map-subtitle Science, Reason & ...
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How Did This Guy Not Freeze His Hand Off in a Jar of Liquid Nitrogen? [Science]
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File this under don't try at home, but there is a safe and painless technique to dip your hand into liquid nitrogen. The secret? The Leidenfrost effect, which briefly shields your hand from -320° temps with a layer of bubbles. PopSci's extremely brave Theodore Gray trusts ...
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There Is Such Thing As Dry Water [Science]
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Don't question me what voodoo they used but scientists have created dry water. Well, they originally invented it back in 1968 but they've recently re-discovered it and this time, found an exact use for it. First, dry water, how does that even make sense? Ben Carter, Ph.D, the researcher, explains: [It's] is called " dry ...
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Do Different Languages Equal Different Realities? [Science]
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We usually assume words are just a fashion of expressing ideas already in our heads. But what if it's the opposite direction around? Some linguists say the languages we speak fundamentally alter the manner we predict, and even perceive reality. The most recent York Times explores ...
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Yellow Gold: How Your Urine Could Save the sector [Science]
Why let your waste go to waste when it can be powering your cell phone-or maybe your car? It is a bright spring morning here at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, where I actually have come to satisfy my interviewee for this newsletter, Shanwen Tao . Normally after I interview ...
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Science Fiction Dioramas Created Using Recycled Ink Cartridges [Republished]
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Artist Faith Pearson took empty ink cartridges and used them as the building blocks for these wonderfully demented scenes from Star Trek, Godzilla, and King Kong. It's incredible how futuristic our 21st century garbage can appear. [Via I Am B] Source
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Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked [Mad Science]
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Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Learn the way shining a gentle on the statues will also be that's required to look them the manner they were thousands of years ago. Although it sort of feels impossible to think that anything may well be left ...
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Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art [Space]
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We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope's visualization team concerning the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission's reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. In a shared office on the southern edge of Caltech's campus, Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are making art out of science. Armed with the industry standards–Photoshop, ...
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The Secret of Beer Coggles Discovered [Science]
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British researchers have discovered why alcohol drinking makes other folks look better. This is because linked to humans' preference for symmetrical faces. Bad news for girls: You get more plagued by the beer goggles than men. By nature, humans find symmetry beautiful, but alcohol affects the component to the brain it really is capable of detecting ...
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The Living Kitchen Project Imagines A Gesture-Based Future [Science]
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Could Claytronics make the straightforward act of preparing a meal as interactive and interesting as a online game? Michaël Harboun explores the longer term of everyday objects with the Living Kitchen Project. Claytronics is a technology concept that relies on nano-sized computers which can join together to form interactive 3D objects. Imagine walking up to ...
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Orgies or Beer? You Only Get One [Science!]
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In Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá put to lie the notion of sexual monogamy as something intrinsically human, arguing we gave up sexual novelty for agriculture. \" Agriculture\" probably means \" beer\" . We gave up orgies for beer? As a lover of both booze and sex alike, it\'s essentially the mostsome ...
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iPhones Users Have Twice as Much Sex as Android Users (Plus! Sexiest Cameras) [Science]
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In keeping with 11 million plus images indexed by users of dating site OK Cupid, iPhone users get laid twice as often as Android users. If you\'re anything like me, you mostly think about your pics in relation to content: Here\'s me smiling. Here\'s me looking tough. Here\'s me in Hawaii with that wacky turtle. Etc. ...
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Walkman Outsold iPod in Japan During August [Apple]It's party time for Sony, as the planets of consumerism aligned to earn it a unprecedented win over Apple's iPod music-playing range. It's the first time Walkman has outsold Apple's music players inside the region since iPod arrived in 2001. Sony had to make a number of sacrifices with the intention to win back musical market share, though, aggressively under-cutting the cost of its rival.![A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]](http://nexgadget.com/images/A-DualBooting-Tablet-Running-Android-Sounds-Barmy-Viewsonic-Tablets_tuTo-_0.jpg)
A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 's specs. I don't think anyone shall be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even supposing Windows 7 's also there too. I can't consider many the explanation why someone would need a dual-booting tablet, but obviously dual-booting laptops (running something like