May 10, 2013 2 Comments
How much of your life do you take for granted?
I challenge you to close your eyes the next time you engage in any activity (making coffee, getting dressed, typing, etc.)- start with simple things. With that thought in mind check out this short video clip: Read more of this post
April 27, 2013 Leave a Comment
The SKA Logo
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope when it is completed.
Using Interferometry, which is the linking together of radio telescopes to create a larger virtual telescope known as an Interferometer, the SKA will combine thousands of linked radio wave receptors that will be located in Australia and Southern Africa. Ten countries across these two continents will share the location of this mind-boggling project.
ALL SIGNALS FROM THE ANTENNAS IN EACH REGION WILL COMBINE and create a collecting area equivalent to A DISH WITH AN AREA OF ABOUT 1,000,000 METERS. Read more of this post
April 27, 2013 1 Comment
Edgar Dean Mitchell was selected by NASA to be an Astronaut in 1966. His first position was as a backup lunar-module pilot on the Apollo 10 mission – but he literally soon found himself on another planet! Read more of this post
February 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
Music is not only able to affect your mood — listening to particularly happy or sad music can even change the way we perceive the world, according to researchers from the University of Groningen.
Visual perception is not a passive process: in order to efficiently process visual input, the brain actively uses previous knowledge (e.g., memory) and expectations about what the world should look like. Conscious experience does not only reflect “what is out there”, but also our previous knowledge and expectation. Read more of this post
February 10, 2013 4 Comments
Designed by some of America’s most visionary Founders during the revolutionary birth of our nation, the Great Seal is the carefully crafted message they created to convey their vision to the world, and to the future. Read more of this post
January 14, 2013 Leave a Comment
When you can’t feel individual keys on a touchscreen device it can be hard to type at speed.
That is why Tactus, a company based in California, has developed technology which can turn a typical flat tablet screen into a real keyboard with bumpy buttons.
The keyboard rises from the tablet when needed, before disappearing when the typing is done.
Micah Yairi from Tactus explained how it works:
January 3, 2013 1 Comment
Children are sent to school to earn “credits” and to learn to memorize, not to learn what they want in life. Why does this system endeavor to promote memorization and not self-realization?
Does the current education system cleverly take over the minds of children before they learn how to use their mind?
“After all, the only thing of enduring value to any human being is a working knowledge of his own mind.” Read more of this post
December 27, 2012 12 Comments
How are they connected? In many, many more ways than I could have ever imagined. Read more of this post
December 23, 2011 3 Comments
An amazing chance encounter with a troop of wild mountain gorillas near Bwindi National Park, Uganda.
