January 2012
73 posts
“Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan (via discoverynews)
December 2011
50 posts
Professors propose a new calendar that syncs dates...
iheartchaos:
A pair of professors from Johns Hopkins University have proposed a new calendar that always syncs days of the week with days of the year, so that for example, Christmas would always fall on a Sunday, Memorial Day would always be on Monday, May 28th etc. They say their new calendar would end up saving time and money, by being able to always use the same calendar year after year, as...
DiscoveryNews: Is This Really the World's Funniest... →
discoverynews:
Back in 2002, researchers at the University of Herfordshire wanted to find the “world’s funniest joke.”
To find the answer, Richard Wiseman a Professor of Psychology at the university started a program called LaughLab to ascertain the answer to that very complex research question. The question…
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Portraits of Marines before, during and after war...
iheartchaos:
In an effort to try to document the impact serving in Afghanistan has on a person, photographer Claire Felicie began a project entitled Marked in 2009, after her eldest son had enrolled as a marine. The series, which spans from 2009 to 2010, follows 20 young soldiers on their tour of duty in the 1st Battalion, 13th infantry company of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, taking...
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Massive 1100 year old Mayan site discovered in the...
iheartchaos:
Around 800 years ago, the Mayan empire in Mexico was beginning its rapid decline. As the civilization began to collapse, some Maya didn’t stick around to watch the Spanish finish it off. Instead, they fled north into what is now the southern US. The largest northern Mayan site was recently discovered somewhere that you wouldn’t normally think of having Maya… the mountains of...
Self-healing electronic chips will make for much...
iheartchaos:
Electronics have brought us so many wonderful things, but the components are very sensitive, and even very very slight damage to the right piece of a chip or a board and the whole thing can get wonky. But in the future, electronics could be self-healing to correct any problems before they become a problem.
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Awesome metal band logos for shitty pop musicians
iheartchaos:
Made by Mark Hall-Platch. Maybe some of these “musicians” would get a little more street cred with some evil band logos.
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jtotheizzoe:
Just keep in mind that every time you look at the Sun, it could have exploded and disappeared 5 minutes ago, because its light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth.
Cherish every sunbeam or something.
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74% →
jtotheizzoe:
That’s the amount of climate change attributed specifically to man-made activities, according to a new study. More at Nature News.
A Look at NASA's 2012 Budget →
discoverynews:
The space agency will get $17.8 billion — that’s $648 million less than last year’s funding and $924 million below what the President had asked for. But it’s still better than the $16.8 billion proposed earlier this year by the House of Representatives.
To most people, $17.8 billion is a huge amount of money. And it absolutely is, but not when you’re NASA and have multiple...
Calibre - Open Your Eyes →
Beautiful.
