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Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it’s just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest.
Carbon-Scrubbing Artificial Trees for Boston City Streets | Applied Sciences
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It’s said that Albert Einstein once commented that the most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.
The video below shows scientific proof that there is something NOT quite logical or scientific about this universe.
This Will Mindfuck You: The Double-Slit Experiment | High Existence
Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory
The natural world is an amazing thing, and despite the volumes upon volumes that we know about it, we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to truly understanding our universe and the things within it. Yet just because there's so much information out there doesn't mean you shouldn't try to learn as much as you can about science. These lectures reflect information that's at the cutting edge, from medical discoveries that could change lives to astrophysical research that's expanding our knowledge of the worlds that lie beyond our own galaxy, and they can help you get an education in some of the greatest wonders the scientific fields have to offer.
25 Awe-Inspiring Science Talks on TED | Bachelor's Degree Online
Zdenek Kalal's object tracking algorithm learns on the fly, likely to make next 007 flick (video) -- Engadget
Microsoft's own OneVision Video Recognizer may be novel, but if the folks in Redmond are seriously looking to take things next-level, they should probably cast their gaze across the pond.
Some ideas we came up with (all part formed at the moment but I’ll probably forget unless I post now) that I'll share with everyone for comment/addition/correction...