SCIENCE! Interesting Articles

http://www.businessinsider.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-people-2010-11?op=1

WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IS COMMONLY BELIEVED, BUT NOT TRUE – You read by recognizing the shapes of words and groups of words. Words that are in all capital letters all have the same shape: a rectangle of a certain size. This makes words displayed in all uppercase harder to read than upper and lower case (known as “mixed case”).

47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself

A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING “WHY” CAN BE DANGEROUS

SARAH: Daddy, were you in the shower? DAD: Yes, I was in the shower. SARAH: Why?

http://www.scq.ubc.ca/a-dialogue-with-sarah-aged-3-in-which-it-is-shown-that-if-your-dad-is-a-chemistry-professor-asking-%e2%80%9cwhy%e2%80%9d-can-be-dangerous-5/

Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos

Scientists unveil tools for rewriting the code of life

MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits to the cell’s genome.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/editing-genome-0715.html

The Story of Cap & Trade

The Story of Mankind

Dan Dennett on our consciousness

Outsmarting the Liars: Toward a Cognitive Lie Detection Approach

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/20/1/28.full

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http://www.fastcompany.com/1580712/infographic-day-how-global-food-market-starves-poor

To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke . Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably waaaay over a kid's head. Just watch--it's excellent, and very well illustrated: The video begins with a basic question: How is it that the first world has an oversupply of food, while 1 in 7 in the world go malnourished? Basically, farmers in developing countries have eschewed growing local food crops in favor of growing things like cotton for international export.

Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor

Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369

When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics, he could hardly contain himself. For three straight days, his little brain buzzed with mathematical functions. From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.