NEIL ARMSTRONG: A giant among men. Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science. Tetris effect. Screenshot of a tetromino game.
People who play video puzzle games like this for a long time may see moving images like this at the edges of their visual fields, when they close their eyes, or when they are drifting off to sleep. The Tetris effect (also known as Tetris Syndrome) occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game Tetris. Other examples[edit] The Tetris effect can occur with other video games.[2] It has also been known to occur with non-video games, such as the illusion of curved lines after doing a jigsaw puzzle, or the involuntary mental visualisation of Rubik's Cube algorithms common amongst speedcubers.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation. To Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The Pronouns : Shots - Health Blog. Hide captionPeople who are interested in and paying close attention to each other begin to speak more alike, a psychologist says. iStockphoto.com People who are interested in and paying close attention to each other begin to speak more alike, a psychologist says.
On a recent Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses. Photos via GoogleGoogle showed off its first venture into wearable computing, called Project Glass.
Self-sculpting sand. Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool.
A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it’s the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May — the world’s premier robotics conference — DRL researchers will present a paper describing algorithms that could enable such “smart sand.”
The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson. How the Potato Changed the World. Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (Revisited) : The Scientific Activist. Back in August, I reported on an ACMD study buried in the back of a UK government report.
The study gave strong evidence that the current drug classification scheme in the UK was fundamentally flawed and was not based on the actual danger of a given drug. The study has now been published in this week’s issue of The Lancet. Homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/busslab/pdffiles/Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism - Final Published 2011.pdf. When Truisms Are True. Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011. IBM's "neurosynaptic" chips are the closest thing to a synthetic brain yet.
A nice, clear, and mostly correct statement.
Online gamers have managed to solve a decade-old scientific puzzle. In three weeks. Sci-ence! A Skeptical Comic and Blog. ROBO-ONE 13: Taekwon-V vs. Garoo. Researchers evolve a multicellular yeast in the lab in 2 months. Are smart people ugly? The Explainer's 2011 Question of the Year. Illlustration by Charlie Powell.
BBC Nature - Chimpanzees consider their audience when communicating. 29 December 2011Last updated at 17:01 By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature The chimps made soft "hoo" sounds to warn individuals that had not seen the threat Chimpanzees appear to consider who they are "talking to" before they call out. Cagebreak! Rats Will Work To Free A Trapped Pal. Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time.
Does taking medication for cold symptoms delay your body's ability to fight the illness? : askscience. List of common misconceptions. This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive.
This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature. Note that each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. History Ancient to early modern history Modern history. Blindness eased by historic stem cell treatment - health - 25 January 2012. For the first time since they were discovered 13 years ago, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have shown medical promise.
Two people with eye degeneration both say their vision improved in the four months after they received implants of retinal pigment epithelial cells made from hESCs. The treatments were also safe, with no sign that the cells triggered aggressive tumours called teratomas, no sign of immune rejection of the cells, and no inflammation. Discovered in 1998, hESCs had previously failed to deliver on their medical promise. The new procedures, performed by Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, and colleagues, could represent a turning point for hESC therapies. Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration. Postgraduate Medical Journalpmj.bmj.com 1973;49:203-209 doi:10.1136/pgmj.49.569.203 Case report Abstract.
Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don’t. Lara Thompson was 26 when her life fell apart. She was living in Rhode Island and working in HIV prevention research when she unexpectedly developed nausea and diarrhea. HIV Treatment as Prevention.
My Man, Sir Isaac Newton. NASA Beams Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space. NASA Beams Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4. The transmission over NASA's Deep Space Network commemorated the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the group's beginnings. Two other anniversaries also are being honored: The launch 50 years ago this week of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, and the founding 45 years ago of the Deep Space Network, an international network of antennas that supports missions to explore the universe. The transmission was aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light years away from Earth.