Medicine. Animals. Physics & Chemistry. Universe. Dark Chocolate Is Good For You - And Now We Finally Know Why! Dark chocolate is one of the most delicious substances known to man, and it has the added benefit of being fairly good for you in moderation. A study led by Diederik Esser from Wageningen University in the Netherlands has shown that ingesting dark chocolate can actually improve vascular health. The results were published in The FASEB Journal. Before we go any further, it needs to be made quite clear that studies referring to the benefit of dark chocolate are not talking about your average Hershey’s bar. Typical candy bars have a low cocoa percentage and much larger amounts of sugar and fat, which negate any incurred health benefit, if not actually making it worse. The forty-four study participants were all middle-aged men who were overweight.
After the study’s completion, participants were found to have an increased flexibility in their arteries, which is likely staving off atherosclerosis and improving blood flow. Google: Simuliertes Gehirn erkennt Katzen. Forscher des Google X Labors haben 1000 Computer miteinander verknüpft und so ein künstliches Gehirn erschaffen. Die daraus resultierende Leistung wurde zu einem bedeutenden Vorgang genutzt: Dem Finden und Erkennen von Katzenfotos. Dazu hatten Googles Forscher mit Wissenschaftlern der Stanford-Universität zusammengearbeitet und das neuronale Netzwerk (bestehend aus 1000 Computern beziehungsweise 16.000 Prozessoren mit mehr als einer Milliarde Verbindungen) mit zehn Millionen Screenshots gefüttert, die zuvor zufällig aus YouTube-Videos extrahiert worden waren.
Daraus hat dieses dann selbstständig 20.000 unterschiedliche Gegenstände identifiziert. Katzen wurden dabei neben Menschen am besten erkannt. Die Wissenschaftler haben das System zuvor nicht mit den spezifischen visuellen Merkmalen von Katzen versorgt. Das heißt, das künstliche Gehirn hat selbstständig herausgefunden, wie es die Katzen auf den Bildern erkennt. Felix Baumgartner’s historic jump. On October 14, 2012, over 8 million people watched live as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner made history by skydiving out of a balloon around 39 kilometers (24 miles) off Earth’s surface. During his 4 minute, 19 second drop, he reached a top speed of 1,357.6 km/h (843.6 mph) and became the first person to break the sound barrier outside of a vehicle.
A new video has been released, detailing Baumgartner’s point of view during the descent from two GoPros connected to his suit. Though the free fall started out quite stable, Baumgartner began to lose control right around the time he hit Mach 1. He began to spin uncontrollably and the additional force took such a toll on his body, he nearly lost consciousness. Fortunately, he was able to recover, deploy his chute on time, and land on his feet after jumping out of a balloon in the stratosphere.
WARNING: Because of the spinning, this can be a little hard to watch for those with vertigo and vertigo-associated disorders. Retten Sie die Schneeleoparden! - WWF-Patenschaft. Der Schneeleopard ist perfekt an die rauen Lebensbedingungen im Hochgebirge angepasst. Trotzdem ist sein Überleben in Gefahr. Brutale Wilderer ermorden ihn wegen seines wunderschönen Fells und Bauern töten ihn oft aus Rache für gejagte Nutztiere wie Yaks oder Schafe.
Wir müssen jetzt schnell handeln! Schon 7€ im Monat helfen! Gemeinsam mit der lokalen Bevölkerung Nepals setzt sich der WWF für das Ende der Wilderei und ein harmonisches Miteinander von Mensch und Tier ein. 7€ im Monat reichen aus um einfache Herdenschutzmaßnahmen umzusetzen.10€ im Monat finanzieren eine einwöchige Patrouille eines Schneeleoparden-Schützers vor Ort. Diesen süßen Plüschleoparden, eine persönliche Patenurkunde, unser Pandamagazin, einen exklusiven Patenreport und den WWF-Newsletter.Helfen Sie mit – nur mit Ihrer Unterstützung retten wir die Schneeleoparden! Ärzte ohne Grenzen: Sofort helfen. Read a Novel in 90 Minutes With A Smartphone App. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has 76,944 words that span 309 pages. How long would it take you to read that? If you have an average reading speed of 200 words per minute, it will take nearly six and a half hours to get through Harry’s first year of Hogwarts.
Thanks to a new program called Spritz, that time should be shaved down to a mere 77 minutes. Seriously. The premise is based on a what Spritz calls a “optimal recognition point” (ORP) within a word that allows you to identify it. They believe that significantly more time is spent moving your eyes along the page and searching for the next ORP than is actually spent processing the word. The speed at which the words pop up can be set by the individual user.
The base speed of 250 wpm: 350 wpm: 500 wpm: Sure, you can see words pop up quickly, but how much does the reader actually understand? After three years of development, Spritz is now in beta testing on the Android platform. Image credit: Spritz. Incredible Visualization of European Air Traffic. So there you are, sitting on the tarmac and waiting for your flight to take off. You were supposed to leave seven minutes ago, so what could possibly taking this long? Do they even know how to fly that thing? Where is the flight attendant? How many planes are flying at any given time, really? NATS, a UK air traffic control company, decided to compile data from 48 hours worth of air traffic over Europe. The video has been sped up to be about 1440 times faster than real life, reducing 48 hours down to 2 minutes. According to NATS, the distance that is flown over Europe each day is roughly 25 million nautical miles; enough to complete 104 trips to the moon, or orbit the Earth 998 times.
So please, the next time you’re about to participate in the scientific marvel that is human flight, take a moment to appreciate the massive endeavor of controlling that hectic airspace before you complain to the flight attendant. Europe 24 from NATS on Vimeo.