What's on the Golden Record. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al.
Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N.
Secretary General Waldheim. "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. " - Carl Sagan Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. Astronomy Picture of the Day. Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers: A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional Office Environments. Banana/Blueberry/Egg Ingredients Poster PDFs. Here are high-resolution PDFs of all three posters.
Free to use. Feedback welcome. Click each image to download the PDF poster. About these posters: As a Chemistry teacher, I want to erode the fear that many people have of “chemicals”, and demonstrate that nature evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated and unpredictable than anything we can produce in the lab. Like this: Like Loading... Related On a Podcast, I Explain Why I Made These Graphics I went on a science podcast explaining why I made the Banana posters. In "News" Ingredients of an All-Natural Egg This is the last of three posters in the "ingredients" series.
In "ALL-NATURAL BANANA and other fruits" "Ingredients" Lesson Plan People have been asking me for the lesson plan that gave rise to the Banana Posters. Colliding Particles - A series of films by Mike Paterson following research in particle physics at the LHC. The Scale of the Universe 2. Science, Space and Technology News. 47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself. 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”). Mixed case words are easier to read because they make unique shapes, as demonstrated by the picture below. OK, NOW THE TRUE STUFF STARTS — When I started this article the topic was supposed to be why all capital letters are harder to read. Like most people with a usability background or a cognitive psychology background, I can describe the research — just what I wrote in the first paragraph above. The research doesn’t exist, or “It’s complicated” — Something happened when I went to find the research on the shape of words and how that is related to all capital letters being harder to read. The Origin of Consciousness. Publisher: Mariner Books Copyright © 1976,1990 by Julian Jaynes Publication Date: 2000 Subject: Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Philology Keywords: Consciousness, History, Bicamerality, Bicameral Mind, Auditory Hallucinations, Ancient Mentality, Schizophrenia, Hypnosis, Posession, Oracles Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN): 0618057072 / 0-618-05707-2 PDF 476 pages, 3.1 MB, Tagged PDF.
Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative. ScienceDump. Space.com. Photopic 360 Sky Survey. The Universe in Colour. Space. Krulwich Wonders... The soul is bone. 16th April 2014 Post with 3 notes Some Cemeteries Part II here 16th April 2014 Photo with 388 notes This is the colourful candy-striped land snail (Liguus virgineus), and it’s only found on Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Top photo credit: Miguel A. 16th April 2014 Photo with 158 notes Postmortem corneal clouding with tache noire. 16th April 2014 Photo with 282 notes The mineral heliotrope, also known as bloodstone, is a form of chalcedony. 16th April 2014 Photo with 153 notes A carcass of an elephant killed by poachers in a Kenyan wildlife reserve. Photo credit: David Sheldrick/Wildlife Trust 15th April 2014 Photo with 334 notes The Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae. Photo credit: Ben Fitzgerald 15th April 2014 Photo with 695 notes The abandoned Bislingen mountain lodge in Norway stands empty on an icy mountainside, this abandoned ski lodge is being reclaimed by the frozen environment it was built to serve.
Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science.