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DarkStar1O9. Feel The Beat: Chrono Trigger- The Brink Of Time【クロノトリガ】 Awesome Music Game- Tone Matrix. The Art of Complex Problem Solving. 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies. Ten of the most influential social psychology experiments explain why we sometimes do dumb or irrational things. “I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures.Why do good people sometimes act evil?

Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” –Philip Zimbardo Like famous social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo (author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil), I’m also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people — something social psychologists have comprehensively shown. Each of the 10 brilliant social psychology experiments below tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day. Click the link in each social psychology experiment to get the full description and explanation of each phenomenon. 1. The halo effect is a finding from a famous social psychology experiment. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory. 5 Ways Stores Use Science to Trick You Into Buying Crap. #2. You Can't Comprehend Numbers The headlines after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad mostly focused on how inexpensive it was.

Only $499! That's a good price for a ... ... wait -- for a what? Also, why are we still doing the $_99 thing on our prices? Source Actually, no. Humans are really bad with numbers, and it manifests itself in a whole bunch of different ways in the world of retail. By the time you actually own this place the roof will have burrito stains. So when it comes to setting prices, sellers know that it's mostly up to them to frame for us what the price should be. As for the iPad's pleasant surprise price of $499? Why It Works: Picture three golf balls, lined up in a row. Now picture a box full of 4,258 golf balls. Not only can you not see in your head what 4,258 balls looks like, you probably don't even have a ballpark idea of how big of a box it would take.

The $499 vs $500 thing is a perfect example. Or "enough Ramen to get you through graduate school". Hooray for ignorance! #1. 10 More Common Faults in Human Thought. Humans This list is a follow up to Top 10 Common Faults in Human Thought. Thanks for everyone’s comments and feedback; you have inspired this second list! It is amazing that with all these biases, people are able to actually have a rational thought every now and then. There is no end to the mistakes we make when we process information, so here are 10 more common errors to be aware of. The confirmation bias is the tendency to look for or interpret information in a way that confirms beliefs.

The Availability heuristic is gauging what is more likely based on vivid memories. Illusion of Control is the tendency for individuals to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they clearly have no influence on. Interesting Fact: when playing craps in a casino, people will throw the dice hard when they need a high number and soft when they need a low number. The Planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate the time needed to complete tasks. Bonus Attribute Substitution. Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought. Humans The human mind is a wonderful thing. Cognition, the act or process of thinking, enables us to process vast amounts of information quickly. For example, every time your eyes are open, you brain is constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You may be consciously thinking about one specific thing, but you brain is processing thousands of subconscious ideas.

Unfortunately, our cognition is not perfect, and there are certain judgment errors that we are prone to making, known in the field of psychology as cognitive biases. The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not. Reactivity is the tendency of people to act or appear differently when they know that they are being observed. Pareidolia is when random images or sounds are perceived as significant. Interesting Fact: the Rorschach Inkblot test was developed to use pareidolia to tap into people’s mental states. Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist.

Alternative & Free Energy. Tools for creating ideas. Data Visualization. Super Creative Sites That Will Kick You In The Gut and Keep You Coming Back For More | The Nonsense Society. The following is my top 7 list of odd, zany, emotional websites that will kick you in the gut and keep you coming back for more.

These kinds of sites are consistently most inspiring to me. They have the raw emotion that I crave and feed off daily. Both the concept and content of all these sites are creative. I hope you agree… PostSecret Okay. A softer world This is an incredible combination of artsy photography and written word. A beautiful revolution I don’t think this one is as well known as the last 2, but it’s definitely a gold mine. Explodingdog A nonsensical name (totally my style), but an inspiring artist. Awful Drawings This dude emailed me as I was writing this post (believe it or not) and I’m totally into it.

FOUND Magazine Heard about this one a couple years ago and loved the concept. Nonsense Thoughts At the risk of looking like an ass-hole I am going to plug my own creation: Nonsense Thoughts. Visual Thesaurus. Tablet Fragments. Lost World under the North Sea. It also serves as a warning for the scale of impact that climate change can cause, Professor Gaffney says. Human communities would have lost their homelands as the rising water began to encroach upon the wide, low-lying plains. "At times this change would have been insidious and slow - but at times, it could have been terrifyingly fast.

It would have been very traumatic for these people," he says. [Some of the advances by the sea would have been similar to the widespread flooding of the English East Coast in 1953. That happened overnight as a result of strong winds and a particularly high tide, but in the case of the North Sea plains the floodwaters would not have receded - at least not completely, and not permanently.]

"It would be a mistake to think that these people were unsophisticated or without culture... they would have had names for the rivers and hills and spiritual associations - it would have been a catastrophic loss," says Professor Gaffney. Mystery at Abydos - Hall of Gods. In 1848, an archaeological expedition working in Egypt discovered strange hieroglyphs on a ceiling beam at an ancient temple in Abydos, several hundred miles south of Cairo.

The hieroglyphs were carefully copied and brought back to Europe. The mysterious images gave rise to heated debate amongst Egyptologists. Eventually, however, they were dismissed as bizarre objects that nobody could adequately explain and were forgotten. In the mid 1990's photographs and videos, taken primarily by tourists who had visited Abydos, began to appear on the internet. They depicted the 'strange machine hieroglyphs' originally discovered in the nineteenth century. The temple in which they were found was built by Pharaoh Seti I around three thousand years ago. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the ancient high-tech machinery glyphs have been dismissed out of hand by modern Egyptologists. Re-carving of inscriptions was a common phenomenon in ancient Egypt. See also: Who Built the Great Pyramid?

Ancient underwater cities being found that are 10,000 years old. Lost city 'could rewrite history' By BBC News Online's Tom Housden The remains of what has been described as a huge lost city may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history.

Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 meters (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old. The vast city - which is five miles long and two miles wide - is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years. The site was discovered by chance last year by oceanographers from India's National Institute of Ocean Technology conducting a survey of pollution. Using sidescan sonar - which sends a beam of sound waves down to the bottom of the ocean they identified huge geometrical structures at a depth of 120ft. Lost civilization The city is believed to be even older than the ancient Harappan civilization, which dates back around 4,000 years.

Continued... 12,000 Years Old Unexplained Structure Video. Log in Civilization Cynthia Yildirim 12,000 Years Old Unexplained Structure Göbekli Tepe, is a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge some 15 km northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa, in southeastern Turkey and 500 miles away from Istanbul, Turkey. Posted 3 years ago jimun gimm liked this ben liked this dpritch liked this Shannon Loggins liked this Tyler Terrell liked this Yogesh Mankani liked this moseljack liked this © 2014 Redux, Inc. About redux | contact us | copyright | legal.

Sumerians. Ancient City Found in India, Irradiated from Atomic Blast. Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built. For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction. The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators' gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people.

The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent. A Historian Comments "Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings of giant parasols. Bibliography 1. The Epic of gilgamesh. Visual Thinking. SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES. Physics. Space. Ancient Astronauts Photo Gallery.

Video. Ancient Art Work and UFOS - Petroglyphs Part 4 - The Bible UFO Connection. Eyewitness. Abduction. 12,000 B.C. - China's First Alien Encounter - ARE THERE ALIENS AMONG US ???? - Care2.com. Who Are The Arcturian Aliens | Arcturian Aliens | Arcturians. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble. Astronomy. Univ.jpg. Universe captured in mind-boggling detail by Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Science. It is the culmination of a decade spent scanning the night skies and would take half a million high-definition televisions to view at its full resolution. With more than a trillion pixels, this is the most detailed digital picture of the universe ever produced.

It replaces an image that is now over half a century old, created on photographic plates by the Palomar Sky Survey in the 1950s but still used by astronomers today. By contrast, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's third and final release of data (SDSS-III) was created using a 138-megapixel camera attached to a 2.5 metre telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. It contains 10 times as many objects – such as galaxies, stars and nebulae – as the Palomar survey and scientists hope it will be used for decades to come by astronomers hunting for everything from dark matter to planets orbiting other stars. Each pixel contains data in five different colours of light. Click to expand the picture above. Logarithmic Maps of the Universe. This website contains figures from "Map of the Universe" e-print, by Gott, Juric et al. The paper has been published in the Astrophysical Journal (Gott et al., 2005, ApJ, 624, 463), and you can also find the manuscript here (note: Figure 8. of the manuscript has been published as an inset poster, and has to be downloaded separately (see below)).

Note to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox users: your browser will automatically shrink the large maps once they're loaded. Click on the shrunk image to bring it back to its full size and be able to scroll it. To print the map, print out the individual sheets and tape them together to make a wall map.

Space Anomalies. Day of Remembrance. The Unsolved Mystery of Saturn's Hexagon -4 Times the Size of Earth. "Cassini is indebted to Voyager for its many fascinating discoveries and for pavingthe way for Cassini," says Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL, who started her career working on Voyager from 1977 to 1989. "On Cassini, we still compare our data to Voyager's and proudly build on Voyager's heritage. " But the Voyager Mission left a few mysteries that Cassini has not yet solved.

One of the most perplexing mysteries is Saturn's hexagpn. NASA scientists first spotted a hexagonal weather pattern when they stitched together Voyager images of Saturn's north pole. Cassini has obtained higher-resolution pictures of the hexagon – which tells scientists it's a remarkably stable wave in one of the jet streams that remains 30 years later – but scientists are still not sure what forces maintain the object. After the sunlight faded, darkness shrouded the north pole for 15 years. The hexagon was originally discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. Twinkling Stars May Reveal Human-Size Wormholes | Wired Science. If wormholes big enough to fit a human or a spaceship exist, telescopes should be able to detect any wavering starlight the space-time shortcuts cause while moving in front of a distant star.

Star brightness would fluctuate from a wormhole because of gravitational lensing, caused when a massive object (such as a galaxy) warps the fabric of space and bends light around it. The effect, which resembles the distortion of objects behind a thick lens, exaggerates with increasingly massive objects. When it comes to wormhole hunting, said Nagoya University astrophysicist Fumio Abe, looking for the distant signatures of smaller gravitational lenses, called microlenses, is the way to go. “Gravitational microlensing in stars has already been observed, but the variation of the brightness by a wormhole would be different from any ordinary star,” said Abe, whose wormhole-detecting methodology appears Dec. 10 in The Astrophysical Journal.

“If they do turn out to exist, I’ll be ecstatic,” Visser said. SKY-MAP.ORG. There's a Hole in the Sun! And it’s leaking plasma into space… This rather dramatic photograph of the sun was taken on Feb. 1 by the Japanese-led Hinode (pronounced hi-node-ay) solar mission currently orbiting the Earth. The 5-year old spacecraft can see the sun in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray wavelengths, so it is especially adept at seeing multi-million degree solar plasma. In this image, two large dark “coronal holes” can be seen. SLIDE SHOW: 5 Ways the Solar Wind Will Blow You Away As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, the solar atmosphere — or “corona” — is hotter than the sun’s surface. In this image, the spacecraft has imaged the solar corona in X-ray wavelengths, so only the hottest coronal plasma can be seen. The solar surface is twisted with magnetic field lines and within those magnetic loops (known, unsurprisingly, as “coronal loops”) solar plasma is trapped, accelerated, heated and pulled back to the solar surface — producing a phenomenon called “coronal rain.”

Image: The X-ray sun (JAXA) Up Telescope: A New Planet Has Scientists Agog -- Science & Technology. NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System. Dark Twin (Sun's binary partner) Cosmos At Least 250x Bigger Than Visible Universe, Say Cosmologists  Longstanding mystery of Sun's hot outer atmosphere solved. The universe's most massive stars can form in near isolation, new study finds. NASA probe sends dazzling images of comet - Technology & science - Space - Space.com. Stellarium.

Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Universes -- Science & Technology. Most Distant Quasar Found. 'Zombie' stars key to measuring dark energy. Milky Way's Galactic Neighbourhood Puzzles Astronomers  BREAKING -- NASA Announces DISCOVERS BLACK HOLE ERUPTION! 'Odd Couple' Binary Makes Dual Gamma-ray Flares. Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D. Solar Breeze. Long-lasting goodshielding at the equatorial ionosphere. Bright galaxy sheds light on early Universe. 'Odd Couple' Binary Makes Dual Gamma-ray Flares.

NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy. Saturn Moon Has Oxygen Atmosphere. Incredible Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock. Last.fm. Music Roamer. Drum Machine Online - OneMotion.com. Gnoosic - Discover new Music. Pandora Internet Radio. StumbleAudio. The Music Maze.