Can You Find The Six Words Hidden In These Pictures? If you are like most people on the Internet (and, indeed, the world), you highly enjoy solving puzzles, finding things in pictures, and then letting everyone know you are intellectually capable of doing so. Isn't that what Facebook is all about, after all? Flaunting superiority? Or maybe it's just fun. Finding shit is an A+ procrastination activity, after all. Those puzzles we've been solving — finding pandas, more pandas, still more pandas, Wookies, one more panda, cats, '90s bands...what better way to pass the time at work? You already know where this is going...that's right! highlights 1. How'd you do? puzzlesworld 1. And now this one (six words, again): puzzlesworld 1. How do you feel? More: Can You Find All The '90s Bands Hidden In This Picture?
Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Baths, houses, tools and other possessions (including plenty of wine bottles), frescoes, graffiti, an ampitheater, an aqueduct, the "Villa of the Mysteries": Pompeii has it all, as far as the stuff of first-century Roman life goes. The ash-preserved ruins of Pompeii, more than any other source, have provided historians with a window into just what life in that time and place was like. As inherently compelling as we find the story of Pompeii, modern drama has struggled to capture the power of the disaster that defines it. Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? via Metafliter Related Content: Visit Pompeii (also Stonehenge & Versailles) with Google Street View
This is what a world map looks like if you're colourblind In an average audience of eight men and eight women, there's a 50 per cent chance that at least one person has a degree of colour blindness. A reddit user, Renno Hokwerda, posted a brief series of maps to Imgur to highlight the difficulties faced by some in interpreting colour coded maps. Hokwerda told indy100 that he used Coblis, an online tool which attempts to replicate how some colour-blind people will see certain images: I am not an expert on colour-blindness at all, nor am I myself colour-blind. As Hokwerd says, the tool is not 100 per cent accurate, nor does it cover all forms of colour-blindness, but it does serve as a decent introduction to the subject. You can use the tool, as we have below, to reproduce images with a certain colour palette. Look at how the London Underground map, for example, appears with different perceptions of colour. Original: Achromatomoly (blue cone monochromacy): Achromatopsia (monochromacy): Deuteranomaly (green-weak): Deuteranopia (green-blind):
Fysiktentamen på Köpenhamns Universitet SUBJECT: FYSIKTENTAMEN PÅ KÖPENHAMNS UNIVERSITET FROM: Håkan Nilsson <xxx.xxx.xxx.*> DATE: 2006-03-06 Följande handlar om en fråga på en fysiktentamen på Köpenhamns Universitet: Beskriv hur man kan bestämma en skyskrapas höjd med hjälp av en barometer. En student svarade: Man binder ett långt snöre om barometern och sänker den sedan från skyskrapans tak ner till marken. Detta högst originella svar retade examinatorn till den grad att han kuggade studenten som överklagade eftersom hans svar obestridligen var rätt och universitetet tillsatte en opartisk skiljedomare. I fem minuter satt studenten tyst och tänkte intensivt. När han uppmanades att skynda på svarade studenten som följer: Först och främst skulle man kunna ta med sig barometern upp på skyskrapans tak, släppa den över kanten och mäta den tid det tar för den att nå marken. Eller om solen skiner kan man mäta barometerns längd, sätta den i marken och mäta längden på dess skugga.
Uudet muunteluoikeudet käytännössä Opetuksen kopiointilupaan on lisätty vuoden 2016 alusta alkaen muunteluoikeus opetuksessa. Uudet lupaehdot sisältävät kaksi uutta pykälää, jotka kattavat käännös- ja muunteluoikeudet. Minkälaisia muunnelmia saa siis tehdä ja millä rajoituksilla? Muunteluoikeudet on mainittu digiluvan lupaehdoissa (peruskoulu ja lukio, ammatilliset oppilaitokset) pykälissä 8 ja 9. Käännös- ja muunteluoikeudet koskevat sekä opettajia ja oppilaita. Käännöksiä ja muunnelmia saa Kopioston luvalla tehdä harjoitustöinä osana opetustilannetta. Oleellista on, että nämä käännös- ja muunteluoikeudet koskevat kaikkea tekijänoikeudella suojattua aineistoa poislukien sävellysteokset, kustannetut oppikirjat (ja -materiaalit) ja laulujen sanoitukset. Käännöstehtävät on katettu lupaehtojen pykälässä 8 ja niissä on laajempia oikeuksia kuin muunlaisissa muunteluissa. Muut muuntelutavat ovat lupaehtojen pykälässä 9 ja niissä on hieman enemmän rajoitteita.
Like Brain Teasers? This DIY Puzzle “Nails” It I love brain teasers and wood-based puzzles and this is a good one that you can easily make yourself. Basically, all you need is a chunk of pine, a nail, and some boiling water (oh, and a saw and a drill). It’s called the “Tooth and Nail” puzzle, and it appears to be an optical illusion. It is not. SPOILER ALERT: How this works is fascinating. Gareth Branwyn Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. How to Arrange Presentation Slides Like a Graphic Designer | Visual Learning Center by Visme We’ve all been there. We’ve all been forced to follow a presentation that lost our interest within the first few minutes, maybe even seconds. What was it exactly that triggered the sudden boredom? It turns out that our brains are incredible machines. Although we may not be conscious of it, within the first 30 to 60 seconds of a presentation, we’ve already processed millions of stimuli and made judgments about the speaker’s likability and credibility. While our verdicts are mostly swayed one way or another by a presenter’s body language and what is said, a lot also depends on the visual elements that are used to support the speaker’s message. Just think back to all the presentations you’ve seen with cluttered slides, distracting clipart and ill-chosen images, and remember how this led you to consider their messages a little less seriously. To help you avoid this same fate for your future presentations, we’ve created a guide for arranging elements on your slides like a pro designer. 1 Contrast
This Is the Tech That Will Make Learning as Addictive as Video Games The way we learn today is just wrong. Learning needs to be less like memorization, and more like…Angry Birds. Half of school dropouts name boredom as the number one reason they left. How do we get our kids to want to learn? The post is about why the future of education will be about flipping our current model on its head and about how key exponential technologies like AI, VR and gamification are going to drive a revolution in education. For fun, here's a video summary of this post. From A's to Angry Birds In the traditional education system, you start at an "A," and every time you get something wrong, your score gets lower and lower. In the gaming world, it's just the opposite. You start with zero, and every time you come up with something right, your score gets higher and higher. It completely flips the way we currently learn, and it's addictively fun. How addicting? Over 155 million Americans play video games, and spend upwards of 3 billion hours per week engrossed in a game. Peter Diamandis Dr.