Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe 12 Steps To A Cosmic Orgasm – Follow The Astronauts And Experience The Overview Effect Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.— attributed to Sir Fred Hoyle, 1948.Tweet After Astronaut Edgar Mitchell had spent a whopping 9 hours and 17 minutes on the moon he was suddenly overcome with a sense of timelessness, bliss and absolute interconnectedness. For a moment suspended in infinity his privatized perspective dissolved into a cosmic whole, a zero point – Everything became aware it was Everything. This is what astronauts coined ‘The Overview Effect’. The overview effect is a altered state of consciousness in which every petty thought that normally distracts us from realizing that we are one with everything shrivels up. After his space walk outside the Apollo 9 Lunar Module astronaut Russell “Rusty” Schweikart said “When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing. #1. #2. This is the same (Sun moves across the earth)
How The Human Brain Creates Consciousness Scientific talks can get a little dry, so I try to mix it up. I take out my giant hairy orangutan puppet, do some ventriloquism and quickly become entangled in an argument. I’ll be explaining my theory about how the brain — a biological machine — generates consciousness. Kevin, the orangutan, starts heckling me. ‘Yeah, well, I don’t have a brain. But I’m still conscious. Environment | Fortuna Cool Eco-Reminder Stickers by Hu2 Hu2 is a design studio in London that creates imaginative, creative, inspiring, thought provoking and some time poetic stickers to remind you of scarcity of energy on planet earth. 7 Centuries old Stone Houses in Iran This is pretty impressive. San Francisco quake of 1906 Now In Color When you think of photos from the early 1900′s, you probably don’t picture them in color. Posted in Bizarre, Object, Pics, environment, extreme, featured Tagged 1906, color photography, Frederick Eugene Ives, In Color, photos, San Francisco quake The Bizarre zoo in Saudi Arabia Couple of month ago we had a post about Bizarre Zoo in Argentina, and here’s one in Saudi Arabia, but this one is private, and the owner is letting his child to play with one of the greatest Predators. . … Continue reading Posted in Animals, Bizarre, Pics, environment, featured, travel Tagged Animals, Bizarre zoo, Cheetah, Images, photos, Pics, Saudi Arabia, weird, Zoo Hunting Rabbits In Kazakhstan
Amplituhedron An amplituhedron is a geometric structure that enables simplified calculation of particle interactions in some quantum field theories. In planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory, an amplituhedron is defined as a mathematical space known as the positive Grassmannian. The connection between the amplituhedron and scattering amplitudes is at present a conjecture that has passed many non-trivial checks, including an understanding of how locality and unitarity arise as consequences of positivity. Research has been led by Nima Arkani-Hamed. Edward Witten described the work as “very unexpected" and said that "it is difficult to guess what will happen or what the lessons will turn out to be. Description[edit] Using twistor theory, BCFW recursion relations involved in the scattering process may be represented as a small number of twistor diagrams. Implications[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Notes[edit] Bibliography[edit] External links[edit]
Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind BERKELEY — Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios within reach. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and computational models, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people’s dynamic visual experiences – in this case, watching Hollywood movie trailers. As yet, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. The approximate reconstruction (right) of a movie clip (left) is achieved through brain imaging and computer simulation “This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery,” said Professor Jack Gallant, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist and coauthor of the study published online today (Sept. 22) in the journal Current Biology. “We need to know how the brain works in naturalistic conditions,” he said.
First Google Glass App for Sex Sees Everything (Yes, Everything) It was bound to happen: A developer claims that he built the first Google Glass app designed for sex. No, not porn — sex. Sex With Glass is designed to let partners share their point of view with each other to "experience sex like never before." The idea is that both parties will don Glass for the encounter, and the app will send a live video stream to the other person's display upon the command, "OK, Glass, it's time," letting them see what they see in real time. You stop the stream with the words, "OK, Glass, pull out," according to the app's website. The site claims the app will also be able to dim room lights and play mood music, presumably with home automation, as well as suggest new sexual positions with the words, "OK, Glass, give me ideas." The developer is also working on an accompanying iPhone app called Glance, which will let users switch the point of view to the iPhone's camera to see the "whole picture." Add to that concerns about privacy.
aqua profunda Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero Absolute zero is often thought to be the coldest temperature possible. But now researchers show they can achieve even lower temperatures for a strange realm of "negative temperatures." Oddly, another way to look at these negative temperatures is to consider them hotter than infinity, researchers added. This unusual advance could lead to new engines that could technically be more than 100 percent efficient, and shed light on mysteries such as dark energy, the mysterious substance that is apparently pulling our universe apart. An object's temperature is a measure of how much its atoms move — the colder an object is, the slower the atoms are. Bizarro negative temperatures To comprehend the negative temperatures scientists have now devised, one might think of temperature as existing on a scale that is actually a loop, not linear. With positive temperatures, atoms more likely occupy low-energy states than high-energy states, a pattern known as Boltzmann distribution in physics.
Still Smoking? Watch This There is a common misconception that the tar in cigarettes is equivalent to the tar used on roads. As a result of this, cigarette companies in the United States, when prompted to give tar/nicotine ratings for cigarettes, usually use “tar”, in quotation marks, to indicate that it is not the road surface component. Tar is occasionally referred to as an acronym for (Total Aerosol Residue), a backronym coined in the mid-1960s. The European Union currently limits the tar yield of cigarettes to 10 mg. Tar when in the lungs coats the cilia causing them to stop working and eventually die, causing such conditions as lung cancer as the toxic particles in tobacco smoke are no longer trapped by the cilia but enter the alveoli directly. This is really an eye opener of the damage we do do ourselves when smoking. Note: Best book you should read on helping you to quit smoking is: “Allen Carr’s easyway” Credit:
The Humble Toothbrush Gets an Internet Makeover The Internet of Things appears to be expanding out from the poles of industrial machinery and everyday household items. Among the latter category, we can now count smart toothbrushes. Existing smart brushes have tracked how long and how often users brush, displaying the data in a mobile app and, upon request, sharing it with the user’s dentist. But a newcomer to the field, Kolibree, tracks not just the quantity but the quality of brushing behavior. Many people learn at their semiannual visits to the dentist that they are missing a certain hard-to-reach nook. “Right now you get your feedback from your dentist maybe once or twice a year, and for the first time you can actually get that real-time feedback twice a day from this smart app,” Renee Blodgett, the company’s PR person, told the Wall Street Journal in a video interview. Admittedly, oral hygiene isn’t a thrilling topic for most, so $99 – $199 may be a steep price for a Bluetooth-connected toothbrush. Photos: Kolibree, Beam Brush
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