NASA Names Most Realistic and Unrealistic Sci-Fi Films of All Time Working through the year-end best/worst movie lists can be a feat of Olympic proportions, but there's one list which is so damn cool you'll definitely want to give it a whirl. NASA has compiled a list of the "least plausible science fiction movies ever made," and they ranked the disastrous (in more ways than one) '2012' as the most "absurd" sci-fi flick of all time. You don't have to be a science nerd to see why Roland Emmerich's end of the world-meets Mayan calendar-meets everything explodes movie is worthy of inclusion, but Donald Yeomans -- head of NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission -- explains: "The film makers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America, whose calendar ends on December 21, 2012." If you need more proof that these astro-badasses have impeccable taste, perhaps their "worst of" vote for box office bomb, 'The Core,' or the lava-crazy 'Volcano' will convince you. Bad Science 2.
peoplemovin - A visualization of migration flows Our World In Data - Visualising the Empirical Evidence on how the World is Changing Photos du journal - NASA's Earth Observatory Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects Visible To The Naked Eye There has been no shortage of column inches devoted to invisibility cloaks since engineers built the first one back in 2006. This was an impressive device but it had some important limitations, not least of which was that it worked only for a single frequency of microwaves. One of the biggest questions that physicists have puzzled over since then is whether it is possible to build similar devices that work over the range of frequencies visible to the human eye. Last year, a couple of groups announced a solution to this problem in the form of ‘carpet cloaks’ that lie over an object, hiding its presence over a range of optical frequencies. Again, these were impressive feats but with some limitations. Today, Baile Zhang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge at a couple of buddies have done significantly better. Carpet cloaks sit on a surface covering the object to be hidden. Their cloak has its limitations, of course. Another is that it works only with polarised light.
Sverige är unikt – här är 25 världskartor som visar hur Ibland pratar vi om Sverige som landet lagom, mellanmjölkens land, där allt är lite sådär mittemellan. Varken plus eller minus, vi är lite neutrala i allmänhet. Men tittar vi på Sverige i relation till resten av världen så kan man sluta sig till att inom vissa områden så är vi världens mest extrema land. Nedan finner du 25 stycken världskartor där Sverige är rankat etta eller ligger i toppen inom olika kategorier. 1. Via Foodbeast 2. Via GlobalAgeWatch 3. Via the Atlantic 4. Via the Atlantic Cities 5. Via SPI 6. Källa 7. Källa 8. Källa 9. 10. Via the Telegraph 11. Källa 12. Via Slate.com 13. Källa 14. Källa 15. Via Washington Post 16. Källa 17. Via World Bank 18. Källa 19. Källa 20. Källa 21. Källa 22. Källa 23. Källa 24. Via World Bank 25. Via World Bank Slutligen en bonus. Via World Values Survey Fotnot: Inspriration från 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World Tips: läs även ”Svenskarna med flest följare på Instagram”
This map shows every country’s major export Do you know what your country’s biggest export is? Now, thanks to this map put out by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, you can find out. The map does not include the export of services, but highlights some interesting insights and global trends. Part of their Transforming World Atlas, the report highlights “how many countries in the world are dependent on commodities as the primary source of foreign income.” In a volatile global commodities market, it is a reminder of the risk posed by falling oil prices to economies around the world. The map uses 2014 data from the CIA World Factbook. For a larger version of the map, click here. What is the world exporting? The map highlights a number of global patterns, notably the importance of oil exports to many economies. Other commodities, including precious metals and minerals, also play a significant role in the global economy. Conversely, European exports are focused on machinery and transportation. License and Republishing
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