Tag: Science
A recent neuroscience study at the University of Minnesota has shown that rats are capable of feeling regret. This was previously thought to be a uniquely human emotion, and yet, it is also experienced by furry creatures who live in the subway tracks and feed on discarded pizza crusts. Speaking with A. David Redish, Ph.D. and A. David Redish, […]
Ready to feel insignificant and small? Check out “If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel,” a side-scrolling website that imagines our solar system if the moon were, yes, just one pixel in diameter. Josh Worth, the site’s creator, calls it a “tediously accurate scale model.” What do we learn? That our existence, drifting on a […]
Twitter is a treasure trove of information about the people who use it. With hundreds of millions of tweets posted every day, it’s possible to analyze everything from the emotional landscape of a particular geographic region to the linguistic characteristics of a city’s neighborhoods through the social network. Twitter’s API, however, only searches about one […]
Australia’s national science agency developed a tool that aims to map a region’s emotional landscape by pulling geotagged tweets and analyzing their content. If we’re tweeting the words “fuck,” “rain,” and “Memorial Day” frequently here in New York, for instance, it might indicate some state of general dissatisfaction about the coming weekend. New Scientist explains: Researchers […]
A new species of wasp discovered in Thailand in 2008 were finally given a name: Ampulex dementor, a tribute to J.K. Rowling’s Dementors, the most depressing monsters of all time. The wasps have been called “soul sucking,” as their preferred method of reproduction involves stinging a cockroach to place it in a “docile” state while […]
To promote EHSM2, a hacker conference in Hamburg, Germany, the organizers released video of the world’s smallest comic strip. The team etched the comic, by Claudia Puhlfürst, onto a strand of human hair using a focused ion beam. See more images on github, and Puhlfürst’s comic in its original, non-hairy form below. EHSM2 happens June 27-29. […]
Rock-paper-scissors: game of chance or game of skill? Conventional wisdom says the former, but a team of researchers from China’s Zhejiang University found it’s possible to apply strategy to the classic schoolyard game. After studying 300 games of rock-paper-scissors with 360 participants, the team discovered a few truisms about the way the game is ordinarily played. […]
A new review of studies from the American Academy of Neurology confirms what many medical cannabis patients already know: that weed can help alleviate the symptoms of multiple sclerosis like pain, stiffness, and overactive bladder. The study also looked at weed’s ability to treat other brain diseases, finding inconclusive evidence for whether pot could effectively treat […]
Check this band of drones playing “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” “Carrol of the Bells” and the national anthem. See their sharply choreographed whirling, pulling and landing on electric keyboards, bells of some sort and a one-string electric slide guitar contraption equipped with a bass drum, a snare drum and two crash symbols. There’s even a very climactic GONGGGGGG […]
A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience that’s been making the rounds lately purports that smoking weed, even casually, damages your brain in serious ways. Researchers at Northwestern University studied 40 people, half of whom smoked pot and half of whom didn’t, and the smokers brains exhibited abnormalities not present in the non-smokers’. In conclusion, lead […]
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