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Hyperreal Painting by Denis Peterson

2009-01-06T06:22:00.000-08:00

A style in art that attempts to produce highly realistic graphic representations

Journal of Vision

2008-12-11T10:16:00.000-08:00

The Journal of Vision is an on-line, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to all aspects of visual function in humans and other organisms.

Color Lovers

2008-09-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

Virgin Galactic: Let The Journey Begin

2008-08-12T16:55:00.000-07:00

Futuristic Technologies

futuristic technologies

Psychology Tests on : BBC-Science and Nature

2008-05-19T07:55:00.000-07:00

Branches of psychology in YAHOO DIRECTORY

Introduction to Psycology on wikibooks

"The creative mind plays with the object it loves”.
Carl Gustav Jung

Robots

2008-04-10T00:03:00.000-07:00

dipinto parlante 3d morphing. Di Volker Blanz

2008-04-07T09:09:00.000-07:00

Elephant Paints Self Portrait

2008-04-07T03:35:00.000-07:00

2008-03-05T07:23:00.001-08:00

THIS SITE WILL BE UPDATED ON APRIL 2008

Please,
Defend Human Rigths, support the Dalai Lama .

2008-02-26T14:28:00.000-08:00

NEWS MAP
A wide source of news in various languages and categories.

You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet

2008-02-26T12:50:00.000-08:00

Photo courtesy:
The Graduate Education and Research Services (GEaRS)

The idea of using the internet to help make better use of computing resources is not new, but according to Professor Torsten Eymann of the University of Bayreuth, Germany, we need a better way to match resources with the people who want to use them.
(Source: physorg.com )

tomdaysy

2008-02-25T09:42:00.000-08:00

Very inspiring site! Great work, well done! Raffinate taste on choosing music.A gift of realized concrete poetry. Do not forget to visit his Blog, there are wonderful artistical works.

"New look at a planet" News from NASA

2008-01-31T06:59:00.000-08:00

NASA Spacecraft Streams Back Surprises From Mercury

FROM: yahoo news:
Mercury surprised NASA

IL MILIONE

2008-01-09T06:12:00.000-08:00

Walking on frontier's lines.

NASA in your life

2007-12-28T15:45:00.000-08:00

See it if you like! I enjoyned this.

Dance and Dancer

2007-12-20T11:23:00.001-08:00

An archive of any kind of materials related with the Dance and the Dancers.
Not very active by now, it could be amazing, maybe next time. Xatstilo is the author of this new Blog.

TOTAL REWIND

2007-06-12T00:45:00.000-07:00

The Virtual Museum of Vintage VCRs

Take anywhere, read anywhere

2007-02-15T02:42:00.000-08:00

E Ink® Imaging Film is a simple ink sheet component that can be integrated into a device to create a high resolution display with all of the unique attributes of electronic ink: long battery life, a wide viewing angle and a paper-like reading experience. While current devices using E Ink® Imaging Film have rigid backplane electronics, the Imaging Film itself is plastic and can be flexed and rolled, combining the complete look and feel of a paper document. Once electronics manufacturers are able to mass produce flexible backplanes, E Ink® Imaging Film will bring the E Ink founders' vision of a flexible newspaper with the versatility of digital control and wireless update to life.

ROYAL MAGAZIN

2007-02-09T08:51:00.000-08:00

Royal Jewels - Jewellery and Treasure of Royals and Aristocracy

NEWS

2006-12-27T18:04:00.000-08:00

Study Reveals How Magic Works. By Charles Q. Choi

2006-11-27T12:50:00.000-08:00

Scientists are figuring out how magicians fool our brains in research that also helps uncover how our mind actually works

Who wants to be a cognitive neuroscientist millionaire . By Ogi Ogas

2006-11-27T12:00:00.000-08:00

A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.

PHOTO COURTESY:Valleycrest production

Hew Yon Long claims his book gives a guide to proper relationships.

2006-11-27T11:50:00.000-08:00

Keys to secret code

By MAJORIE CHIEW

MALAYSIAN civil engineer Hew Yon Long, 42, has a new theory to explain and predict human behaviour. In Correlativity, The Secret Code of Life, Hew’s fifth and latest book, he claims to provide the keys to unlock the secret code of life (that is, to predict human behaviour).

Renaissance masterpieces found behind bedroom door

2006-11-14T07:54:00.000-08:00

ANGELICO

Books

2006-11-13T15:48:00.000-08:00

GOOGLE,
With the cooperation of prestigious libraries, has been digitizing books to make them findable.

Web 3.0

2006-11-13T15:23:00.000-08:00

"We are going from a Web of connected documents to a Web of connected data."
Said Nova Spivack, the founder of a start-up firm whose technology detects relationships between nuggets of information by mining the World Wide Web.

NYTIMES.COM BY JOHN MARKOFF

Solar flare largest ever seen

2006-11-09T10:45:00.000-08:00

The most colossal x-ray flare ever detected has been caught in the act of zapping its solar system with planet-killing radiation.

The star is II Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus, about 135 light-years from Earth.

UK supercomputer sets faster pace

2006-11-09T10:24:00.000-08:00

More than 1,200 processors have been added to the system
The UK's fastest-proven supercomputer used by the academic community has doubled in size and performance.

Pacific Ocean gives birth to new volcanic island: eyewitnesses

2006-11-09T09:42:00.000-08:00

One mile in diameter and with four peaks and a central crater smoking with steam and once in a while an outburst high in the sky with lava and ashes. I think we're the first ones out here," a crew member who identified himself as Haken wrote on the yacht's web log.

Z machine melts diamond to puddle

2006-11-09T09:25:00.000-08:00

Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.

The object of the experiment was to better understand the characteristics of diamond under the extreme pressure it would face when used as a capsule for a BB- sized pellet intended to fuel a nuclear fusion reaction.

The experiment is another step in the drive to release enough energy from fused atoms to create unlimited electrical power for humanity. Control of this process has been sought for 50 years.

Ask a Philosopher

2006-11-09T09:15:00.000-08:00

School of Philosophy

academicblogs wiki

2006-11-09T09:05:00.000-08:00

Main portal page for the academic blogs wiki

Art and the Conscious Brain

2006-11-09T08:56:00.000-08:00

<<... There are two aspects to viewing art: nativistic perception--the synchronicity of eye and brain that transforms electromagnetic energy into neuro-chemical codes--which is "hard-wired" into the sensory-cognitive system; and directed perception, which incorporates personal history and knowledge--the entire set of our expectations and past experiences. Both forms of perception are part of the appreciation of art, and both are products of the evolution of the conscious brain over hundreds of thousands of years...>> . ( Robert L. Solso in The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain ).

When science dissects art

2006-11-09T08:50:00.000-08:00

The noted neuroscientist Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran of San Diego has attempted to answer this question, using the principles of cognitive neurosciences.

He believes that there is such universality. He further proposes ten universal `laws' of art, or basic features that evoke responses in the human brain.

These are (1) peak shift, (2) grouping, (3) contrast, (4) isolation, (5) perceptual problem solving, (6) symmetry, (7) abhorrence of coincidence/generic viewpoint, (8) repetition, rhythm and orderliness, (9) balance and (10) metaphor. These might be thought of as the ten features that form the basis of `neuroaesthetics.' And they may well have an evolutionary origin and basis.

Robotics

2006-11-09T08:35:00.000-08:00

Optical Camouflage

2006-10-28T10:00:00.000-07:00

Photo courtesy ©Tachi Laboratory, the University of Tokyo

What is Optical Camouflage?
Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage.

This idea is very simple. If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent.

Super-light body vests to beat bullets

2006-10-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

A SUPER lightweight fabric which could stop a bullet is being developed by scientists in Cheshire.

Experts at the Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington, believe that by weaving tiny particles - called nanoparticles - into materials they should be able to create strong but lightweight suits which could be worn by police instead of heavy body armour.

X-rays reveal Archimedes secrets

2006-10-18T10:32:00.000-07:00

Creating a stink in the name of science

2006-10-18T10:16:00.000-07:00

"Our intention is to make all smells reproducible," Professor Nakamoto said. "So, in this case we have combined two techniques: smell detection and smell generation."

At the moment, the prototype can only reproduce certain fragrances, including apples, bananas, oranges and lemons.

Exploratorium

2006-10-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

On this site you can find information ABOUT the collection, a selection of online EXHIBITS illustrating visual phenomena, a set of pages exploring novel and thought-provoking IDEAS about seeing, and many LINKS to other sites where you can find more information about the science and mystery of how we see the world.

ArsScientia

2006-10-07T09:39:00.000-07:00

ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY :A VIBRANT UNIVERSE IN VIVID COLOURS

2006-10-04T07:51:00.000-07:00

Virgin spaceships

2006-10-04T07:39:00.000-07:00

Sir Richard Branson has unveiled a mock-up of the rocket-powered vehicle that will carry clients into space through his Virgin Galactic business.

Is your betty ready?

2006-10-04T07:33:00.000-07:00

Introducing the first safe color specially formulated for the hair down there.

Rock clocks help identify and date ore deposits

2006-09-28T19:28:00.000-07:00

Reddish-brown crystals of a radioactive mineral called monazite can act as microscopic clocks that allow geologists to date earthquake faults, ore deposits and other rock formations altered by the action of high-temperature fluids....

FUTURE HUMANITY INSTITUTE

2006-09-28T19:07:00.000-07:00

The Future of Humanity Institute aims to become humanity's best effort at understanding and evaluating its own long-term prospects. The Institute looks at how anticipated technological developments could affect the human condition. There are currently three broad research areas: human enhancement, global catastrophic risks, and methodological issues that arise in the study of big picture issues.

Constellation Program

2006-09-28T19:04:00.000-07:00

Lockheed to Build Orion Crew Vehicle
Orion, America's spacecraft for a new generation of explorers

The new crew spacecraft will have more volume than the Apollo capsules, reducing development time, boosting stability, and permitting safe travel for up to six crewmembers.

Hubble's eye

2006-09-28T18:40:00.000-07:00

Capture the extraordinary. Explore the universe through Hubble's eye, and witness the most dangerous, spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos.

The world's only truly INTERNATIONAL architecture magazine

2006-09-22T17:34:00.000-07:00

The Architectural Review is the world's only truly international architecture magazine. Every month, it presents a wide-ranging vision of international design to architects and architectural students worldwide. It is a source of inspiration to thousands, providing subscribers with detailed and finely-illustrated reviews of architectural projects - from small to large, residential to commercial, all over the globe.

Solar-Powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

2006-09-22T17:30:00.000-07:00

The solar-powered autonomous underwater vehicle (SAUV) is equipped with sensors for long-term observation of chemical and biological properties of lakes, rivers and coastal oceans. Important applications include environmental monitoring and security and defense systems.

Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006

2006-09-22T17:19:00.000-07:00

Science and the National Science Foundation are pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The links on this page will take you to articles describing the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together, as well as an online slide presentation that showcases the competition's winners and honorable mentions. All material is freely available for all site visitors.

Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Hooke’s microscopic bestiary, the beaks of Darwin’s finches, Rosalind Franklin’s x-rays or the latest photographic marvels retrieved from the remotest galactic outback, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. To illustrate is, etymologically and actually, to enlighten.

You can do science without graphics. But it’s very difficult to communicate it in the absence of pictures. Indeed, some insights can only be made widely comprehensible as images. How many people would have heard of fractal geometry or the double helix or solar flares or synaptic morphology or the cosmic microwave background if they had been described solely in words?

Introduction to VRML 2.0

2006-09-22T17:16:00.000-07:00

VRML stands for virtual reality modeling language

VRML is:
A text file format
A simple language for describing 3-D shapes and interactive environments
A web standard

Colourful beginning for humanity

2006-09-15T06:06:00.000-07:00

Evidence is emerging from Africa that colours were being used in a symbolic way perhaps 200,000 years ago, a UK scientist working in the region claims.

Public 'needs to drive science'

2006-09-15T05:58:00.000-07:00

Views are wanted on emerging areas of science and technology
A new project funded by the UK government aims to give the public a chance to drive science policy.

'Oldest' New World writing found

2006-09-15T05:46:00.000-07:00

Ancient civilisations in Mexico developed a writing system as early as 900 BC, new evidence suggests.

The Hidden Pattern

2006-09-11T14:12:00.000-07:00

The Hidden Pattern
A Patternist Philosophy of Mind
Ben Goertzel
ben@goertzel.org

The Hidden Pattern presents a novel philosophy of mind, intended to form a coherent conceptual framework within which it is possible to understand the diverse aspects of mind and intelligence in a unified way. The central concept of the philosophy presented is the concept of “pattern”: minds and the world they live in and co-create are viewed as patterned systems of patterns, evolving over time, and various aspects of subjective experience and individual and social intelligence are analyzed in detail in this light.

Web Journals

2006-09-11T04:42:00.000-07:00

Advertisers circle realm of blogging
Web journals could become the next marketing frontier

Computers write news at Thomson

2006-09-11T04:20:00.000-07:00

First it was the typewriter, then the teleprinter.
Now a US news service has found a way to replace human beings in the newsroom and is instead using computers to write some of its stories.

Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since March and is so pleased with the results that it plans to expand the practice.

2006-07-31T04:17:00.000-07:00

Research investigates electricity in wound healing

2006-07-31T04:09:00.000-07:00

An international team of scientists has discovered two genes that enable cells to respond to electrical signals in the body to heal wounds. They also showed that by applying an electrical field to a wound they could change the movement of cells and speed up the healing process. "Our studies show that electricity in the body is far more important than previously thought and that it has significant potential in wound healing and possibly also regeneration," said Professor Min Zhao, of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, who headed the research team.

Radio memory

2006-07-30T03:41:00.000-07:00

One to remember
Online challenge seeks to put your memory through its paces

Guggenheim Study Suggests Arts Education Benefits Literacy Skills

2006-07-29T10:17:00.000-07:00

Guggenheim Study Suggests Arts Education Benefits Literacy Skills

In an era of widespread cuts in public-school art programs, the question has become increasingly relevant: does learning about paintings and sculpture help children become better students in other areas?

Skin onto metal

2006-07-25T01:27:00.000-07:00

Science brings us closer to the cyborg self of science fiction.
In real life a group of British scientists from the University College London's Biomedical Centre has reportedly overcome what's described as one of the great challenges of modern medicine and devised technology that allows skin to bind with metal.

Astronomers glimpse exploded star

2006-07-24T07:00:00.000-07:00

A star on the brink of exploding as a spectacular supernova
has been glimpsed by international astronomers.

Piloted aircraft powered by disposable batteries

2006-07-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

An airplane powered by just 160 AA batteries has been flown by Japanese scientists – the first time dry-cell batteries have powered a crewed flight.

Incredible pictures: the moment lightning shared the sky with a rainbow

2006-07-17T23:03:00.000-07:00

When a rainbow formed in the sky people stopped and stared at the natural wonder.

But then lightning sparked across the evening panorama as two of nature's most spectacular phenomenon created an unusual alliance.

Sex ID test

2006-07-17T02:08:00.000-07:00

Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men.

Get a brain sex profile and find out if you think like a man or a woman.
See if you can gaze into someone's eyes and know what they're thinking.
Find out why scientists are interested in the length of your fingers.
See how your results relate to theories about brain sex.