Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 18 March 2009
clipped from www.sciam.com
German scientists report in BMC Neuroscience that they measured the brain waves of eight pairs of guitarists using electroencephalography (EEG) while they played a modern jazz piece called “Fusion #1″ (by Alexander Buck). The researchers found that the guitarists’ brain waves were aligned most during three pivotal times: when they were [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 18 March 2009
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk
Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia
Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said: “We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible.”
“The balloon we chose was inflated with helium to just over two metres and weighed just [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 10 March 2009
More interesting information – like what to do with your own dream interpretations – at the source.
clipped from www.nytimes.com
a series of studies of more than 1,000 people by two psychologists, Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and Michael Norton of Harvard
when the researchers asked people to interpret dreams, some suspiciously convenient correlations turned [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 6 March 2009
Words fail me.
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk
The world’s only pink Bottlenose dolphin
actually
an albino
“I just happened to see a little pod of dolphins, and I noticed
one that was a little lighter.
“It was absolutely stunningly pink.
“I had never seen anything like it. It’s the same color throughout the
whole body [...]
