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Half a Century in the Making: Tree ‘Crop Circles’ Emerge in Japan – Spoon & Tamago
Two peculiar ‘crop circles’ have recently been spotted in Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture. Viewable only from above, they were formed by sugi (Japanese cedar) trees. Conspiracy theorists will be disappointed to learn that there is a very practical explanation for how … Continue reading
The Surprising Result of Crushing Non-Newtonian Fluids and Crayons in a Hydraulic Press
Warning: strong language. Over on the Hydraulic Press Channel, Finnish factory owners Lauri and Anni devised an awesome experiment to force a variety of soft objects like cheese, soap, and crayons through a plate drilled with holes with the help of … Continue reading
Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty
China’s housing bubble has left 50 million homes empty and put its government between a rock and a hard place. This includes a paid sponsored promotion which had no part in the writing, editing, or production of the rest of … Continue reading
How to play an ancient rock gong
The British Museum invited Dr Cornelia Kleinitz, an archaeologist specialising in rock art, and Liam Williamson, a modern rock drummer, to try and discover how a rock gong might have been played. This was the result. Rock gongs are a … Continue reading
How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean | Sebastien de Halleux
Our oceans are unexplored and undersampled — today, we still know more about other planets than our own. How can we get to a better understanding of this vast, important ecosystem? Explorer Sebastien de Halleux shares how a new fleet … Continue reading
CGI Animated Short Film HD “Quantum Jump ” by Hayk Sahakyants | CGMeetup
[from the description] Animated Quantum Jump Short Film by Hayk Sahakyants. Featured on http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/quantum-jump/ The unsuccessful attempt of meditation of Buddhist monk turns into unbelievable expectation … Director Hayk Sahakyants
My trip to Japan / Viaje a Japón (2018)
Based on a real conversation we had with Juan Molinet before leaving Japan. Mixed up memories about our visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Miyoshi, Naoshima and Kyoto. By Dante Zaballa Design: Juan Molinet, Dante Zaballa Music: Skillbard
Why is the universe flat?
Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem.
Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics
New ways of using your genetic data could bolster scientific racism and encourage discrimination. Want to predict aggression? Neuroticism? Risk aversion? Authoritarianism? Academic achievement? This is the latest promise from the burgeoning field of sociogenomics. There have been many “DNA … Continue reading
Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.
The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. by Karen Hao October 24, 2018 In 2014 researchers at the MIT Media Lab designed an experiment called Moral … Continue reading
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