February 2009
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January 2009
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Jack Churchill →
Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Fighting Jack Churchill”, was an English soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a bow, arrows and a claymore. He once said “any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed”.
The Army's Remote-Controlled Beetle →
A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California developed a tiny rig that receives control signals from a nearby computer. Electrical signals delivered via the electrodes command the insect to take off, turn left or right, or hover in midflight.
“According to counteractive self-control theory, we deflate desire for readily...”
– Association for Psychological Science
What Cooked the World's Economy? →
The bottom line in this scandal is that fantastically wealthy entities positioned themselves to make unfathomable fortunes by betting that average Americans—Joe Six-Packs and hockey moms—would fail.
I feel your pain: Neural mechanisms of empathy →
Brain-imaging studies have shown similar patterns of brain activity when subjects feel their own emotions or observe the same emotions in others. It has been suggested that a person who has never experienced a specific feeling would have a difficult time directly empathizing with a person through a “mirror matching” mechanism that requires previous experience and would instead have...
“Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began...”
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“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...”
– victor hugo
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“The secret of life is in art.”
– oscar wilde
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“Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum...”
– wikipedia
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“The holographic principle states that the entropy of ordinary mass … is...”
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Watch18 minutes with an agile mind
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”
Chemists edge closer to recreating early life →
Scientists have previously dabbled with similar synthetic replicatory systems, but these systems fell short of mimicking biological systems because they eventually stop replicating. This is because the bond between the catalyst and its product becomes too strong, making the system self-poisoning. By using cross-replication, Joyce and Lincoln seem to have overcome this problem and shown, for the...
“… these findings support the idea that thinking about an...”
– Association for Psychological Science
“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to...”
– banksy
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow...”
– picasso
