I’m reminded over and over again how maddeningly unproductive arguments become when the participants throw around unsubstantiated claims and figures. It seems like this is happening more and more in a fast-paced society where no one has the time to dig into the details of an issue. I’m as guilty as the next [...]
Looking for an invisibility cloak or a car that blends right into its surroundings? Researchers at Boston College have managed to use what they call ‘metamaterials’ to instruct a beam of light to follow particular pathways.
The researchers accomplished their feat by developing a much more precise set of instructions, which create a grid-like roadmap [...]
I decided to experiment with building cantennas for a physics project this semester. Here’s a tutorial explaining the process: How to Make a Cantenna
In an effort to create a model of evolutionary processes researchers at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland have turned to robots. The robots were placed in an “environment” with a “food” and a “poison” station. Robots were given two minutes to find the food resource while successfully avoiding the poison. [...]
Frankly, I’ve never been tempted myself to smoke, but I could see how it could happen. It’s something people do, and really, what’s the harm in just trying it? Well, finally here’s a concrete answer…
Perth Fun: The Right Brain vs Left Brain test
A friend of mine pointed out the above article about testing left-brain/right-brain dominance. The idea is that judgments can be made about hemispherical dominance according to which way someone perceives the spinning of the dancer. Those who see it as a clockwise rotation are right-brain [...]
