Month: October 2014
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Perception. Being inside. Being outside. A comet’s tail…
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has sent back some amazing photos as it approaches comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and prepares to land on its surface. But we have a question: Where’s the tail? Gerhard Schwehm, former manager of the Rosetta mission, tells Popular Science that the tail as we see it from Earth looks very […]
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Quality in the Internet. Garbage in the Internet. The oppression of the (stupid) majority_
Search the Internet for quality content. Find music “mixes” which are just a concatenation of songs. With thousands of page-views. Find good mixes which took hours into the making. With a mere dozen of page-views. Say hello to the oppression of majority. Say good bye to quality. Meet the “Internet”.
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The “meaning of life”. Doing something “important”…
In this stop-motion animation film about the real meaning of life, a 6-year-old girl narrates and asks, “How sad would it be to get to the end of your life and realize you never truly lived?” After citing scientific research finding the main regrets of elderly people to be the things they didn’t do rather […]
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“White Australia”…
Ever heard of the term “The term White Australia Policy”? (1) Read about it. Search about it. It is a great example of how a nation of immigrants became a nation of racism. For years Australia actually tagged anyone not from specific parts of the NORTH Europe as “black” people, thus leading to discrimination and […]
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Satellite galaxies. Dark matter. Simulating the unknown…
The mystery of the missing satellite galaxies has bedeviled astronomers for more than a decade. While dark matter has proven to be exceptionally good at explaining the formation of large galaxies and clusters, it routinely runs into trouble when attempting to describe tiny structures such as satellite galaxies. Dozens of tiny galaxies known as satellite […]
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