SAN ANTONIO – A star-spangled banner proudly displayed in Texas lacked a little something: seven stars. KSAT-TV reported that the banner with just 43 stars was hanging at the Northside Independent School District Aquatics Center when somebody noticed the error. Zolinski said the district “went on good faith that when you purchase the item that [...]
September 28, 2009
Brain researchers have recently discovered that when we perform mental activities such as adding numbers, comparing shapes, or identifying faces these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This “dark network,” according to Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes. Gilbert writes that “if you [...]
September 27, 2009
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on Papua New Guinea. A team of scientists from Britain, the US, Hawaii and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi [...]
September 17, 2009
According to a paradigm-shattering mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists, parallel universes seem to be the natural way things work, and seems there is nothing we can do about it—short of ignoring the whole concept, and science is not about to do that. The parallel universe theory was first proposed back in 1950 by US physicist, [...]
September 17, 2009
TOKYO - Imagine a light switch or a book that appears only when you need it — Japanese scientists are one step closer to making the stuff of sci-fi films into reality after creating a hologram that can also be felt. “Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you’d try [...]
September 13, 2009
Stendhal syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of [...]
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