Try this with your friends at work: Sit in your chair and extend your right leg Start making it do clockwise circles After you get the hang of it, trace the number six in the air with your right hand I bet your leg switched directions, right? (If not, try it again) You can thank Roger… Continue reading Uncontrollable Fun
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Trying to go Nowhere
I live in New York City, where you can’t go more than about 150 feet without hitting a road. I’m from Canada where you can go up to the North and there are no roads for at least a hundred kilometers (see my earlier post on the ice fields in Auyuittuq park). So what about… Continue reading Trying to go Nowhere
The View from Afar
Check out this video NASA has made of the moon orbiting the Earth. It’s taken from 31 million miles away and will hopefully help scientists identify planets in other solar systems that might be similar to Earth. Here’s a screen grab from the movie showing the moon over Africa:
What a Tease
A recent Wired article cites the following: The pitches in musical scales are likely derived from language. Turns out, aspects of spoken English and Mandarin correlate to the intervals between notes in a chromatic scale (the black and white piano keys in an octave). Unfortunately, there’s nothing more than this offered as proof. What a… Continue reading What a Tease
Emerging Complexity
One of the most fascinating scientific developments of the past 20 years has been the emergence of the field of complexity. With the advent of computers, scientists can now model massively complex systems – many of which tend to form from remarkably simple interactions. A case in point was revealed in a New York Times… Continue reading Emerging Complexity