Take a look at the animation on the jump page. Do you see the dancer spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? If clockwise, you’re right-brained. If counterclockwise, left. There’s a poll attached, so please register your predeliction.
Orgtheory highlights the result of a poll done by a scientific group, including the questions “Now, does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?,” and “How long does it take for the Earth to go around the Sun: one day, one month, or one year?” The surprising results: [...]
Thanks to Cosmic Variance for pointing this out, one of the most airtight arguments yet for creationism over evolution: “One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is [...]
I recall in high school physics, Mr. Heckathorn used to hammer us with the concept of significant digits. What it boils down to is, say, you have two numbers: 1.14 and 2.37. You get 2.7018. But just try and put that down in your lab homework. The thing is, you can’t take inputs accurate to [...]
Where the heck is Eris, anyway? I was all sentimental about it, but I guess in this context, Pluto probably doesn’t deserve to be called a real planet after all. 
This two-hour show airs Sunday, March 18 from 8 – 10 p.m. US eastern time. Last spring, The Broadway Bach Ensemble was approached by the producers to appear in a few scenes. We gathered the troops together one night in May along with a film crew and an actor, a nice gentleman who was portraying, of all things, a trumpet player.
The Cassini spacecraft sent back photos today from its polar orbit of Saturn, showing literally never-before-seen images of its rings from above. There’s a gallery of photos available on NASA’s Cassini site, but this one really grabbed me because of it’s beautiful, almost painterly, subtle coloration. Just barely visible the fringes of the inner rings at about 4:00 and 6:00.
Here’s a photo of the sun, taken by the Super-Kamiokande observatory in Japan. A very unusual photo, not by natural light, infrared or ultraviolet. By neutrino emissions. What’s more, it was taken at night. How do you take a photo of the sun at night? Through the Earth…
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