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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Archive for the ‘science’ Category
believing in god - the small difference
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
brought to you by the friendly atheist.
nembrotha cristata and friends !
Monday, February 4th, 2008this is the ‘nembrotha cristata’ or as i like to call it, a cabbage snail.
and here are a few other totally sweet snails :
to read more about these little dudes visit this page.
set your calculator on max- time for maths
Thursday, January 17th, 2008ok listen, this is brilliant.
mm…pi.. - a creative licence plate
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008( on this mazda 3.141592653589793238462643383 )
what you see depends on where you are in the world.
Friday, December 14th, 2007The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception.This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800’s. Take a look at the picture below. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world.After you have examined the picture, scroll down for a more detailed explanation.
so what did you see ?
What is above the woman’s head? When scientists showed a similar sketch to people from East Africa, nearly all the participants in the experiment said she was balancing a box or metal can on her head.
In a culture containing few angular visual cues, the family is seen sitting under a tree. Westerners, on the other hand, are accustomed to the corners and boxlike shapes of architecture. They are more likely to place the family indoors and to interpret the rectangle above the woman’s head as a window through which shrubbery can be seen.
after reading i looked again and yeah, i could see that thing at the back as a tree and not the corner of a room, and the window as a box on that womans head.
i like those kinds of things.. it clearly demonstrates that what we see is just our brain trying to make since out of things - based on what it knows already; makes you wonder what reality really looks like.
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
source - eyes-and-vision.com
tool’s golden section (the fibonacci numbers in music).
Sunday, November 4th, 2007i’ve never been too familiar with their music, but when I saw this video of TOOL I thought it was very interesting.
what they did was use the help of the fibonacci numbers to construct their lyrics and even some awesome golden-section based guitar riffs.
insightful lyrics and a cool theory on the whole numbers thing in the video.
for more reading here are some sources:
fibonacci numbers and the golden section
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