Make Yourself Hallucinate (Safely)
How you can safely trick your mind into triggering a visual hallucination, using only math and neuroscience!
(https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/3b5d40ae8919)
Regular Heptadecagon Inscribed in a Circle.
(Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1796)
A new generation of online games don't just provide entertainment – they help scientists solve puzzles involving genes, conservation and the universe.
(The Observer, 25 January 2014)
Philosophy by Kriki.
http://kriki.cartooncommerz.de/
Laputa defying gravity (1727).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm
Einstein's field equations in the movies:
Les Triplettes de Belleville
by Sylvain Chomet, 2003
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244)
Steven Appleby, 1993
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00205X212/
Children see a pod of dolphins, adults see two lovers
Die Liebesbotschaft der Delphine /
Message d'amour des dauphins
by Sandro Del-Prete, 1987
http://www.sandrodelprete.com
New Supernova SN 2014J in Messier 82!
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps-faculty/maps-news-publication/maps1405)
by Sabine Hossenfelder (Jan. 2, 2014)
http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2014/01/10-misconceptions-about-free-will.html
by Sabine Hossenfelder (Feb. 3, 2012)
"In my paper I just pointed out that there exist time evolutions that are neither deterministic nor probabilistic, certainly not in practice but also not in principle. Functions that do that for you are just functions physicists don't normally deal with. The functions that we normally use are solutions to differential equations. They can be forward-evolved or they can't and that is exactly the problem. Yet, there are lots of functions which don't fall in this category. These are functions can can be forward evolved, yet you have no way to ever find out how. They are deterministic, yet you cannot determine them.
Take for example a function that spits out one digit of the number π every second, but you don't know when it started or when it will end. You can record as much output from that function as you want, you'll never be able to tell what number you get in the next second: π is a transcendental number; every string that you record, no matter how long, will keep reappearing. If you don't know that the number is π you won't even be able to find out what number the algorithm is producing. Read More »
Broke his foot before it was mainstream: #HipsterArchimedes @madonna
Die angekündigte Senkung des Rundfunkbeitrags um voraussichtlich 73 Cent hat Verfassungs- und Völkerrechtler Ingo von Münch als „Placebo“ bezeichnet. „In Wahrheit geht es nicht primär um eine Entlastung der privaten Haushalte, sondern um Ablenkung von der Hauptsache“, schrieb der frühere Hamburger Wissenschafts- und Kultursenator in einem Beitrag für das Nachrichtenmagazin FOCUS. „Das „Grundübel“ des seit Januar 2013 erhobenen Beitrags bleibe bestehen: Er werde pro Wohnung erhoben, egal ob darin tatsächlich Fernseher, Radios oder Computer genutzt würden. „Nicht wenige Menschen konsumieren hierzulande aus wohlerwogenen Gründen nur Hörfunksendungen“, so von Münch. „Sie müssen aber trotzdem den vollen Rundfunkbeitrag und damit auch für das öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehen und dessen Online-Präsenz zahlen.“ Zumindest für diese Minderheit sei der Beitrag eine „Zwangsabgabe“. Von Münch fragte: „Wo bleibt in einem Land, das sich sonst in auffallendem Maße um Minderheiten sorgt, insoweit der Gedanke eines Minderheitenschutzes?“ Read More »
