jtotheizzoe:

Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station

Not bad pictures for someone traveling 7,706 meters per second, eh?

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intelfreepress:

When I first met Stephen, he still had some use in his thumbs. In fact, he’d still attempt to drive his own wheelchair. He pinned me against the wall once [laughs]. He had basically a clicker, a binary switch that he held in his hand. He’d press it with his thumb to highlight the words or commands on the computer screen. He was typing at about one word per minute when I first met him. He was actually pretty snappy with it.

Over time the nerve that allowed him to move his thumbs degraded, and he had to find another way to communicate. They originally talked about using one of his pectoral muscles and putting a sensor there. He wasn’t too thrilled with that idea.

What he’s got now is an infrared sensor hanging off of his glasses. It basically detects the changes in light as he twitches his cheek. They call it the “cheek switch.”

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intelfreepress:

Photographs of science tattoos from the book “Science Ink,” by Carl Zimmer featured in the New York Times.

“I became a curator of tattoos, a scholar of science ink,” said Zimmer. 

Here’s one from a collection of tattoos on Intel engineers and hipsters.

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laughingsquid:

NASA Researchers Release Highest Resolution Map Ever of the Moon

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“Kissing future prosperity goodbye.” As the federal budget beadline nears, MIT President Susan Hockfield told the Commonwealth Club in Silicon Valley that she’s skeptical that Congress will avoid cutting funding for research by 10% for the next decade.

“It’s where big, new ideas get transformed into products that create new markets and put people to work,” she said.

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Risinger’s subjects were the millions upon millions of stars and solar systems and galaxies filling the night sky. The single astounding panoramic image he has created — stitched together into a seamless 5,000-megapixel shot — is riveting astronomers and sky watchers worldwide.

And it’s online. With the click of a mouse, you can zoom through the eons to peer into pale yellow gas clouds, past purple nebulae, across vast belts of stars and then into the dim light of the distant universe fading gradually to infinity.

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stoweboyd:

Sean Carroll,  Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language, yet it remains a mystery. We’ve just completed an amazingly intense and rewarding multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time, and my brain is swimming with ideas and new questions. Rather than trying a summary (the talks will be online soon), here’s my stab at a top ten list partly inspired by our discussions: the things everyone should know about time.

(via gravity7)

Salvador Dali bent the persistence of time.

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emergentfutures:

 The Chemistry of Information Addiction

A new experiment reveals why we always want to know the answer

Full Story: Scientific American

Is it a need to know or want to know?

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