Sure your Uncle can make a quarter disappear in his palm and reappear in your ear. But did you know that he’s expertly exploiting the gaps of logic in your mind to pull of the illusion? How does your flawed visual perception and 3-D computational model of reality allow him to do it?
He describes himself on his Facebook profile as a ‘maker of groovy things’. Yes, indeed. Freeny transforms inanimate characters, such as designer vinyl figures, into anatomical cutaways, revealing the imagined body parts under their...
Photograph by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stockli This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based...
With less than two weeks to go before the Winter Olympics begin in Sochi, Russia, everything should be pretty much ready. Right?
Animals that look like they came from another planet.
Just how hard was the second problem cracked by Will in Good Will Hunting? Matt Damon! And who doesn’t love Homeomorphically Irreducible Trees?