Awesome Unusual-Looking Benches
The benches you are about to see are so creative, that even a short break will seem like a real adventure. They prove that even most trivial things might become funny and awesome.
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The Sun’s magnetic field is about to flip
Something big is happening on the sun. The sun’s global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived.
The history and anatomy of a Meme
The history of the meme links back further than you may think. Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The Selfish Gene note ‘memes’ are short for the Greek word ‘mimeme’ meaning ‘imitated thing.’. This infographic created by online backup storage company, Mozy, shows the us how to create a viral meme, and the monetary payoff of these internet characters.
Smartphone app to cure blindness
Peek, a new app developed by researchers at the School of Tropical Medicine in London, could help tens of millions of people suffering blindness and sight problems in the developing world, by allowing opticians to visit remote corners of the world and perform eye tests using only a smartphone, then sending the results back to a central hospital for analysis.
Blue sun bursting
Our Sun is not a giant blueberry. Our Sun can be made to appear similar to the diminutive fruit, however, by imaging it in a specific color of extreme violet light called CaK that is emitted by the very slight abundance of ionized Calcium in the Sun’s atmosphere, and then false color-inverting the image. This solar depiction is actually scientifically illuminating as a level of the Sun’s chromosphere appears quite prominent, showing a crackly textured surface, cool sunspots appearing distinctly bright, and surrounding hot active regions appearing distinctly dark.