Copper Pipe + Magnets = Your Gravity Is Irrelevant
Although the neodymium magnets are not attracted to the copper pipe, they induce currents that catch the magnet as it “falls”.
The principle at work? Lenz’s Law. Use it at your next party that happens to have magnets and copper pipe around.
(by JamesRB1995)
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This image of sand by Yanping Wang won 14th Place in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
The competition recognizes excellence in photomicrography, honoring images that successfully showcase the delicate balance between difficult scientific technique and exquisite artistic quality.
(see more photos from the competition here on Feature Shoot)
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How walking through a doorway increases forgetting
The key finding is that memory performance was poorer after travelling through an open doorway, compared with covering the same distance within the same room. “Walking through doorways serves as an event boundary, thereby initiating the updating of one’s event model [i.e. the creation of a new episode in memory]” the researchers said.
photo via flickr:CC|kimba
Shit like this amazes me.
This somehow seems to make a lot of sense to me, if you really think about it. Walking through a threshold is a little macro-event that totally SCREWS with your event models.
Spoken like a true genius.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu5cb2IMkG1qc17oko1_500.jpg)
How walking through a doorway increases forgetting
The key finding is that memory performance was poorer after travelling through an open doorway, compared with covering the same distance within the same room. “Walking through doorways serves as an event boundary, thereby initiating the updating of one’s event model [i.e. the creation of a new episode in memory]” the researchers said.
photo via flickr:CC|kimba
Shit like this amazes me.
This somehow seems to make a lot of sense to me, if you really think about it. Walking through a threshold is a little macro-event that totally SCREWS with your event models.
Spoken like a true genius.
(via cameronchristopher)
Campaigners recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch in the Arctic sea.
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man becomes half the man he used to be - as part of his body melts into the sea. The enormous version of the Italian painter’s famous sketch was created by artist John Quigley who used copper pipes stretched out on the iceberg in the Arctic.
(via sabastooge)
