Apparently in the Online Journalism Review they have an article, Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design, that includes a picture of a baseball batter and the eye movements of both male and female participants. Some people, kottke, are making a fuss about how men stare at other men’s crotches.
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Cool read about attending a seminar with Stephen Hawking which always makes me wonder if skeptics don’t have their own heroes that elevated to a level just above all other humanity. I will admit that I have a huge man-crush (full Snickers-eating, chest hair pulling kind of crush) on Neil deGrasse Tyson, hear him at Point [...]
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Marginal Revolution has some interesting comments from readers regarding the possibility of a political solution to global warming.
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Here’s a cool article about creating spacecraft that can use planetary magnetic forces to tool around the solar system. Although here’s a quote to keep in mind, “NIAC is famous for funding ideas that are high risk but high reward,” Peck told New Scientist.
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Yorp effect confirmed, Light puts asteroids into a spin, which begs the next question.
Maybe we should have NASA develop a laser that could push on an asteroid that’s on a collision course with Earth. You heard it here first.
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Now scientists have enlisted our robot friends, Robo-salamander’s evolution clues, to study how evolutionary processes developed. Have they no shame.
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I’ve always had very mixed feelings about these types of projects, Major space missions move ahead. They are so very expensive when compared to the miniscule amounts of funding that a number of social programs would love to just have a fraction of those funding dollars.
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