Science
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It’s All In Your Head
Pareidolia’s an interesting phenomenon. It’s basically an effect wherein your brain detects a pattern where there isn’t one. For example,…
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Mad Quickies 8.12
• Would you get a hashtag tattoo? Consider the Social Tattoo Project. • What it’s like to be a girl…
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Mad Quickies 8.10
• This is how you teach an insectoid robot to play Beethoven. (via Jennifer Ouellette) • The Chemistry of Oil…
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Sounds Like … But Isn’t
Quarks? Big bang? Spaghettification? Seriously, who makes up this stuff? For example… Red Sprites Sounds Like… Little woodland creatures who…
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A Wheelie Good Cause
In my introductory post on Mad Art Lab, I briefly mentioned that I was training for a roller-skating marathon (that’s…
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Mad Quickies 7.22
• I love this math garden so much I am willing to ignore the comment about intuition being the 6th…
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Look Around You
We have previously discussed the use and misuse of the documentary and the museum aesthetic paradigm. Of course, there are…
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