It looks like English and German made it to Europe starting in Anatolya, Turkey. Using a method used to track the spread of virusses strong evidence was found that the spread of language and genetic markers matched the spread from Turkey. Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family.
The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math – Derek Thompson – The Atlantic.
This is an incredible story of a commercial neuroscience application being used to analyse images at the rate of 20 per second in order to pre screen them by sorting the chaff from the wheat. The brain can regonise and analyse images at that rate and spikes in electrical activity 300 milliseconds after seeing the Read more about Using EEG for incredibly rapid human image processing[…]
These glasses can show where your veins run, and shade your hemoglobin levels to show the affective state a person is in. These Awesome Glasses Will Make Your Veins Glow So Nurses Won't Have to Keep Stabbing You.
It turns out that most people can’t tell the difference in sound quality above 160 kbps. So having a raw CD doesn’t make the sound ‘better’. Concluding the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment.
Here is a theory that says that some fraud perpetrators are not actually evil, but they don’t see that they are being evil, depending on the frame of mind they are put into. Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things : NPR.
It turns out that not only is it a massive privacy invasion, but has a 20% (!!) error rate. Besides that it’s useless, because no border guard system can read the fingerprints on the passport. Tweede Kamer wil af van vingerafdruk in paspoort – update | Webwereld.
Eating chocolate often makes you thin! Arch Intern Med — Association Between More Frequent Chocolate Consumption and Lower Body Mass Index, March 26, 2012, Golomb et al. 172 6: 519.
tissue in bald areas has three times the concentration of a fatty compound called Prostaglandin—PGD2 to its buddies. The research is published in Science Transnational Medicine. Fortunately, there are already 10 drugs available that can block the receptor that allows PGD2 to work—which means it shouldn’t be too long before a baldness treatment, in the Read more about Scientists Have Worked Out How to Stop You Going Bald[…]
This thing replaces the wheelchair entirely. It’s Turkish engineering and costs $15,000. It allows wheelchair users a whole new amount of freedom. What is Tek RMD from Tek RMC on Vimeo. Tek RMD – Robotic Mobilization Device |.
This site has around 2800 videos teaching you all kinds of subjects, allowing you to learn about almost everything for free as well as practice excercises. It’s quite impressive. Khan Academy.
Asthma rate and costs from traffic-related air pollution are much higher than once believed.
Want to think outside the box? Try actually thinking outside of a box. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking and found that the instructions Read more about To ‘think outside the box’, think outside the box[…]
They can use the maths to predict fairly well when and where a serial killer will strike again. Scientists Uncover The Mathematics Of Serial Killers – Forbes.
Being able to breathe is a big issue and unfortunately the pollution levels in our cities is so high that going out for a run or cycling is more harmful than the health benefits. So to counter this, there are a few filters available. Pollution China has a nice article on how to choose the Read more about Filtering out the pollution you breathe in cities[…]
This running technique has helped people become the fastest runners in the world and gets rid of injuries. It’s based on landing on the balls of your feet, not heels. The Once and Future Way to Run – NYTimes.com.
The genetics of happiness: Transporter of delight | The Economist.
The quest to build the perfect lie detector – Neuroscience – Salon.com.
An interesting article who’s main premise is that feminists thought being a man was better because they were all over the place in top jobs, but forgot that men were also all over the bottom of society (in jail, being junkies, etc). Now there’s a load of anti-man / men are worse than women literature Read more about Is There Anything Good About Men[…]
Het Hof geeft preciseringen over de aansprakelijkheid van ondernemingen die op internet een elektronische marktplaats beheren voor de door hun gebruikers gepleegde merkinbreuken De nationale rechter moet deze ondernemingen kunnen gelasten om niet alleen maatregelen te nemen om de inbreuken op de intellectuele-eigendomsrechten te doen eindigen, maar ook om nieuwe inbreuken van die aard te Read more about EU court determines that intermediary is responsible for authenticity of goods sold on site[…]
Open-Xchange | Blog.
Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say – Yahoo! News.
Here we aimed to demonstrate that swinging can modulate physiological parameters of human sleep. To this end, we chose to study sleep during an afternoon nap using polysomnography and EEG spectral analyses. We show that lying on a slowly rocking bed 0.25 Hz facilitates the transition from waking to sleep, and increases the duration of Read more about Napping in a hammock – faster and better[…]
Well… 70% of his upper thigh. Still impressive though. US soldier Isaias Hernandez ‘re-grows leg’ after pig bladder hormone injection | Mail Online.
Humans react in a seemingly irrational manner during emergency evacuations; sometimes, people even get trampled in the process. But what if architects and developers could predict how large crowds might move through their buildings in the event of an emergency–and then tweak the designs to ensure that everything runs smoothly?That’s the premise of MassMotion, a Read more about Mass Motion – 3d human crowd simulator[…]