Jeder, der schon mal als Touri in einer Großstadt den anderen Menschen im Weg gestanden hat kennt das Phänomen sicherlich nur zu gut, in Berlin kenne ich es auch aus der anderen Perspektive. Nun endlich auch wissenschaftlich belegt!
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Interessante Aufnahmen vom Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, wo das bewegte Echtzeit-MRT-Aufnahmen machen.
Dieser Echtzeit-MRT-Film zeigt live die Bewegungen im Mund- und Rachenraum beim Sprechen: Dabei wird die räumlich-zeitliche Koordination der Lippen, der Zunge, des Gaumensegels und des Kehlkopf sichtbar, die nötig ist, um Vokale, Konsonanten und Koartikulationen zu bilden.
85% of people breathe out of one nostril at a time without realizing it. Your nostrils trade breathing duties every few hours, and whichever one you’re using affects your body’s glucose and oxygen levels and the activity of your brain hemisphere. It’s the reason why one side of your nose gets stuffed up at a time when you have a cold. Source Source 2
85% of people breathe out of one nostril at a time without realizing it. Your nostrils trade breathing duties every few hours, and whichever one you’re using affects your body’s glucose and oxygen levels and the activity of your brain hemisphere. It’s the reason why one side of your nose gets stuffed up at a time when you have a cold. Source Source 2
Your brain won’t let you see every dot in this illusion. People can’t see all 12 dots at once because it’s hard for human eyes to process peripheral information, so the brain guesses to fill in the gaps. In this case, it settles on intersecting gray lines. Source
Imagine if there was a machine that would take care of your garden 24/7 and do everything from planting seeds to killing weeds. Well, actually, there already is one. FarmBot is an open-source automated precision farming machine that does all the work in your backyard and let’s you enjoy the harvest without getting your hands dirty. The best part? It will become better and better because everyone can be a part of it.
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Imagine if there was a machine that would take care of your garden 24/7 and do everything from planting seeds to killing weeds. Well, actually, there already is one. FarmBot is an open-source automated precision farming machine that does all the work in your backyard and let’s you enjoy the harvest without getting your hands dirty. The best part? It will become better and better because everyone can be a part of it.
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Belfast-born, Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Jeffers combines classical landscape and seascape paintings with technical measurements in a beautiful series. More images from Measuring Land and Sea below. Also, check out video of Jeffers discussing his wonderful Dipped Painting project over at Booooooom TV if you haven’t already!
SOFIA, the airborne telescope that backed up New Horizons in studying Pluto, will go on flights to observe our universe until the end of 2020. NASA and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt or DLR) have extended...
This liquid is boiling and freezing simultaneously because it’s reaching its ‘triple point,’ which is the temperature and pressure at which three phases of a substance (gas, liquid, and solid) co-exist in equilibrium. Source
Turtles can breathe through their butts and pee through their mouths. Source Source 2
