Periodic Table
I found it a while ago. I could not locate the original source for it but here is a perfect example of nerdyness.
Logorama
Logorama, the Academy award winning animated short film, is one of the most creative and wittiest shorts I have ever seen. The short is about 15 minutes and entirely comprised of allegedly 2,500 logos and characters from the ads. I didn't even noticed 1,000 logos but watching it over again, I found a few more than the first time. Logorama has witty and sometime crude social commentary on modern logo infiltrated society. Sometimes logo behave like the characters of the products they represents , while sometime they behave like a bad stereotype or even what the logo could also represent. There are many subtle pop culture humor in the story. Among many one of my favorite scene (spoiler here ........ so stop reading if you don't want to know any scene from the short) is Ronald McDonald riding a motorbike made from Grease logo getting way from collapsing buildings made from Logo of companies such as Enron and finally falling over after colliding with Weight Watchers' logo. Classic indeed!
Search for video online , itunes or youtube.
BioPhotonics’ article “Exploding cells, one by one”
BioPhotonics has published an article "Exploding cells, one by one" by Anne L. Fischer on our work on direct single cell mass spectrometric analysis at atmospheric pressure.
http://photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=41135
3 Steps of Anthropogenic Climate Change Deniers
- “You're wrong and I can prove it.
- “You're right but it doesn't matter.”
- “It matters but it's too late to do anything about it.”
Summarized from the article “Convincing the climate-change skeptics” by John P. Holdren (2008)
Blog on cultural idiosyncrasies (Nepali)
As someone interested in cultural idiosyncrasies , I have been a big fan of books like Holy Cow and Ciao America. Finally I have found a blog that's just seemed tailor made for me (a Nepali in United States). “Musings from an American-Nepali Household” is a blog of an American woman, who understands Nepali cultures, and eloquently writes on those idiosyncrasies. Highly recommended!
Lost Treasures of Tibet (Mustang)
Nova’s “Lost Treasures of Tibet” discusses the art restoration project in Mustang, Nepal. The most interesting aspect is the philosophical debate on restoration that is shown at the end of the documentary.
PBS Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tibet/
Why people vote against their own interests?
BBC's report written by David Runciman examines why people vote against their own interests. According to him and other psychologists, such as Drew Weston , people vote based on emotions. So good emotional stories rather than facts convince voters. Original article is here.
Gene for empathy?
Researchers, Sarina Rodrigues and Laura Saslow have pinpointed a genetic explanation for why some people are better empathizers than others. According to their research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they found that genetic differences that lead to effects of hormone oxytocin were linked to their ability to empathize and trust people.
Summary Report
http://bit.ly/SociallyAwkward
Original Article
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/11/18/0909579106.abstract
Why pain sometimes lingers?
After injury the pain system becomes hypersensitized, i.e, responding with sense of pain to painless area to protect the healing tissue. However, sometime that pain overstay its usefulness.
See the summary report and the original report in Nature.