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How we see

Nov 19, ’15 9:34 PM

About 70% of all sense receptors in the human body are located in the eyes, which explains why we shape our understanding so much through visual input.

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Testing short term memory and forgetting

Nov 10, ’15 1:54 PM

There is a number of studies that try to measure the capacities (or duration) of short term memory. There are the Brown-Peterson Technique, or the research by Sperling, or George Miller to name just a view of them.

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Magnetic field visualized

Dec 13, ’12 11:00 AM

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Fibonacci

Nov 11, ’12 11:01 AM

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Sun activity

Jul 17, ’11 10:42 PM

usagov:

Video description: This video shows our Sun over several weeks during a period of highly unusual solar activity.  It is comprised of images taken by a device called the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI), which is aboard one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) weather satellites.  NOAA monitors the Sun with the SXI in order to predict when solar flares may cause dangerous problems on Earth, such as communications failures and power outages.

Source: http://blog.usa.gov/)

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