Playing With Radioactivity
Broadly speaking, radioactivity is not something one should mess with just as a pastime. Indeed, ionizing radiation has the potential of causing carcinogenic mutations in your cells DNA, as well as…
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The Earth IS Round: Prove It To Yourself
Flat earthers are a thing in 2020. Here is a simple do at home proof it is round given a large enough area of apparently flat land.
The Night Sky From Atacama
For the third time in 9 years I am visiting San Pedro de Atacama, a jewel in the middle of nowhere in northern Chile. The Atacama desert is a stretch of extremely dry land at high altitude, which…
Object-Based Processing: Numbers Confuse How We Perceive Spaces
Researchers recently studied the relationship between numerical information in our vision, and how it affects our perception of space - and discovered subtle asymmetries that color our view on the…