For years, archaeologists studying Viking remnants and artifacts in Britain had assumed that certain stone structures were bathhouses, or a kind of primitive sauna. But a husband-and-wife team has now thrown this thinking into question by suggesting that they weren’t bathhouses at all — that they were brewhouses where the Vikings made their beer. More »
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Archaeologists Mistake Viking Brewhouses For Bathhouses
Everyone reading this has heard of herbal medicine, but this is taking things a little too literally. Coconuts have been used as IV bags to rehydrate severely ill patients in remote areas. Learn why this works, and consider what it might tell us about the universe. More »
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Coconuts are nature’s IV bags
Okay, technically this isn’t a lava lamp, but you could have fooled me, given the mellow music and the drifting plumes of colored liquid. Researchers at Cambridge performed an experiment to find out more about fluid dynamics by coming up with two completely different ways that liquids can mix due to Rayleigh-Taylor instability, along with a video to watch if/when you’re stoned. More »
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Researchers create two different kinds of lava lamp… for science!
The contrasting colors orange and blue appear together so often in movie posters and videogame box art as to inspire countless blog posts , tumblrs , and even their own entry on TV Tropes . Intrigued by the entertainment industry’s orange/blue affinity, Edmund Helmer — a masters student studying statistics at Stanford — decided to visualize the use of different hues in film trailers. The end result is as telling as it is beautiful. More »
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Finally, proof that all movie trailers use the same color palette
If you’re ever beset by a strange and distinct feeling that you can’t quite name, you’re not alone. Just as the English language has pulled in loanwords like “schadenfreude” to name emotions with no English equivalent, there are a number of words other languages use to describe emotions still unnamed in English. Designer Pei-Ying Lin has charted a handful of these emotions , which are ready for your linguistic consideration. More »
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A Chart of Emotions that Have No Names in the English Language
This photograph represents the meeting of two great 20th-century artists. Famed violinist Jascha Heifetz was known for his incredible technical precision, which made him the perfect subject for a series of light paintings by the photographer Gjon Mili. Mili is probably best known for his 1949 series of photographs in which he encouraged Pablo Picasso to draw with light , creating images that could be captured by the camera, but not by the human eye. For his series with Heifetz, Mili attached a light to the violinist’s bow and had him play in Mili’s darkened studio, letting the camera record the bow’s movement through a variety of pieces and styles. In this one, you can practically see music spilling over Heifetz. More »
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This incredible photograph illustrates the movements of a violinist’s bow
We’ve been concerned about the security of Java for a while now. There was that vulnerability that affected like a billion computers , and Apple went so far as to remove Java plugins from all OSX browsers. Now even the Department of Homeland Security is in on the act with a special message: ” Yo, shut off that Java jazz “. More »
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Even The Department Of Homeland Security Wants You To Disable Your Java
Since 2003, Waxy.org ‘s Andy Baio has been documenting evidence of pirated/leaked Oscars screeners— in other words, copies of nominated films sent to Academy Awards voters which then make their way on to filesharing networks. The 2013 edition of his spreadsheet is out . He’ll post analysis tomorrow. “Most shocking find so far,” he tweets , “The Les Misérables screener hasn’t leaked online yet. Everyone knows pirates love musicals!”
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Tracking Oscar screener piracy, the 2013 edition
The composition being performed in this video is entitled “Nasciturus”, and it’s one of the many pieces of contemporary classical music created by Iamus — who just so happens to be a computer cluster housed in Spain’s University of Málaga. More »
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This classical music was created by a supercomputer in less than a second
Caltech astronomer John Johnson, co-author of a newly published study on the formation of planetary systems , calls the distribution of planets in our galaxy “mind-boggling.” His team’s are the latest in a string of predictions that pin the number of planets in the Milky Way at upwards of 100-billion . And these are conservative estimates. More »
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The number of planets in our galaxy alone is downright staggering