October 11, 2007 – 12:26 pm
From American Institute of Physics.
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was [...]
August 25, 2007 – 11:10 pm
From Gamasutra by John Harris.
The impulse to make video games easier can be traced to a fundamental change in perception over what a game should be. The older school of thought, which dates back and beyond the days of Space Invaders to the era of pinball, is that a game should measure the [...]
From washingtonpost.com.
Some have called Euler the “Mozart of Mathematics,” not only because of his genius but because of his prodigious output.
Euler contributed to essentially every field of mathematics — calculus, geometry, number theory and the vast realm of applied mathematics. “He was a universalist when that was still possible,” said Dunham, who has just edited [...]
From OregonLive.com.
Discovery - Two parasites are also embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber found in Burma.
An Oregon scientist and a Kentucky nurse have found the oldest known mushroom, entombed in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber from Burma.
A closer examination of the nine-hundredths-inch-long mushroom cap revealed that it had been infected by an ancient parasite, [...]
Original article at BBC News.
Archaeologists are uncovering a huge prehistoric “lost country” hidden below the North Sea.
This large plain disappeared below the water more than 8,000 years ago.
The Birmingham researchers have been using oil exploration technology to build a map of the once-inhabited area that now lies below the North Sea - stretching from the [...]
April 21, 2007 – 12:57 am
Original article at World’s first tree reconstructed.
“In forming the first forests, they must have really changed the Earth system as a whole, creating new types of micro-environments for smaller plants and insects, storing large amounts of carbon and binding the soil together,” said study leader Christopher Berry of Cardiff University in Wales.
The rise of land [...]