What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
By Isaac Asimov
What is intelligence, anyway?
When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss […]
Ten years ago a presidential proclamation ushered in the Decade of the Brain. We have since realized enormous benefits from this decade of discovery. Scientists now have a better understanding and appreciation of the complexity of this rather unassuming three-pound mass of interwoven cells. Over the years, we have gleaned insights into how the […]
Some of you might remember the Walking with Dinosaurs specials that aired here in the states on the Discovery Channel. Well, the brains behind the series over at the BBC have produced a live stage show called, appropriately, Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience. Now, at first you might think that this would be […]
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1. St. Francis Dam, 1928
Self-taught engineer William Mulholland built this LA dam on a defective foundation and ignored the geology of the surrounding canyon. He also dismissed cracks that formed as soon as the reservoir behind it was filled. Five days later, it ruptured, killing 450 people and destroying entire towns (along with Mulholland’s […]
In the latest science discovery, the material called aerogel could be the latest miracle to come out of the science industry.
Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, is strong enough to not succumb a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C. Scientists are trying […]
NEW materials that can change the way light and other forms of radiation bend around an object may provide a way to make objects invisible, researchers said.
Two separate teams of researchers have come up with theories on ways to use experimental “metamaterials” to cloak an object and hide it from visible light, infrared light, microwaves […]
It brings a whole new meaning to learning anatomy-3D.
Here’s a future engineer. Innovative but … how do you break?
A picture is worth a thousand words. This one is probably worth a million. A pair of twin sisters - one black, the other white - born to a British couple who both had mixed-race parents. You may have seen this picture before, but is this a real and not a hoax?
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