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Another ISS video as it passes over stormy Africa with Milky way in background
This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken December 29, 2011 from 20:55:05 to 21:14:09 GMT, on a pass from over central Africa, near southeast Niger, to the South Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. The complete pass is over southern Africa to the ocean, focusing on the lightning flashes from local storms and the Milky Way rising over the horizon.
The Milky Way can be spotted as a hazy band of white light at the beginning of the video. The pass continues southeast toward the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar. The Lovejoy Comet can be seen very faintly near the Milky Way. The pass ends as the sun is rising over the dark ocean.
The invisible side of design
As designers, we tend to get distracted by aesthetics of our creations, and often do not pay enough attention to the other, invisible side of our work. This talk discusses the significance of purpose, substance and context in our design decisions. It argues about the value of storytelling, content strategy and thorough editorial work. It also provides practical examples of and insights into the invisible side of design.
Slides can be found at Speakerdeck.com.
What your eyes say about who you are
As you read these words, try paying attention to something you usually never notice: the movements of your eyes. While you scan these lines of text, or glance at the sidebar over there or look up from the screen at the room beyond, your eyes are making tiny movements, called saccades, and brief pauses, called fixations. Scientists are discovering that eye movement patterns — where we look, and for how long — reveals important information about how we read, how we learn and even what kind of people we are.
Researchers are able to identify these patterns thanks to the development of eye-tracking technology: video cameras that record every minuscule movement of the eyes. Such equipment, originally developed to study the changes in vision experienced by astronauts in zero-gravity conditions, allows scientists to capture and analyze that always-elusive entity, attention. The way we move our eyes, it turns out, is a reliable indicator of what seizes our interest and of what distracts us. Scientists are now using eye-tracking technology to explore how we learn from text and images, including those viewed onscreen.
Discovery of a new particle?
The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.
Finding the Higgs would be one of the biggest scientific advances of the last 60 years. It is crucial for allowing us to make sense of the Universe, but has never been observed by experiments.
Scientists say that two experiments at the LHC now see hints of the Higgs at the same mass, fuelling huge excitement. It has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009, and is exploring some of the fundamental questions in “big physics”.
This newly discovered particle is called Chi-b (3P) and will help scientists understand better the forces that hold matter together.
The Hobbit: Un unexpected journey
Finally, Peter Jackson has announced a release date for the Hobbit movie! 14th of December 2012, the movie will be in theaters.
This is my most awaited movie since the Lord of the Rings Triology in 2001-2003.
