This series of photos titled Géométrie de l’impossible (Impossible Geometry) from 21-year-old photographer Fanette Guilloud was created earlier this year in locations around Toulouse, Bordeaux and in the French Alps near Lyon. Guilloud employed a method of anamorphic projection similar to the work of Felice Varini to create the illusion … Read More → "The impossible geometry of Fanette Guilloud"

In a collaboration between Rostock University and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, an algorithm was developed to detect such changes in peoples’ everyday activities around the home. To test it, 46 subjects were each fitted with an ankle-mounted 3-axis accelerometer – 23 of those people had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, while the other 23 constituted a healthy control group.

When the algorithm was used to assess the accelerometer data, it had a 91 percent rate of … Read More → "Accelerometers used to diagnose Alzheimer’s"

In the photo series “Last House Standing,” photographer Ben Marcin documents a curious feature of struggling neighborhoods in East Coast cities: the solitary row house. Once part of long rows of connected houses, the solitary row house has become isolated and freestanding after neighboring houses were demolished. Most of houses featured in the series are in Marcin’s hometown of … Read More → "Last House Standing, photos of lone row houses in partially demolished neighborhoods"

In a post entitled From Classmates to Soulmates today, Facebook’s Data Science Team explains their methodology: They looked at schools that had at least 1,000 married alumni, and couples who attended the same school within four years of each other. Obviously, they only looked at subjects who reported marital status and graduation school—and their age limit was 25.

< … Read More → "Facebook data shows how many people graduate college with true love"

For years, coral reefs have faced threats from climate change and human encroachment, but many experts say the biggest problem is just how little we know about the reefs change from year to year. A panorama project called the Catlin Global Reef Record wants to fix that, taking inspiration from Google Maps to create a living portrait of the reefs that will allow … Read More → "Reef Record project offers panoramas of disappearing coral reefs"

Auto Kandy shows off how a Nissan Skyline with heat-sensitive paint changes from orange to black.
via Laughing Squid

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Scientists François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 for predicting the Higgs Boson, the particle – and its connected mechanism – which underlines the way all mass works in the universe. The pair took the award “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles,” … Read More → "Higgs Boson physicists win Nobel Physics Prize 2013"

Direct, an advertising agency in South Africa, made this ad for Douwe Egberts, a company that manufactures coffeemakers. Direct built a coffee vending machine and placed it in the O.R. Tambo International Airport outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. The machine had no obvious interface—no means of placing an order or inserting money.

It did, however, have a camera and facial recognition software in its computer. When the machine … Read More → "Vending machine gives you a cup of coffee when you yawn"

You might think that this image looks a little bodged together, and you’d be right to. After all, it’s literally a collage of photographs obtained by Voyager I—all the way back in 1979.

Collected when the spacecraft passed Jupiter’s moon Io for the first time, the images … Read More → "This is how NASA made composite images before photoshop existed"

Designer Elizabeth Bigger’s Lüme Collection sees simple black garments get a dose of 21st century tech by virtue of embedded LEDs that can be illuminated in patterns controlled from a smartphone.
via Gizmag

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