Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video
Just saw this and thought it was so cool I had to share! By ERIK OLSEN @ New York Times A 30-second video of a newborn baby shows the infant silently snoozing in its crib, his breathing barely perceptible. But when the video is run through an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, … Read more
Brain Links Common Emotions to Colors
By RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor of PsychCentral.com Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on May 17, 2013 Emerging research discovers an association between how music makes us feel and colors. That is, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies charge our emotional state. For instance, Mozart’s jaunty “Flute Concerto … Read more
Black and White Underwater Photography by Hengki Koentjoro
Underwater photography of scuba divers, coral, or wildlife can sometimes seem commonplace regardless of the remote destination or subject, but Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro (previously here and here) bucks the trend with his desaturated, dark, and often brooding images taken in and around Jakarta, Indonesia. While his landscape photography above ground is often dreamlike and mysterious, as soon as the … Read more
Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Scientists have known for some time that the human brain’s ability to stay calm and focused is limited and can be overwhelmed by the constant noise and hectic, jangling demands of city living, sometimes resulting in a condition informally known as brain fatigue. With brain fatigue, you are easily distracted, forgetful and mentally flighty … Read more
6:30 AM Series: Photos of the Exact Same Ocean View Taken at 6:30 AM Throughout 2003
For the yearlong photo project “6:30 AM Series,” photographer Robert Weingarten took a photo at 6:30 each morning of the exact same view of Santa Monica Bay, as seen from his home in Malibu. He did so for every day he was home during 2003. To keep the photos consistent, Weingarten strictly followed a set of rules: … Read more
The Art of Ofey: Richard Feynman’s Little-Known Sketches & Drawings
“I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world…this feeling about the glories of the universe.” Just like Sylvia Plath and Queen Victoria, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman —champion of scientific culture, graphic novel hero, crusader for integrity, holder of the key to science, adviser of future generations,bongo player — was a surprisingly gifted semi-secret artist. He started drawing at the … Read more
Color-Enhancing Glasses Let Doctors See Disease and Emotion
The ability to see the world in a broad spectrum of colors is more than just a wonderful gift—it’s a survival mechanism that humans evolved in order to identify both threats and food. But color vision also helps us read each other. Research by evolutionary neurobiologist Dr. Mark Changizi’s traces the development of color vision … Read more
Alan Friedman’s Astonishing HD Photographs of the Sun Shot from his Own Backyard
Alan Friedman is a fascinating guy. By day he’s a maker of greeting cards and a lover ofhats, but in his spare time he’s a self-proclaimed space cowboy who points a telescope skyward from his backyard in downtown Buffalo, directly into the light of the sun. Using special filters attached to his camera Friedman captures some of the … Read more
Natura Silentium: Photos by Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton
Natura Silentium: Photos by Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton A series of landscape and seascape photos obscured by fog. From the moment I pointed my lens through the obscurity of the fog in the winter seascape of Florida I was captured by the mysterious experiences of the natural world. It has held me ever since: the power of … Read more
