Slow Wave: Dream Comics Posted: 8 months ago by tvirus
Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw.
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In the Dreamscape of Nightmares, Clues to Why We Dream Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
A big reason bad dreams offer insight into the architecture of dreams generally is that, as a host of studies have shown, most of our dreams are bad. Whether research subjects keep dream journals at home or sleep in research labs and are periodically awoken out of REM sleep, the results are the same: about three-quarters of the emotions described are negative.
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Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow motion for him during battles. Indeed, in the real world, people in danger often feel as if time slowed down for them. This warping of time apparently does not result from the brain speeding up from adrenaline when in danger. Instead, this feeling seems to be an illusion, scientists now find.
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Comic strip warning about the dangers of too much "World of Warcraft" Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
Hilarious modification of an old comic strip warning about too much WoW! The more I see stuff like this, the more tempted I am to check the game out (so I can mock it myself).
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Animals across Europe falling asleep due to heat wave Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
With some parts of Europe currently in the middle of a heat wave, it seems it's not only people who suffer from the soaring temperatures.
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Two unusual older stars giving birth to second wave of planets Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Hundreds of millions — or even billions — of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place. "This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves formed."
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First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space.
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Turn your photos into a comic strip Posted: 2 years ago by TheStep
Comeeko.com lets you upload photos and add comic-strip-style captions and borders. The results can look quite funky.
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Slow reading in dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency — slow and choppy reading — may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers. Their study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers’ brains that makes it difficult to integrate the information needed for rapid, “automatic” reading.
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Eating less meat may slow climate change Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby decreasing the amount of methane flatulence from the animals.
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Hinode: source of the slow solar wind and superhot flares (video) Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A plethora of latest results from the Hinode solar observatory contains a wealth of new discoveries. This includes the discovery of a source of the slow solar wind and the observation of a superhot micro flare.
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Dream Shadows Posted: 1 year ago by maxriter
The story in pictures tell about our dreams, who we want to be, what we think and dream of. One word - wonderful!
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The Stalled Hunt for a Gravity Wave Posted: 3 months ago by bernardblack
The LHC is getting all the coverage, but another major physics experiment the Virgo gravity-wave interferometer, an €80 million (US$114 million) has been incapacitated by a vacuum failure for most of the summer, and is expected to stay out of commission for a month or two to come. It is searching for that elusive Gravity Wave
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Saturn Does the Wave in Upper Atmosphere Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.
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Please Don't Destroy My American Dream Posted: 12 months ago by leopoldogolba
The sub-prime mortgage crisis threatens to kill the dream of home ownership for millions of Americans. Here is one of their stories. [satire]
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Don't you hate it when you wake up in the morning and realize your dreams sucked? Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
Well, try Dream Boost. A dream enhancer that promotes healthy dreaming and dream recall. Dreams experienced from a dream enhancer may become more colorful, vivid, and may even produce lucid dreams.
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Sine Wave Speech Posted: 10 months ago by mahler87
This is a trippy perceptual phenomenon which will mess with your head a little bit. Sine wave speech is artificially degraded speech that sounds like just beeps and whistles until you have been primed to hear it as speech. Try it, you will be amazed!
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A day is set aside for comic book fans Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An Arizona man is celebrating a special day to promote comic books as engaging educational tools. Free Comic Book Day is set to take place the first Saturday in May.
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Slow Motion Bullets Posted: 2 years ago by shredtone
Lots of different slow motions clips of bullets firing and hitting their targets.
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What's the hurry? Try slow travel Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Slow down, you move too fast. Try to make that vacation last.
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Amazing Time Lapse of a Gravity Wave Posted: 2 years ago by shredtone
This is a time lapse of a gravity wave taken by the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam on 6 May 2007. Gravity waves form when buoyancy pushes air up, and gravity pulls it back down. Very cool stuff!
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