http://www.madscistuff.com/blog Fri, 29 May 2009 11:27:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_53" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Can you see sounds and hear shapes?"][/caption] Synaesthesia is a rare condition that results in a blending of the senses. For example, some people can 'see' sounds, in the sense that sounds evoke certain colours in their mind. While this condition affects around 1% of the population, according ... http://www.madscistuff.com/blog/2009/05/29/can-you-see-sounds-and-hear-shapes/ Size does in fact matter if you are a male beaked whale - the size of two of your teeth that is! Actually, according to a recent study, it is also the shape of the two teeth that male beaked whale have on the outside of their jaws that is important. ... http://www.madscistuff.com/blog/2008/12/15/female-beaked-whales-find-teeth-sexy/ photo credit: LoreleiRanveig Fancy an extra brain to do some of the thinking for you? Imagine having your very own artificially intelligent assistant at hand to provide answers to those all important questions - from choosing the best stocks to invest in, to deciding what movie to watch tonight! All that ... http://www.madscistuff.com/blog/2008/11/21/ibm-c2s2-project-aims-to-build-an-artificial-brain-cognitive-computing-via-synaptronics-and-supercomputing/ If you think the Internet was invented in the 80s or 90s, you could not be more wrong! Did you know that a Belgian visionary called Paul Otlet had already come up with the concept of the Internet way back in 1934, and also imagined computers with a windowed working environment ... http://www.madscistuff.com/blog/2008/09/23/paul-otlet-thought-of-the-internet-in-1934/ I guess I forgot to mention in my first post that the spark behind this science blog was the ignorance and fearmongering that led many to believe that the Large Hadron Collider would or could destroy the word. Well, now that the LHC is sadly out of action for a couple ... http://www.madscistuff.com/blog/2008/09/22/the-end-of-the-world-safety-guide/ photo credit: rpongsaj Science was my first love. Ever since I was a small child, science had me completely captivated. Children are naturally curious, of course, but in my case, I had this insatiable desire to devour anything I could lay my hands on that was about science. I guess I ... http://www.madscistuff.com/blog/2008/09/19/why-you-just-have-to-love-science/