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Architecture, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

The Obscura Society

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Local geography CAN be interesting.

Atlas Obscura had a great success earlier this year with Obscura Day, a project to get people all over involved in their local geography and interesting places. It was so successful that they are now forming The Obscura Society, a club in which people not only explore places, but share their experiences with others.

Born of the success of Obscura Day, this real-world exploration arm of Atlas Obscura will be seeking out secret histories, unusual access, and opportunities to explore strange and overlooked places hidden all around us, all year round – and we could not be more excited about it…

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Brain, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Learnin’ Matrix-Style!

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Learning with a zing-zang-zoom!

Remember the Matrix where all you need to do to learn kung fu is to get it uploaded to your brain? Well, that may soon be coming to real life:

New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It’s the kind of thing seen in Hollywood’s “Matrix” franchise…

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Analysis, Education, Latest News, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints, Plant Life

New discovery on how sugars are moved throughout a plant

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An image of the localization of the identified protein in the molecular pump in the vascalature of a plant leaf.

Food prices are soaring at the same time as Earth’s population is nearing 9 billion. As a result the need for increased crop yields is extremely important. New research led by Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer into the system by which sugars are moved throughout a plant — from the leaves to the harvested portions and elsewhere — could be crucial for addressing this problem…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Historical Perspectives, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, New Inventions

Maximum Micro Tech: three new technologies explained

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Nanowick Cooling explained.

Some of the biggest breakthroughs in future tech revolve around some of the smallest materials on Earth. Even calling these technologies “micro” is magnitudes of measure larger than their actual tiny sizes. From the nano-scaled heat transfer of Nanowick Cooling down to the single atomic-level of Graphene and Quantum Computing, these white papers will help you wrap your head around the maximum potential of these miniscule technologies…

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Analysis, Humor, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

The Internet’s best 404 Error pages

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Getting a funny 411 when you get  404.

The internet isn’t just a bunch of cables, wires, modems, computers, silicon, protocols, h-tee-tee-pees and h-tee-em-els. There are people behind it! People with personality. People who like to laugh. People who put up hilarious 404 error pages so whenever something goes wrong on the Internet, people will remember that they exist!

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Breakthrough Thinking, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, New Discoveries, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

First Molybdenite microchip!

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Molybdenite could be a game changer for microchips.

Silicon may need to move over soon as molybdenite has proven its possibilities for being a more versatile material with which to make computer chips. The chips have transistors that are smaller (transistors can be made that are just three atoms thick) and more energy efficient, able to be turned on and off more quickly…

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Analysis, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, New Discoveries

The difference between Spider-Man and Santa Claus Is very small

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Santa is/is not Spidey a shown here.

Stephen Wildish’s Venn diagram illustrates that if Santa wanted to become a major league superhero — or, more frighteningly, a supervillain — he would be immensely powerful. He already has something of a Fortress of Solitude set up.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Entertainment, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

V-Squared Labs Brings Visual Alchemy To A Performance

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Concerts simply aren’t the same as they used to be.

A visual revolution has been brewing in the image rendering and video projection realms transforming musical events into an entirely new multi-level experience. Objects resembling giant, white Tetris blocks on a stage suddenly are transformed into living video art that throbbed and pulsed along with the music. Audience members visit outer space and see spaceships fly by and explode in amazing high definition imagery. Cyber machines chug and churn before morphing into green blocks of electric contemplation and much, much more…

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Discover the Hidden Patterns of Tomorrow with Futurist Thomas Frey
Unlock Your Potential, Ignite Your Success.

By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.

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