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18 Aug

"All possibilities are contained in the 10th Dimension"


Neat little animation illustrating a way to think about a 10 dimensional universe. According to several of the comments on the BoingBoing post the science behind it is mostly nonsense but I still think it’s a fun way to think about dimensions beyond the 4 that we’re used to.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension [The original link seems to be down so here is the BB post]

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18 Aug

Reading facial expressions not universal


A new study out of the University of Glasgow, UK suggests that “east Asian people struggle to recognise facial expressions that western Caucasians attribute to fear and disgust.” Apparently this is because Asians tend to take their cues soley from the eyes while caucasians look at all parts of the face, thereby giving them more information about the emotions being displayed. In discussing the study, NeuroLogica adds this interesting piece of information:
Here are the western emoticons for happy, sad, and surprise respectively:
: ) : ( : o
these are meant to be mentally rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
Here are the Asian emoticons for happy, sad, and surprise:
(^_^) (T_T) (*_*)
The obvious difference is that the western emoticons vary the mouth while the Asian emoticons vary the eyes.
I think I just found another caucasian vs. Asian interpretation difference! To me those look like “little frog,” “goth,” and “stoned.”

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