I found this really cool video of a building in Switzerland that has a facade of little aluminum pieces which move as the wind blows. The design is used to teach people about air currents and turbulence patterns. Needless to say the final design is amazing and I could watch it all day!



Found the video on Geeks are Sexy.

Tags: technology, science, Interesting

Found this really cool time-lapse of the Boston Garden going from a Metallica concert to a Burins game to a Celtics game. Very cool to see!

Tags: technology, photos

I won’t get into the specifics of the Swine Flu, but someone made a very cool map of all of the cases in the world using Google Maps.


View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

Pretty cool and it will be interesting to watch as the disease progresses around the world.

Key:

• Pink markers are suspect
• Purple markers are confirmed
• Deaths lack a dot in marker
• Yellow markers are negative

Tags: science, technology

Maybe this is why my science isn’t working...

Los Angeles (CA) - A study from Ohio State University, based on a study of 219 students, suggests that the more you use Facebook, the less you study, and the worse your grades get. However, the report’s author does say the report only shows a possible connection between Facebook use and lower performance in your studies. Sure, we all know the truth: Facebook makes you dumb, among other things.

If you use Facebook, you are probably driven by the inane status updates that spew out of your friends across your pages. The joy of a muffin, the pictures of a party where everyone got drunk and dressed up like a slutty leprechaun, and the obligatory question that hopes to solicit a comment because you want to make sure someone in your network is reading your pathetic attempts at making the minutiae of your existence seem interesting. It is the equivalent of Vogon poetry, odes to green putty found in one’s arm putty. It makes you read stupid things, write stupid things, and think stupid thoughts. Unfortunately, the Ohio State University report did not go that far.

It says that 65% of students checked Facebook once a day, some more than that, and that they spent at least an hour a day on the site. Interestingly enough, 79% of the Facebook users felt that using the site had no impact on their work.  The real difference is grades?

“It is the equivalent of the difference between getting an A and a B.” Said Aryn Karpinski, the researcher at Ohio State who quizzed 219 students for his study.

Original story.

Tags: technology, science