• NCBI ROFL: Why you overspend on Ebay. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-08-31 00:00:51
    : . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : The fluid mechanics of coffee . rings NCBI ROFL : Why you overspend on . Ebay The value of victory : social origins of the winner’s curse in common value . auctions Auctions , normally considered as devices facilitating trade , also provide a way to probe mechanisms governing one’s valuation of some good or action . One of the most intriguing phenomena in auction behavior is the winner’s curse the strong tendency of participants to bid more than rational agent theory prescribes , often at a significant . loss The prevailing explanation suggests that humans have

  • NCBI ROFL: The fluid mechanics of coffee rings. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-08-30 00:00:46
    : . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : Curvy vs . straight which glass ups your drinking rate NCBI ROFL : Why you overspend on . Ebay NCBI ROFL : The fluid mechanics of coffee . rings Formation of coffee stains on porous . surfaces During the drying of drops of nanoparticle suspensions , segregation can occur by internal fluid flows toward the contact line , if the contact line is pinned . This leads to a characteristic ring deposit or coffee stain . On solid substrates coffee staining can be eliminated through the use of solvent mixtures that promote Marangoni flows to oppose these drying-induced .

  • Watch These Technicolor Squid Cells Dance to “Insane in the Brain” | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-08-28 16:13:40
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : Smilies , emoticons scientifically proven not . worthless NCBI ROFL : Curvy vs . straight which glass ups your drinking rate Watch These Technicolor Squid Cells Dance to Insane in the Brain” Insane in the Chromatophores from Backyard Brains on Vimeo The folks at Backyard Brains a DIY-neurobiology project , made these pigment-producing cells in a dead squid pulse to the base beats of Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain . 8221 Go watch that thing right . now Done Wowed Prepare to be more wowed : They did it by exploiting the fact that electrical current is key to both

  • Caught in Time: The Oldest Bugs Ever Preserved in Amber | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-08-28 01:35:57
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Neil Armstrong , First Man on the Moon , 1930-2012 Pot Dependence in Adolescence is Linked to a Long-Term Drop in IQ Caught in Time : The Oldest Bugs Ever Preserved in Amber A 230-million-year-old mite preserved in amber An insect trapped in amber , perfectly preserved for millions of years : the image is familiar to fans of Jurassic Park but in fact , few insects got stuck in sticky tree resin until about 130 million years ago—long after the Jurassic period ended . That’s when trees first began to produce enough of it to ensnare flies and . mites Or so paleontologists

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