Despite the popularity of Einstein's theories of relativity and his musings on black holes, Einstein's Nobel Prize in physics was actually awarded for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. This discovery revolutionized our understanding of the world around us. But what is the The law of the Photoelectric Effect When you think of Albert Einstein, what do you think of? General relativity? Black holes? Crazy hair? While he certainly made significant contributions to all of those topics during his lifetime, Albert Einstein was perhaps even more well known in his time for his work to understand the photoelectric effect. In fact, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, the honor was stated to be “for his services...

  Short film: 16.45 minutes   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgPMyvZMBY0   channel In the near future, the capital of Sweden has turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. We join four soldiers on a routine mission in ‘Zone 3’, with the assignment to investigate an old surveillance tower that just went offline. That’s the setting in first-time director Andrée Wallin’s short film, who also wrote and production designed it. Produced by Claire Fleming, the film was shot in London with an international cast, while all exteriors were shot in Stockholm. The VFX is done by Goodbye Kansas (goodbyekansas.com)  

Stark warnings. The last few years have seen Artificial Intelligence and robotics finally start to catch up with their science fiction counterparts. Advances in "deep learning" - in which large neural networks are modeled after the human brain - are being used to run everything from Facebook's automatic photo tagging to Google's search engines to Tesla's self-driving cars. So, the natural question becomes 'when will it bring about the dawn of the Terminators?' GEAR UP FOR 'PEOPLE ZOOS' So, there was the craziest author of the 20th century, Phillip K. Dick. Then roboticist David Hanson built an android that looked exactly like the late science fiction writer and then uploaded the writer's collective works onto its software. Let it be...

[caption id="attachment_59583" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] USS William D. Porter (DD-579)[/caption] The jinxed ship called the USS William D. Porter (DD-579). During WWII, the Allies had a ship so jinxed it destroyed itself by nearly destroying something else. The USS William D. Porter (DD-579) was named in honor of Commodore William D. Porter but most just called it the “Willie Dee” – which wasn’t meant to be endearing. Though typical of its class, it had a fierce reputation. Wherever its crew went, people squealed, “Don’t shoot! We’re Republicans!” Which wasn’t meant to be funny. It all started in November 1943. The USS Iowa was headed to North Africa, carrying a precious cargo – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was to attend the Cairo...

  Full Movie: 1.39 hours   https://youtu.be/1zMruvOe15E channel YouTube: Leviathan (1989) Blu-Ray Full Movie. Miss Martin, the CEO of Tri-Oceanic Corp., hires geologist Steven Beck to supervise an undersea mining operation for six months. The crew consists of members Dr. Glen 'Doc' Thompson, Elizabeth 'Willie' Williams, Buzz 'Sixpack' Parrish, Justin Jones, Tony 'DeJesus' Rodero, Bridget Bowman and G.P. Cobb. While working outside their deep sea station in a pressure suit, Sixpack discovers a Soviet shipwreck, Leviathan. The crew salvage a safe from Leviathan, finding records detailing the deaths of several crew members as well as a video log from the captain. Sixpack also finds a flask of vodka which he shares with Bowman. Doc and Beck review the captain's video, which describes...

These happy animals will make your smile! The animals that look like they’re smiling are bound to warm even the stone-cold jaded hearts among us. However, the scientific jury is still out on whether or not animals can/do actually smile. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect that the smiles we see on these animals are a case of pareidolia – our tendency to see human faces in everything around us. And many animals have different complex visual cues to express their emotions that may preclude the need for smiling. Dogs already communicate with each other by raising their haunches, baring their teeth, changing their postures and raising, lowering or wagging their tales, so it would be reasonable to expect that smiles just aren’t...

Elaborate book covers have been Aniko Kolesnikova’s passion since 2009. The Latvian designer-artist, working under the name Mandarin Duck, specializes in creating dragon-, animal-, bird-, fantasy-, and nature-inspired polymer journals. She occasionally takes custom orders, too. Here is a fantastic collection of her work! [gallery gt3_gallery="yes" link="lightbox" ids="59234,59235,59224,59225,59226,59227,59228,59229,59230,59231,59232,59233,59221,59222,59236,59237,59238,59239,59240,59241"]     boredpanda  

The South Korean Beauty by Jaewoon U. He is a landscape photographer based in Seoul with a great eye for finding stunning landscapes reflected in mirror-like lakes and rivers. The reflections in his photos make for beautiful, harmonious compositions, but that’s not all that he’s good at. He has a massive following on his 500px account, so be sure to check out the rest of the work he has there! In the meanwhile, feast your eyes on this rare collection that we feature here! click on pics for slideshow [gallery gt3_gallery="yes" link="lightbox" ids="59014,59015,59016,59017,59018,59019,59020,59021,59022,59023,59024,59025"] boredpanda Jaewoon U: 500px | Twitter  

Explaining that consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, consisting of almost 100 billion cells (neurons) each connected to 10,000 others, yielding some ten trillion nerve connections. It is astounding. We have made a great deal of progress in understanding brain activity, and how it contributes to human behavior. But what no one has so far managed to explain is how all of this results in feelings, emotions and experiences. How does the passing around of electrical and chemical signals between neurons result in a feeling of pain or an experience of red? There is growing suspicion, though,...

Flat earth. One of the great lies told to schoolchildren is that the whole round-earth thing was first proposed by Christopher Columbus, sailing toward the edge of the Earth in hopes of encountering India. The truth is Columbus knew exactly what he was doing because people have been aware of the shape of the Earth for centuries. The ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round all the way back to Aristotle in 350 B.C. And Aristotle wasn't exactly the lone outlier, either. Certain (mostly educated people) for some reason have convinced themselves, in present times, that the idea of a round Earth is merely some ginormous conspiracy to, um ... ??? To do something. However, here are few pointers of...