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Really nice wedding

If you want to cool off a little just look at these appetizing pictures:

They are truly amazing. I wonder how good they taste. Usually the ones who lok good in pictures are not very tasteful.

 Everbody knows that girls like pink and boys like blue. These are the major colors which guide us until we get out of adolescence. There is a study though which says that there are more than marketing stuff and traditional belief. A recent study, published in the 21 issue of Current Biology says that women may be biologically programmed to prefer pink color.

Two neuroscientists form Newcastle University (been there , love their Devonshire Building – I am going to talk about that in a future post) did an experiment with 208 volunteers between 20 and 26.  Participants were asked to move a mouse cursor as quickly as possible to their preferred color from a series of paired, colored rectangles, controlled for hue, saturation and lightness. Each person completed three separate tests, then was retested two weeks later.

On average, the study found, all people generally prefer blue, something researchers have long known. The study also found that while both men and women liked blue, women tended to pick redder shades of blue — reddish-purple hues — while men preferred blue-green.

The scientists say that there is a possibility that women have gain an evolutionary advantage by succeeding in spotting ripe berries and fruits in bushes or even about their ability to raise children by being more attentive to fever signs.

You can check a more detailed article on Time.

Brilliant Showreel from Conrad Ostwald!

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via Diana.

There’s an interesting article on CNN about invisibility.

“Teams of scientists around the globe say they’re making progress on theories and experiments involving cloaking — that is, making things invisible. In theory, all that’s needed to make a small object invisible is something called a superlens, says Graeme Milton, a mathematician at the University of Utah.” says the article.

Well isn’t that nice. This would mean a great deal of thins. Besides the really exciting part which sounds like a Harry Potter movie there are many serious implications to this.

The major aspect which bothers me is the security issue. If we gain the ability to become invisible things might get a little crazy in some places. The may aspect is national security, crime and thefts. Another aspect would imply personal privacy. I wouldn’t enjoy having someone in my house without me seeing them.

Probably the most important aspect will imply a bigger development for the army, but again which army is that, because I don’t imagine that this new discovery will be shared so easily to all states.

There are many ethical aspects that need to be discussed before we can think about becoming invisible.