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Watching "Lie to Me" Decreases the Ability to Distinguish Between Truth and Lies

Lie to Me - TV drama based on science? "Lie to Me", an american crime drama, tells the story of Dr. Cal Lightman, who together with his colleagues is

The World Was About to End. Few Analog Photos from SteemSTEM Meetup @ CERN

It was a cold day of February. A group of the 20 greatest minds from Steemit received a call and they already knew that they had to appear THERE immediately. Something

Insight #8: Declarative Memory - how is our knowledge stored?

How does psychology understand the functioning of human memory? In today's Insight we will take a look at declarative memory - one of the main types of memory we

How does the butterfly effect fits into the chaos theory?

Have you ever wondered why we suck at predicting the weather?, As much as we like to blame the weatherman it's not his fault, the answer takes us back to the 1960s

The Building Blocks of Life - Basics

By naobim on pixabay.com ”But everything is made up of amino acids, right?” Sometimes, I forget that biology is not easy. Sure, I know that advanced techniques are

The Amateur Mycologist - 14 (!) Mushroom Species - Taricha torosa, A Deadly Poisonous Newt - And Ceanothus gloriosus, Perfect Native Flowers.

Look at all those mushrooms! I would love to say that I found all of these in the forests of Northern California and Oregon, but that would be a lie. Not only a

KABUKI SYNDROME: A RARE HEREDITARY SICKNESS

Source Kabuki Syndrome (KS) is a hereditary sickness with multiple inherited anomalies as well as intellectual disabilities. This syndrome is also known as Kabuki

Causality does not exist, but synchronicity does

We have all experienced on occasion a coincidence that seemed so unlikely that we find it magical and epiphanic as if there were connections between events, people

Curious Mathematics: Hedgehogs, why cyclones exist and why 3-dimensional humans can't have nice hair

Pixabay Hey guys, do some of you happen to have short to medium long hair? If so, I am inclined to presume that at least some of you have been pondering about the

Let's Splice! (My Research, Vol. 3)

pixabay.com ”So, will you splice them together?” I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but for some reason, people associate the word “splicing” with “combining two

Carl Gustav Jung, Wolfgang Pauli & their idea of SYNCHRONICITY. A unique marriage of psychology and physics

A star fall, a phone call, It joins all, Synchronicity. The Police - "Synchronicity" The subject discussed in this article is very complex and I will present

Dark matter versus neutron stars... round 1...

Neutron stars are amazing astrophysical objects on which we have currently a bunch of experimental data. On the other hand, dark matter is still directly elusive,

How onions have inspired particle physicists to design their detectors

I was planning to release a lot of material before the steemstem meetup at CERN, and I only partially managed to do so at the end of the day. I have however decided

The Amateur Mycologist #38 - The Lichen/Fungi Of Geneva, Switzerland ('s Airport) - Xanthoria Lichen, Corprinoid Mushroom, Likely Auricularia Species, And More

These posts are not for foraging. They are intended for entertainment and intellectual satisfaction only. These posts are not a field guide nor comprehensive in

SteemSTEM Meetup at CERN/LHC

As I am sure you have seen in oh... I don't know... 21 other posts... This past Friday, the steemSTEM project had it's very first meetup in Geneva Switzerland at

SteemSTEM MeetUp - A Late Review

As everybody on Earth already knows on February 8-9th there was the first SteemSTEM MeetUp and it.... was… AWESOME! The first to arrive at the restaurant: (We were

There and back again - A steemSTEM meetup at CERN

Good evening to you, After an truly amazing weekend with the steemSTEM community on our meetup an CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, I finally managed to peruse through

Large Hardon Collider Selfie from SteemSTEEM meetup!

The only photo I have from the SteemSTEM meetup that my face impression looks kinda normal! To read about the meetup check this post. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

STEEM at the CERN LHC - the final last words… from the organizer

With STEEM, frontiers can be pushed further. Many say that on the platform. @steemstem is not an exception. We however wanted to demonstrate the statement and do

The significance of mathematics - and why it can prove its own incompleteness

Hey guys, the recent steemSTEM meetup offered so many nice and enlightening conversations about different topics that I even got to discuss mathematics for a while