December 2010
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WatchLeonardo da Vinci, Geometrical solids animation, Video credit: Victoria and Albert Museum
“This animation shows how Leonardo composed illustrations of a dodecahedron: a solid composed of twelve pentagons – in other words, twelve identical, five-sided faces. He split it into segments in order to calculate its volume, sliced off its corners and built pyramids on the resulting faces.”
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Nature Has A Tendency To Reduce Complexity
“There exists a tendency in nature to reduce complexity via modularization. This tendency grows when more modules become available. Finally this tendency enables nature to create intelligent and very sophisticated creatures. I encountered relations in several areas of physics and in human interactions. Physics...
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How the brain’s architecture makes our view of the world unique
The Ebbinghaus illusion. Most people will see the first circle as bigger than the second one Researchers found a strong link between the surface area of the primary visual cortex and the extent to which volunteers perceived the size illusion — the smaller the area, the more pronounced the visual illusion. (Credit:...