Zoomii is an interesting and well executed Zoomable User Interface (ZUI) for browsing books on Amazon. With Zoomii you see virtual bookshelves that you can zoom in and out of, a little bit like the experience of exploring a physical bookstore. I reckon they should tweak Zoomii so when you zoom towards a book cover [...]

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Have you ever gotten into one of those silly arguments about the colour of something? You know where you’re sure that a t-shirt is red, while your friend is 100% sure its redish yellow. Frustrating isn’t it.
Strange as it is, both of you can be utterly right.
You both “see” a slightly different colour because of [...]

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See how to cut glass with a scissors!
Neat – a really close up image showing the inside of the human eye.

Internationally renowed virtuoso Joshua Bell goes busking in a Washington D.C. subway. To find out how passerbys reacted and how much he made you can read this Washington Post article. I heard him play a [...]

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Turn your old CDs into jewelry!
An interesting Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides (Psychology) and John Tooby (Anthropology), University of California Santa Barbara.
Want to take part in a short online research study into the connections between music and personality? If you’re interested and live in the UK or Ireland you can pop over here for [...]

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