Fake Model Photography
Posted by Alex on March 31st, 2006Make miniature looking model landscapes out of real photographs. Simple technique utilizing depth-of-field and motion blur effects in Photoshop CS
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Archive for March, 2006
Tourism - a human rights issue?
Posted by Alex on March 31st, 2006Tourism has become a human rights issue - it impacts on the environment, the survival of indigenous people, the wellbeing of other cultures; it also means that our dollars often never reach the host countries. The inequalities and exploitation of the poor by the rich is intrinsic to the worst sort of tourism practices.
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New reversible male contraceptive
Posted by Alex on March 31st, 2006Nonhormonal, reversible, 10 minutes procedure, last 10 years! Doctors inject a gel into the tube that sperm travel through. Fertility returns if you get another injection that dissolves the gel.
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Brains Of Very Smart Kids Mature Later
Posted by Alex on March 30th, 2006Very smart children may seem advanced in many ways, but a new study shows they actually lag behind other kids in development of the �thinking� part of the brain. The delay may promote higher intelligence because it means a child is older and processing more complex experiences while the cortex is building up.
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Photo: Housefly Gets Glasses Made With Lasers
Posted by Alex on March 30th, 2006I must say this is actually pretty awesome. An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of “designer” lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly’s 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.
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