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Seven Theories on Time
1. We May Not Live in the Present
What if we told you that what you think of as “the present” is actually slightly in the past? Basically, your life isn’t a live feed: It’s a delayed broadcast that your brain is constantly editing and censoring for your convenience. The delay isn’t much — what’s 80 milliseconds between you and your brain? Nothing, right? Well, a group of neuroscientists disagree. They’ve come up with some freaky time-altering experiments to prove that this difference can change your perspective of cause and effect.
For example, in one experiment the volunteers were told to press a button that would cause a light to flash, with a short delay. After 10 or so tries, the volunteers were beginning to see the flash immediately after they pressed the button — their brains had gotten used to the delay and decided to edit it out.
But that’s not the freaky part. When the scientists removed the delay, the volunteers reported seeing the flash before they pressed the button. Their brains, in trying to reconstruct the events, messed up and switched the order. They were seeing the consequence first and the action second.
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At Ease in Taipei
by Doug McNamee
Shot and processed with iPhone.
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士林 Night Market, Taipei.
by Doug McNamee
Shot and processed with iPhone.
(click fomo images from taiwanland iphone adventures)
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![Lucas (Still) Contends Han Never Shot First, You Were Just Confused
“The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.”
Gah.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5q29ZJdZ1qzohgto1_500.jpg)
Lucas (Still) Contends Han Never Shot First, You Were Just Confused
“The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.”
Gah.
Woman’s infected jaw removed, 3D printed replacement implanted.
3-D printers are not just used for making plastic pirate ships and other toys. Now, doctors are using the technology for custom bone transplants. In June, an 83-year-old Belgain woman received a new titanium lower jaw created by such a printer, marking the first complete lower jaw transplant.
The woman suffered a chronic jawbone infection and was too old for lengthy (and therefore risky) surgery. Using the 3-D printed jawbone made the reconstructive operation go much faster. The printer used tiny layers of titanium powder fused together to form the personalized implant, which took hours, rather than days (excluding the time it took to design the lower jaw bone). And the surgery took far less time than the average reconstructive operation.
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