Colorblind Boy Enjoys Colourful Flowers for First Time Using Enchroma Glasses

Researchers use DNA strands to create nanobot computer inside living animal

http://phys.org/news/2014-04-dna-strands-nanobot-animal.html#jCp

Semantics

Semantics (from Ancient Greek: σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant")^[1][2] is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, like words, phrases, signs, and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotation. Linguistic semantics is the study of meaning that is used for understanding human expression through language. Other forms of semantics include the semantics of programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

The Safer Cigarette

I found the most fascinating article. The article is about the elevated risk of lung cancer in American men compared to Japanese men. It is interesting article because there is a higher smoking prevalence in Japanese men, but they have a lower risk of lung cancer compared to American men.
First thing the article addresses is genetics; perhaps Caucasians are genetically disposed to lung cancer compared to the Japanese men. This theory was wrong because rates of Japanese born Americans and Japanese immigrants were the same as American men, so genetics is not the main factor. The mean duration of smoking for the American and Japanese men was the same. The next thing that was evaluated was the age of smoking of the American and Japanese men...

http://islaslab.blogspot.nl/2011/05/safer-cigarette.html 

This is what the Internet actually looks like

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/04/tech/gallery/internet-undersea-cables/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

Historical Photos In Color

Is it possible to be dyslexic in Chinese?

Dear Cecil:

Is it possible to be dyslexic in Chinese? Surely someone with dyslexia wouldn't be likely to misconstrue a word's meaning if that word were represented as a distinctive symbol as in Chinese, right? I mean, if you were to show a dyslexic a picture of a house, that person would still easily recognize it, even though he might have trouble deciphering the written word. Or am I totally in the dark about dyslexia?

— Rudy, Vallejo, California PS: Is it true that the order of letters in a word is unimportant in reading, aside from the placemen

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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2591/is-it-possible-to-be-dyslexic-in-chinese

Sea Sapphire

Time-lapse compilation of thunderstorms,the milkyway and northern lights

Robotic Drum Prosthesis Project