The biggest problem with 3D, though, is the “convergence/focus” issue. A couple of the other issues — darkness and “smallness” — are at least theoretically solvable. But the deeper problem is that the audience must focus their eyes at the plane of the screen — say it is 80 feet away. This is constant no matter what.
But their eyes must converge at perhaps 10 feet away, then 60 feet, then 120 feet, and so on, depending on what the illusion is. So 3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another. And 600 million years of evolution has never presented this problem before. All living things with eyes have always focussed and converged at the same point.
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Kathy Wendolkowski is a 49-year-old suburban mother of three with a secret life.
When she is not busy in her kitchen, or doing data entry at home as a contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency, she slips back in time to 1922, joining the crew of the HMS Foxglove, a 1,200-ton minesweeper on patrol along the China coast near Fuchau, north of colonial Hong Kong.
Along with hundreds of OldWeather.org volunteers around the world, Wendolkowski works at her home computer, slowly paging through photo images of the daily logs of 282 Royal Navy ships that sailed the globe from 1914 to 1924.
By extracting the log-keepers’ handwritten, six-a-day weather observations and transferring them to an online digital database, the volunteers are filling large voids in the planet’s observational record. A more complete record can ultimately improve weather forecasting in many places around the world, and provide a more accurate accounting of how the global climate has changed over time.
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Glad the chart focuses on the positives when it can - look at Nevada for some serious silver lining, lol.
a beautiful intersection between biotechnology and information theory.
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Understand the motivations behind the actions.
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Facebook and Twitter are the big boys in the social networking space. So big, in fact, that we’ve probably written about them a bit too much in 2010. But hey, why stop in December? This breakdown was put together by Digital Surgeons and shows demographic statistics (and a few fun facts) for both sites. You may know that Facebook is much larger with 500 million users compared to Twitter’s 106 million, but did you know that 52 percent of Tweeters update their status every day while only 12 percent of Facebook users do the same? How about the fact that half of Twitter’s users are in college compared to only 28 percent of Facebook users. It shows just how much Facebook has changed since its days as a university-only social network. Enjoy.
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Infographic of the Day: The Facebook Map of the World | Co.Design - Butler first tabulated the number of friends between each city, and what latitude and longitude each friend was at. Then, he created a color code: The more connections between two places, the lighter the line is; the fewer, the darker. What emerged, of course, is a map of the world unlike any other. That is, it’s not a map of roads or internet connections or airplane routes — but a map of human relationships. Our physical geography is simply an emergent quality.
[sic]…what really boggles the mind is why Facebook isn’t doing more work like this with its data, or least letting a select few use it — the company possesses the greatest catalog of human life ever created. It’s no wonder that social scientists dream of getting just a fraction of that data, to study everything from how social connections are related to job markets, to disease transmission across city borders. After all, Facebook users are the ones who’ve provided this data.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leuub864l21qd3654o1_250.png)
Infographic of the Day: The Facebook Map of the World | Co.Design - Butler first tabulated the number of friends between each city, and what latitude and longitude each friend was at. Then, he created a color code: The more connections between two places, the lighter the line is; the fewer, the darker. What emerged, of course, is a map of the world unlike any other. That is, it’s not a map of roads or internet connections or airplane routes — but a map of human relationships. Our physical geography is simply an emergent quality.
[sic]…what really boggles the mind is why Facebook isn’t doing more work like this with its data, or least letting a select few use it — the company possesses the greatest catalog of human life ever created. It’s no wonder that social scientists dream of getting just a fraction of that data, to study everything from how social connections are related to job markets, to disease transmission across city borders. After all, Facebook users are the ones who’ve provided this data.
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