omg the slow mo, it looks like a movie scene with a ninja cat.
And that’s what being Asian is all about~
(In before people who can’t take a joke and start ranting about racial stereotypes.)
I’ve been meaning to draw this for over two years now ^^; I’ve finally finished editing Knite book 1 for printing so you can expect frequent updates again! :D
If you enjoyed this one, check out my LIKE AN ARTIST COMICI may or may not be guilty of pulling that last one. On more than just telemarketers.
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(A child’s response to meeting a gay couple for the first time.)
Children: getting it more than most adults do.
Remind me again: Why do adults think kids are stupid and inferior?
The Candle Problem
Given a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle, how can you fix the candle to the wall so that its wax won’t drip onto the table below?
See Answer Below
Pin the box to the wall, put the candle in the box, and light it.
In experiments, Gestalt psychologist Karl Duncker found that most subjects instead tried to pin the candle directly to the wall or to use melted wax to affix it there (neither worked). Duncker called this “functional fixedness” — a “mental block against using an object in a new way that is required to solve a problem.” In this case, subjects had “fixated” on the box’s function as a container, which prevented them from considering it as a platform. If the box was empty at the start of the experiment, they were more likely to find the correct solution.
In a 2000 study, psychologists Tim German and Margaret Defeyter found the 6- and 7-year-olds show signs of functional fixedness, but 5-year-olds appear immune to it: “Rather than taking into account only the properfunction of an object, they adopt and agents-goals view of function in which any intentional use of an object can be its function.”
Super-Accurate Atomic Clock sets Time Travel Record
Setting the time on a clock is easy – unless it’s one of the most accurate in the world. Now a light signal sent between two German cities has set a new record for the transmission of an atomic clock’s tick. The feat, involving an optical fibre more than 900 kilometres long, could pave the way for a global network of synchronised, ultra-accurate clocks capable of testing fundamental physics.Atomic clocks use precisely tuned electromagnetic waves to track the incredibly regular vibrations of atoms. Older atomic clocks tracked atoms that vibrate at microwave frequencies, while the latest generation use even faster optical frequencies. But while microwave clocks can be synchronised using satellite transmissions, these signals are too noisy for the more precise optical clocks.
Instead, Katharina Predehl of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues sent laser signals from an optical clock at Germany’s national metrology institute (PTB) in Braunschweig through 920 km of optical fibre to their receiver at the Max Planck Institute, about 600 kilometres away.
The uncertainty in the frequency of the signal that arrived was just 4 x 10 -19seconds, around 1000 times more accurate than signals transmitted by satellite methods. This means it should be possible to synchronise two distant optical clocks.
The distance is enough to beat the team’s previous record – an optical fibre 146km long, stretching over a distance of 70 km.
Predehl suggests creating a network of optical clocks spread across the world. “That’s the dream,” she says, adding that talks are now underway for a European clock network.
Such a network is unlikely to impact everyday timekeeping, but accurate clocks are essential for measuring potential changes in fundamental physical constants or testing general relativity. Though Einstein’s theory of gravity is the accepted one, it might break down if measured with greater accuracy.
Jacob Aaron, NewScientist
- If a clock gets hungry it goes back four seconds.
- Once you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen the mall.
- Acupuncture is a jab well done.
- Jumping off a Paris bridge makes you in Seine.
- Bakers trade recipes on a knead to know basis.
- Your calendar’s days are numbered.
- I break into song if I can’t find the key.
- A dyslexic poet writes inverse.
oh my god I laughed at all of these
Why do I love puns so much?! XD
