Movies Every Physics Student Should Watch

Posted on May 13, 2021 by HeyJK

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Physics movies affect many of us powerfully due to the combined impact of scenery and music, technical detail and philosophical dialogue, futuristic lighting and a multitude of other special effects, all of which elicit deep feelings and even help us to reflect on our lives.

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Mind over matter: brain chip allows paralysed man to write

Posted on May 12, 2021 by HeyJK

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Paralysed from the neck down, the man stares intently at a screen. As he imagines handwriting letters, they appear before him as typed text thanks to a new brain implant.

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The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

Posted on May 10, 2021 by HeyJK

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Recently, I was looking for a way to add a spiral to my website1. My search led me to this CodePen, which I found fascinating. For one, the code for simulating the spiral was very simple. But what really caught my attention was what happened when I started playing with the provided “angle” slider.

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The Unbuilt Streets of California’s Ghost Metropolis

Posted on May 10, 2021 by HeyJK

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In 1958, a Czech-born sociology professor named Nat Mendelsohn purchased 82,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, and founded the optimistically named California City.

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Sell! Sell! Sell!

Posted on May 5, 2021 by HeyJK

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Hulu series features story of Winter Park Boat Tour

Posted on May 3, 2021 by HeyJK

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The Places Where We Live is a three-part Hulu series featuring a series of short films inspired by real people, places, and events across the country. Hulu describes the series as “modern folklore about everyday situations and the things we take for granted.” It’s a must-watch.

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Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups

Posted on May 3, 2021 by HeyJK

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Lately I’ve been learning to play guitar. I wanted to be able to try out a bunch of different pickups on my guitar, to get a feel for what sound I prefer.

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Bartosz Ciechanowski

Posted on May 3, 2021 by HeyJK

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I’m a huge fan of the transform property. Combining rotations, translations, and scalings is one of the easiest way to modify a shape of a UIView or a CALayer.

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Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Posted on May 3, 2021 by HeyJK

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The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omnipresence in modern day, the operation of an engine may be cryptic.

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Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?

Posted on May 2, 2021 by HeyJK

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If electric vehicles are ever going to fully supplant gas guzzlers on the world’s roads, they’re going to need an entirely new type of battery.

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‘Brain-like device’ mimics human learning in major computing breakthrough

Posted on April 30, 2021 by HeyJK

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Scientists have developed a device modelled on the human brain that can learn by association in the same way as Pavlov’s dog. In the famous experiment, Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned a dog to associate a bell with food.

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🚨 What really happened at Basecamp

Posted on April 28, 2021 by HeyJK

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The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009, Basecamp customer service representatives began keeping a list of names that they found funny.

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Posted on April 27, 2021 by HeyJK

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× Data Sources DigitalGlobe (https://www.digitalglobe.com) JSC Vimpel (http://spacedata.vimpel.ru) LeoLabs (https://www.leolabs.space) Planet (https://www.planet.com) SeeSat-L ( http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html, https://www.prismnet.

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Tom & Jerry made 60fps using AI

Posted on April 21, 2021 by HeyJK

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Interpolated to 60fps using DAIN-APP v0.41 using mode 3 and manually removed every single duplicate frame. The video might be out of sync at times because I’m a very bad video editor. Let me know what you think of the interpolation though!

*Might not be viewable on mobile & might be monetized due t

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The Interpreter

Posted on April 21, 2021 by HeyJK

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Correction appended. One morning last July, in the rain forest of northwestern Brazil, Dan Everett, an American linguistics professor, and I stepped from the pontoon of a Cessna floatplane onto the beach bordering the Maici River, a narrow, sharply meandering tributary of the Amazon.

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Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud ❧ Current Affairs

Posted on April 21, 2021 by HeyJK

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A company called Coinbase has gone public, and Wall Street seems excited. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange—it allows you to buy, store, and trade cryptocurrencies, which are invented kinds of alternative moneys.

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Pentagon scientists invent a microchip which senses COVID-19 in your body before you show symptoms

Posted on April 12, 2021 by HeyJK

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Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body BEFORE you show symptoms and a filter that extracts the virus from blood Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which wil

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Florida blueberry season is here, as is a new blueberry variety from the University of Florida

Posted on April 9, 2021 by HeyJK

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April is Florida blueberry season, a time to savor these sweet fruits from our very own soil. You can pick them yourself or buy them from the store or market. Recently, the University of Florida developed and released another tasty blueberry variety to add to the seasonal mix. 

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Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkey play video games with his brain

Posted on April 9, 2021 by HeyJK

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Pager the nine-year-old macaque can now play Pong thanks to a Neuralink implanted in each side of his brain.

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Boston Dynamics introduces ‘Stretch’, new warehouse worker robot

Posted on March 29, 2021 by HeyJK

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Stretch is the first robot for one task that the company has built, based on requests received from companies around the world, said Michael Perry, vice president of business development for Boston Dynamics.

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