Topic: logisch - on March 26, 2014 at 5:14:00 PM CET
How optical illusions trick your brain, according to science
Stotter's work takes advantage of the fact that our eyes skim and our brains tend to jump to conclusions. The act of seeing something begins with light rays bouncing off an object. These rays enter the eyes through the cornea, which is the clear, outer portion of the eye. The cornea then bends or refracts the light rays as they go through the black part of your eye, the pupil. The iris — the colored portion of your eye — contracts or expands to change the amount of light that goes through.
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Topic: logisch - on January 21, 2014 at 3:47:00 PM CET
Slow-motion Match Burning
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Topic: logisch - on July 10, 2013 at 1:38:00 PM CEST
Entscheidung in Düsseldorf: Gericht stärkt Raucher im Kampf gegen Wohnungskündigung
Rauchen zählt zum vertragsgemäßen Gebrauch der Wohnung - mit dieser Begründung hat das Landgericht Düsseldorf einem starken Raucher Prozesskostenhilfe gewährt. Der Mann klagt gegen die Kündigung. Die Vorinstanz hatte seinen Antrag auf Beihilfe noch abgelehnt.
Der Fall sorgte in der vergangenen Woche für Aufsehen: Einem 74-jährigen Mann war die Wohnung fristlos gekündigt worden, weil er zu viel geraucht hatte. Die Vermieterin hatte argumentiert, die Geruchsbelästigung für die anderen Hausbewohner sei zu hoch. Der Mann klagte dagegen - doch das Amtsgericht Düsseldorf lehnte seinen Antrag auf Prozesskostenhilfe ab. Die Klage habe kaum Aussichten auf Erfolg, befand der Richter.
Die nächsthöhere Instanz sieht das jedoch anders - und hat die Entscheidung nun wieder gekippt. Das Landgericht Düsseldorf teilte mit, dem Mann die Prozesskostenhilfe bewilligt zu haben, nachdem dieser sofort Beschwerde gegen die Entscheidung eingelegt hatte.
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Topic: logisch - on July 9, 2013 at 5:33:00 PM CEST
Federal Judge Allows EFF's NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed
Rejects Government's State Secret Privilege Claims in Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama
San Francisco - A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government's latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) long-running challenge to the government's illegal dragnet surveillance programs. Today's ruling means the allegations at the heart of the Jewel case move forward under the supervision of a public federal court.
"The court rightly found that the traditional legal system can determine the legality of the mass, dragnet surveillance of innocent Americans and rejected the government's invocation of the state secrets privilege to have the case dismissed," said Cindy Cohn, EFF's Legal Director.
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Topic: logisch - on July 6, 2013 at 5:06:00 PM CEST
Kim Dotcom blasts New Zealand PM in court
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom speaks as he comes face to face for the first time with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key as lawmakers examine a controversial proposal allowing intelligence agencies to spy on local residents at Bowen House in Wellington on July 03, 2013.
Tensions between Kim Dotcom and Prime Minister John Key were raised as the pair sparred at a parliamentary committee hearing on the government’s proposed surveillance law, with Dotcom voicing his opposition to the controversial legislation.
The New Zealand government has proposed a change in the law to allow the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCJB) to provide support to the New Zealand Police, Defense Force and the Security Intelligence Service. Dotcom was voicing his opposition to the law and was the star of the show on the second day of hearings of the secretive Security and Intelligence Committee.
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Topic: logisch - on July 6, 2013 at 4:03:00 PM CEST
Why do protesters in Cairo use laser pointers?
At the beginning, they were used to light up snipers on rooftops. Later, it just became fashionable to use them, and such things spread very fast among the youth of Cairo, who can find the high power laser pointers for sale on the sidewalks. The article contains amazing photos of a chopper lit up by green laser pointers
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Topic: logisch - on July 5, 2013 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Office Paper to Toilet Paper Machine
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Topic: logisch - on June 28, 2013 at 2:56:00 PM CEST
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde hair and the name Julian Paul Assange.
Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. With his cold war-style embassy walk-in, he became something else: the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks. For the next three months, Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange, he says, for a total of about $5,000. The FBI flew him internationally four times for debriefings, including one trip to Washington D.C., and on the last meeting obtained from Thordarson eight hard drives packed with chat logs, video and other data from WikiLeaks.
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Topic: logisch - on September 27, 2011 at 8:05:00 AM CEST
Dresdner Codex - "Weltuntergangsbuch" der Maya digitalisiert
Was für Wissenschaftler ein Rätsel darstellt, ist für Anhänger des Weltuntergang ein großer Tag: Am 21. Dezember 2012 geht der Kalender der mittelamerikanischen Maya-Indianer zu Ende - und damit die ganze Welt, wie manch einer vermutet. Einziger Beleg: eine rund 800 Jahre alte Handschrift der Maya, die nun digitalisiert wurde.
Dieses Buch befindet sich in der Dresdner Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek und ist nach deren Angaben eines der wertvollsten im Bestand.
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Topic: logisch - on April 20, 2010 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
F*ck the society
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Topic: logisch - on April 17, 2010 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
Non-flying circus: John Cleese's £3,300 taxi fare
He's more famous for a sketch about a Norwegian blue parrot than a Norwegian taxi, but John Cleese may have to change his routine. The actor and comedian reportedly took a cab from Oslo to Brussels on Friday costing 30,000 kroner (£3,300) after he was stranded, along with thousands of others, in the Norwegian capital by the volcanic ash plume from Iceland.
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Topic: logisch - on April 16, 2010 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Komiker Cleese nahm Taxi von Oslo nach Brüssel
Der britische Komiker John Cleese (70) wollte offenbar nicht warten: Wegen der Flugverbote im norwegischen Oslo hat er ein Taxi nach Brüssel bestellt. Der Rundfunksender NRK berichtete, dass der mit "Monty Python" berühmt gewordene Brite sich am Freitag bei "Viken Taxi" in Horten telefonisch mit der Frage nach den Kosten für die Fahrt über 1.500 km erkundigt hatte. Umgerechnet 3.800 Euro als Antwort schreckten ihn nicht ab, sondern führten zur endgültigen Bestellung.
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