Dr. Goulu

GuruMedL’art des chatouilles dans lequel on peut trouver un certain plaisir, limite masochiste (algédonique), mais que nous ne pouvons nous appliquer à nous même, en solitaire… Selon le psychologue anglais Robert Provine : Pratiquer les chatouilles...

GuruMedSous une lumière normale, ce cafard semble assez normal. Mais sous un éclairage fluorescent, ses trois taches, deux grandes et une toute petite, peu visible sous le bon angle, s’illuminent comme un sapin de Noël.

Visualizing the fight against poverty. Submit your best development data viz by clicking on the pencil icon on the right!

People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That’s been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It’s actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever.

The James Webb Space Telescope – NASA’s successor to Hubble – recently reached a pretty big milestone: all of the segments of its primary mirror have completed construction, and are ready to be handed over to NASA.

Approach a pond in July or August and crouch down. Focus on the surface of the water, checking the floating leaves or debris by the water edge and you will likely see jittery, shiny green flies.

This is a sight that will probably never be seen again: two space shuttles nose-to-nose in the same location.

- L'Afrique va devoir faire face au vieillissement rapide de sa population.
- Les quatre plaies des peuples du Sahel : crise alimentaire, conflits armés, criquets et choléra.

For those who cannot follow the mathematics, belief in the Higgs is an act of faith, not of rationality. (...) I am an atheist, and I fully recognize science’s indispensable role in advancing human prospects in ways both abstract and tangible. Yet, whereas the Higgs discovery gives me no access to insight about the mystery of existence, a walk through the magnificent temples of Angkor offers a glimpse of the unknowable and the inexplicable beyond the world of our experience.

A 128-qubit D-Wave One quantum computer has solved the puzzle of how certain proteins fold, Nature News Blog reports.

GuruMedLes astrophysiciens ont créé la plus réaliste simulation assistée par ordinateur, de l’évolution de l’univers à ce jour, suivant l’activité du Big Bang jusqu’à maintenant, un laps de temps d’environ 14 milliards d’années, en haute résolution.