Daily Archives: January 3, 2012

The History of Bollywood

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Deskarati

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production … Continue reading →

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Erbium

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Deskarati
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Patterns of connections reveal brain functions

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Deskarati

For more than a decade, neuroscientists have known that many of the cells in a brain region called the fusiform gyrus specialize in recognizing faces. However, those cells don’t act alone: They need to communicate with several other parts of … Continue reading →

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This Mindblowing Photo of a World Map In a Water Drop Is Real

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Deskarati

You may think that this image recently posted on Reddit is a 3D rendering or some Photoshop trickery, but it’s a real photo. A reflection of a world map through a water drop. It was taken by Markus Reugels, who … Continue reading →

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Commentariolus

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Deskarati

The “Commentariolus” (“Little Commentary”) is Nicolaus Copernicus’s forty-page outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De … Continue reading →

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