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The Mathematically Perfect Girl

tiagoboldt — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:30:53 +0000

According to the telegraph, a team of mathematicians from Cambridge considered Jessica Alba to be mathematically perfect.

The academics found that it is the ratio between hips and waist that puts the sway into a woman’s walk – and the nearer that ratio is to 0.7, the better.

This ratio provides the body with the right torso strength to produce a more angular swing and bounce to the hips during the walking motion.

Watch the video of those hips swinging.

NOVA – Science Series

tiagoboldt — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:36:22 +0000

NOVA is the highest rated and most watched science series on American public television. It is also one of television’s most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over.

I got really interest in this series, after watching the one about the strings theory, which took me 3 interesting hours. They’re all awesomely well explained, making it easy for anyone to understand them, even if not knowing anything about the subject.

The program is broadcasted by PBS, and has got every episode available online. The archive can be browsed by interest, program title, or year of broadcast.

Know the drugs

tiagoboldt — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:08:00 +0000

Alcohol, LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin, Marijuana and others. You probably know these names, and you also probably know what they do. But, do you know how they act? Mouse Party will teach you how these drugs affect the brain, through a pretty nice flash animation, by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah!