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A collection of videos showing the use of lasers in art, movies, and television.
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A small but well-designed site dedicated to giving the public an interdisciplinary look at the science of emergent phenomena, including medicine, physics, neuroscience, and computing.
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"In the school cafeterias Wansink surveyed, whole fruits were displayed in steel bins in dimly lighted areas of the lunch line. Wansink went to discount store T.J. Maxx and bought a cheap wire fruit rack. He found an extra desk lamp, which he used to shine on the fruit. "Sales of fruit in one school went up 54 percent. Not in a semester: by the end of the second week," Wansink said. "It would have gone up faster, but they kept running out of fruit." "
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