The WorldView-3 satellite is a commercial satellite that launched on August 13, 2014. It captures images at a resolution of 30 centimeters, i.e., each pixel of the camera captures one square foot of land. How good is...
We’ve all owed our existence (on a large part) thanks to the nine months spent growing safely in our mother’s tummy. That bulge to her tummy does something to her skin: it stretches it and, when you are...
Ben Ridgway is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California, USA. He also spent years as a 3D artist in the video game industry and helped to create games for Nintendo, Sony, and...
I love X-Ray images. Being able to see the internals of the human (and animal) body and objects hold a certain fascination. Cameron Drake went a step further. He used X-Ray video footage, extracted small clips (@ 2 sec...
It is not easy to speak out against a culture of rape and misogyny, but many in India have done so. Shilo Shiv Suleman, an “llustrator, Animator, Storyteller,” started a Facebook site to do just that and...
Selfies may seem like a recent fad, but long before modern celebrities obsessed with themselves and a U.S. President snapped one, selfies have been a staple diet of famous and not so famous personalities for many years...
The Gravity movie has generated lots of interest on space missions. However, as Hollywood would have it, it is over-dramatized and no astronauts could survive accidents of the sort depicted in the movie. Not to be...
Never mind the gargantuan disappointment that [most people believe that] the Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie that went around the world was in fact a planned advertisement for the Samsung smartphone (which Samsung...
