- [Park] Jhoan Duran is throwing live on the back fields today and not in the game against the (University of Minnesota) Gophers, which seems like a missed opportunity for the Twins to do one of the funnier things imaginable https://x.com/dohyoungpark/status/1761106639195603027?s=46&t=YqbtRS8DdxdKdoVd0pOTXQ 23 comments baseball
- The Universe Is Way Bigger Than You Can Imagine https://youtu.be/PBlDdNk2UYs 4 comments space
- Dave Meltzer: "Imagine picking this week of any to say they can't grow their audience, PPV up 17%. First $1 million gate, quickest LA Forum sellout in history. Rating up 24.3% in total number and 36.2% in cable universe vs. same week last year. Youngest skewing sports show on cable last week." https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1503898693535076353 269 comments squaredcircle
- The 9 Heaviest Stars in the Universe (They're so big it's hard to imagine) https://weightofstuff.com/heaviest-stars-in-the-universe/ 29 comments space
- Decoding imagined language to treat people suffering from aphasia University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) - Science/News http://kdrevision.com/decoding-imagined-language-to-treat-people-suffering-from-aphasia-university-of-geneva-unige-and-the-university-hospitals-of-geneva-hug/ 2 comments science
- A research team at Georgia State University has identified how the brain changes when artists are in a state of "flow" and found that simply imagining improvised performances elicits the same flow-like brain states as when musicians are singing. https://news.gsu.edu/2021/10/14/study-finds-singing-and-imagining-improvised-music-elicits-flow-like-brain-states/ 31 comments science
- A team of researchers at University of Southern California is helping AI to use its “imagination”, a technique that could also lead to fairer AI, new medicines and increased autonomous vehicle safety https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2021/07/usc-researchers-enable-ai-to-use-its-imagination/ 3 comments science
- A Stanford University AI lab has created some of the most powerful and controversial video manipulation and analysis technology ever imagined. Here's how the scary tool of 21st century propaganda could be put to good use. https://crossminds.ai/video/5fa5f1853493db1670280017/ 5 comments artificial
- A Stanford University AI lab has created some of the most powerful and controversial video manipulation and analysis technology ever imagined. Here's how the scary tool of 21st century propaganda could be put to good use. https://crossminds.ai/video/5fa5f1853493db1670280017/ 3 comments cogsci
- Imagine moving one million books to your new book store 15 miles away - Cambridge University Library just hit their millionth moved book after only 18 months. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/MillionBooks 159 comments books
- An imaginative cutaway illustration of SpaceX's BFS (by Nick Oberg, University of Groningen) https://www.astro.rug.nl/~oberg/bfs.jpg 27 comments space
- Gravbox, an augmented-reality sandbox built by undergraduates, lets users mold their own universe out of sand, then observe how gravity influences an object as it travels through the imagined environment. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/01/augmented-reality-gravity-sandbox 6 comments space
- Using fMRI signals and Deep Neural Network AI, Kyoto University researchers decode and predict what a subject is seeing or imagining based on brain scan patterns only, demonstrating a homology between human and machine vision and its utility for brain-based information retrieval. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15037 6 comments science
- Because It's Time for 'New, Radical Ideas,' TED Talk on Universal Basic Income Gets Thunderous Applause: 'Just imagine how much talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all,' said historian Rutger Bregman during talk https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/26/because-its-time-new-radical-ideas-ted-talk-universal-basic-income-gets-thunderous 709 comments worldnews
- "So there was a little space around the far side of the Moon where I was shadowed from both the Earth and the Sun and that was pretty amazing. I could see more stars than I could possibly imagine. It really makes you wonder about our place in the Universe and what we’re all about." http://www.learningandhosting.com/2017/04/to-see-earth-and-moon-in-single-glance.html 15 comments science
- "So there was a little space around the far side of the Moon where I was shadowed from both the Earth and the Sun and that was pretty amazing. I could see more stars than I could possibly imagine. It really makes you wonder about our place in the Universe and what we’re all about." https://medium.com/learning-for-life/to-see-earth-and-moon-in-a-single-glance-89d094f6d40f 521 comments space
- Imagine if Hilary actually won the election in a different universe and the people who voted her, shifted into that reality? https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/5c1eq0/imagine_if_hilary_actually_won_the_election_in_a/ 10 comments aliens
- Imagination offers Linux-running MIPS CPU to universities (full Verilog code, docs, FPGA config) http://blog.imgtec.com/mips-processors/mipsfpga-opens-up-the-mips-architecture-to-universities-worldwide 33 comments linux
- ACLE statement on the student expulsions: ‘[I]t is difficult to imagine a situation in which a court would side with the [University of Oklahoma] on this matter’ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/03/12/aclu-of-oklahoma-it-is-difficult-to-imagine-a-situation-in-which-a-court-would-side-with-the-university-of-oklahoma-on-this-matter/ 29 comments law
- Based on most current multiverse theories, is there an estimated number of possible universes, either being created or in existence? And if it seems to be an infinite number could this mean that anything you imagine has either occurred, will occur, or is occurring? http://www.universetoday.com/113900/parallel-universes-and-the-many-worlds-theory/ 14 comments science
- Imaginable scale of the known universe http://vimeo.com/19568852 34 comments space
- Imagine being born blind, and then imagine beginning to lose your hearing at the age of 5. Now imagine that you're graduating from Binghamton University and will begin working for Amazon in August. http://www.binghamton.edu/inside/index.php/inside/story/commencement-2013-profile-michael-forzano 13 comments technology
- Look at Romney's transition site. Imagine the parallel universe where this is live! *shudder* http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/07/romneys_transition_site.html 4 comments politics
- A Clock that Will Last Forever: Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the “wow” factor behind a device known as a “space-time crystal,” a four-dimensional crystal that has periodic structure in time as well as space. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/09/-space-time-crystal-a-4-d-clock-that-will-survive-the-heat-death-of-the-universe.html 7 comments space
- This is how I imagine the sygaldry lab would be at the University, in "The Name of The Wind" http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/7158943880_beafbc091d_b.jpg 3 comments books
- Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-technology-energy-capacity-rechargeable-batteries.html 6 comments science
- Imagine a circle anywhere in the universe. I can guarantee you that there are two points directly opposite each other on the circle with the same temperature. http://hippomath.blogspot.com/2011/06/equal-temperatures-at-two-opposite.html#more 76 comments math
- Grant, Vicksburg & Modern War: "Far from the callous butcher of popular imagination, Grant was actually a sophisticated commander who implicitly rejected the universally accepted theory and practice of war in favor of an approach that presaged the warfare of today." http://www.military.com/forums/0,15240,115699,00.html 20 comments history
- "Food pipe cancer doubles in men" - seriously, does the BBC imagine readers are now so universally stupid and ill-educated that they can't manage "oesophageal cancer"? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11108218 64 comments science
- Miguel Batista on the fans reaction to him replacing Stephen Strasburg: "Imagine if you go there to see Miss Universe - and you end up having Miss Iowa" http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/07/strasburg-diagnosis-shoulder-inflamation/1 10 comments sports
- "Imagine if you go to see Miss Universe, then you end up having Miss Iowa, you might get those kind of boos" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/27/ar2010072706093.html 4 comments baseball
- Carl Sagan: "Consider again that pale blue dot ... Imagine that God created the whole universe for one of the ten million or so species on that speck of dust..." [follow-up video to A Universe Not Made For Us] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_naqhynog0 28 comments science
- Imagine an alternate universe where Jamestown was a socialist colony, Thomas Jefferson argued for a bridge between church and state, FDR caused the Great Depression, and Joe McCarthy was a national hero. Welcome to the world of conservative revisionist history. http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100401/pl_mcclatchy/3466905 18 comments reddit.com
- Sometime in the future science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/anything-beyond-the-unive_b_455260.html 17 comments philosophy
- Alternate universe alternate history: "Imagine, if you will, a world in which Hitler's glorious master plan had instead ended in ignominious failure, and the Allies had somehow emerged the victors." http://www.theonion.com/content/news/alternate_universe_sci_fi_channel 22 comments history
- The human perception of time as a sequence of moments is just a neurological artifact, an outgrowth of the chunk-by-chunk way our brains perceive reality. As the famous geneticist J. B. S. Haldane said: The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/physics.html?pg=2&topic=physics&topic_set= 106 comments science
- Parallel Universes: Are They More than a Figment of Our Imagination? http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/11/parallel-univer.html 16 comments science
- Imagine if a group of rabid creationists started fire-bombing the homes of University of California professors to prevent them from teaching evolution. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/08/05/ed6d124qs1.dtl 2 comments politics
- Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass; thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uob-apw061908.php 6 comments science
- "We've all been taught that our bodies, the Earth, and in fact all matter in the universe is composed of tiny building blocks called atoms. Now imagine if this weren't the case." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071002100235.htm 8 comments science
