BRAINS

"Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought."
-Wall Street Journal

Read the full article here.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121450609076407973.html

Large Hadron Collider at CERN

This diagram shows the LHC and the SPS pre-accelerator (in blue) and the transfer lines that will connect them (in red). Spanning the France-Swiss border (shown by green crosses), the 27-km LHC tunnel will receive a beam that has been pre-accelerated to 450 GeV in the smaller SPS storage ring. The transfer lines will remove each beam from the SPS and inject them into the LHC where they will be accelerated to the full energy of 7 TeV.

Here's a really interesting article explaining how the Large Hadron Collider at CERN actually works. It's really impressive how it all works considering it will apparently generate 2GB of data every 10 seconds.

http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/large-hadron-collider-as-a-mas.html

This is a breakdown of the computer model, a bit more detailed: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/WorkBookComputingModel

Here is a whole multimedia gallery of images from CERN: http://multimedia-gallery.web.cern.ch/multimedia-gallery/PhotoGallery_Main.aspx

Forget What You Know

The Torus Tube as a geometric - mathematical model of the universe.

Here is an interesting article, I found on reddit, on the topic of how models in scientific advancement are becoming obsolete as the amount of information available increases. The article also takes a look at Google and how they're transforming information as we know it (still). Keep in mind this is an opinion based article.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory

I'm not too sure how I feel about this as I'm surrounded by models all the time with software. This is where I go off topic from the article: I feel that a general majority of people are too quick to settle on searching for a previously defined "model" to achieve what they're seeking rather than striving for advancement to create their own "model". Yes, there are times when a previously defined "model" fits what you need to achieve your goal, even if small modifications are necessary.