Chaos

This busy street intersection with no traffic lights is just pure chaos

Anarchy. That’s what it’s like to drive on the streets of Ethiopia. There are no traffic lights, no painted lanes, no rules on who has the right of way, no fear of hitting the car in front of you, and basically no driver has any idea what the other driver is going to do until…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 22

The physical limit of trick shots in billiards

For anyone who has ever had their ass handed to them in a game of pool, take comfort knowing that in the end, physics beats everything. A physicist has calculated how many collisions it takes for billiards to be impossible without a supercomputer. It’s less than you think! Beginning pool players (or the hopelessly incompetent)…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 27

The science of swarms will blow your mind

Here are two things you should do immediately. One: watch this. It’s a jaw-dropping video of starlings in flight that will straight up give you chills. The swirling cloud of birds is called a “murmuration,” and it’s just one example of how animals in very large groups can engage in remarkably coordinated collective behavior. Two:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 22

The Secret Pattern that Converts Chaos into Cat Pictures

We’ve all read Jurassic Park, so we all know how patterns can emerge from a jumble of chaos. Out of a seemingly random assortment of stuff, orderly structures appear. But what if, instead of killer dinosaurs, they were adorable pictures of cats? Here’s the secret of the hidden order within apparent chaos. It’s all thanks…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 9

Watch this: thousands of starlings take wing in the form of a swirling “murmuration”

Check out this jaw-dropping video of a natural phenomenon known as a “murmuration.” The collective noun is used to describe vast numbers of starlings as they whirl through the air like billowing clouds of black, biological smoke. This footage comes to you courtesy of Sophie Windsor Clive, who recently encountered the birds by chance while…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 3

Perfecting chaos radar

We are quickly perfecting devices that can see behind walls. The latest incarnation of this superspy tech uses radio waves and simulated chaos to pinpoint objects that can’t be seen. Radar has been, for quite some time, a good way to see things that aren’t in view. The waves are durable and large, letting them…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 28

Can Complexity Theory Explain Egypt’s Crisis?

Civilization, goes an old maxim, is four meals away from barbarism – once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. That could mean trouble for the political uprising in Egypt. It may also be what triggered it. Scientists who study complex systems have been warning that ever-tighter coupling among the world’s finance, energy…

Tech News Debora MacKenzie - New Scientist Feb 5

iPhone 4 Scalpers Force Beijing Apple Store to Close

Yesterday, one of Apple’s Beijing locations lifted the two-per-customer iPhone 4 limit. The result: chaos, confusion, and the temporary shutdown of the store. Sounds like the scalpers did pretty well for themselves, though. The trouble started not long after the doors opened at 7am, according to MIC Gadget. Customers who had been waiting in line…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 30

This Shattered Clock Doesn’t Let You Know What Time It Isn’t

The Shattered Clock only shows the hour that the time currently is on, every other number is broken apart. It looks like chaos but the idea is to find what’s important above the mess. Above is 3:55. Well, I think. The designers, Igor Barbashin and Daria Volokhova, say the trick is supposedly finding the least…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 25

This busy street intersection with no traffic lights is just pure chaos

The physical limit of trick shots in billiards

The science of swarms will blow your mind

The Secret Pattern that Converts Chaos into Cat Pictures

Watch this: thousands of starlings take wing in the form of a swirling “murmuration”

Perfecting chaos radar

Can Complexity Theory Explain Egypt’s Crisis?

iPhone 4 Scalpers Force Beijing Apple Store to Close

This Shattered Clock Doesn’t Let You Know What Time It Isn’t

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