This Week In Science History, May 20-27 (SLIDESHOW)

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You know John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth–his Mercury capsule circled the Earth three times before splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.  But who was the second U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth? Don’t know? Don’t worry–you’ll find out in HuffPost Science’s debut “This Week In Science History” slideshow.

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College Dropout Jason Padgett Becomes Accidental Mathematical Genius After Brutal Mugging

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When Jason Padgett was attacked by muggers outside a karaoke club in Tacoma, Wash., a decade ago, he thought he was going to die.

The attackers, who he said were after his leather jacket, kicked him in the head repeatedly. Miraculously, he not only survived the attack, but developed a mysterious mathematical gift as a result of it, ABC News reports.

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Wrecking Crew Orchestra’s Tron-Inspired Dance Routine Lights Up The Internet (VIDEO)

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A new routine from the Japanese dance team Wrecking Crew Orchestra is lighting up YouTube today as users are mesmerized by the troop’s Tron-inspired moves, which they perform in the dark wearing specially-designed glow-suits.

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The technology gained mainstream attention when Team iLuminate, a group of glow-suit dancers from Los Angeles, finished third place in the sixth season of “America’s Got Talent.”

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Christopher Lee 90th Birthday: 90 Reasons The Horror Icon is Awesome

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On May 27, British film icon Christopher Lee turns 90 years old. In his long and storied career, he’s delivered countless fantastic performances in everything from medieval adventures to gothic scary stories. (You may know him as Saruman, Count Dooku, the Man with the Golden Gun or even Count Dracula.) And he has no plans to slow down, as indicated by recent roles in the Oscar-winning”Hugo” and this month’s “Dark Shadows” — not to mention an upcoming return to Middle Earth with this December’s “Hobbit.”

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Dual-focus contact lens prototypes ordered by Pentagon

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The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact lenses that give users a much wider field of vision.

The lenses are designed to be paired with compact head-up display (HUD) units – glasses that allow images to be projected onto their lenses.

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Murmurations – STUNNING!

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Here is something beautiful!

No one knows why they do it. Yet each fall, thousands of starlings dance in the twilight above England and Scotland. The birds gather in shape-shifting flocks called murmurations, having migrated in the millions from Russia and Scandinavia to escape winter’s frigid bite. Scientists aren’t sure how they do it, either. The starlings’ murmurations are manifestations of swarm intelligence, which in different contexts is practiced by schools of fish, swarms of bees and colonies of ants. As far as I am aware, even complex algorithmic models haven’t yet explained the starlings’ aerobatics, which rely on the tiny birds’ quicksilver reaction time of under 100 milliseconds to avoid aerial collisions-and predators-in the giant flock.

Despite their tour de force in the dusky sky, starlings have declined significantly in the UK in recent years, perhaps because of a decline in suitable nesting sites. The birds still roost in several of Britain’s rural pastures, however, settling down to sleep (and chatter) after their evening ballet.

Two young ladies were out for a late afternoon canoe ride and fortunately one of them remembered to bring her video camera. What they saw was a wonderful murmuration display, caught in the short video – URL is below. Watch the variation of color and intensity of the patterns that the birds make in proximity to one other. And take a look at the girl in the bow of the canoe watching the aerial display. Enjoy.

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John Hunter: World Peace Game

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Watch John Hunter discuss the World Peace Game and what adults can learn from children in approaching today’s most intractable problems.

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The Africa they never show you

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The Africa they never show you

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Africa

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Surprisingly modern and upscale isn’t it.   Consistent unflattering media portrayals would have you to believe something entirely different… e.g. Africa is still some kind of wild, savage and untamed jungle.   I wonder why that is?

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Audio slideshow: Human Planet

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From the icy Arctic to Africa’s dense jungles – and the mountain tops of Mongolia to the deep waters of the Pacific – the BBC series Human Planet has explored mankind’s incredible relationship with nature.

Accompanying the film crews was photographer Timothy Allen. His stunning still images captured unique glimpses of people living in the world’s most extreme environments. Take a look at some of them, and listen to him explain how he snapped the most arresting shots.

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Photo shoot that will take you beyond your wildest imagination

This is a 7 minute photo shoot.  Click on the first photo and the photo shoot will begin and will illustrate each photograph sequentially. You are in for a wonderful treat.

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Cell-Assisted Lipotransfer Breast Restoration – Suzanne Somers

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Discussion of the Underlying Science with Suzanne Somers’ Surgeon

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Dr. Joel Aronowitz is the surgeon who performed the groundbreaking Cell-Assisted Lipotransfer procedure on Suzanne Somers.

His new clinical trial, of which Suzanne Somers is the first enrollee, is based on promising earlier results of Kotaro Yoshimura, MD, and colleagues in Japan.

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