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      The 10 Most Popular Slide Shows of 2008

      Images capture subjects as vast as a nascent ocean and as tiny as carbon nanotubes

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      The 10 Most Popular Slide Shows of 2008

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      • 10. Illusions: The Eyes Have It
        Eye gaze is critically important to humans, as social primates. Maybe that's why illusions involving eyes are so compelling
        Seeing Double?...
      • 9. Beyond Red and Blue: 7 Ways to View the Presidential Election Map
        Images reveal what the country would look like if politics trumped geography
        American or Swiss? When Mark Newman, a physics professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, resized each county to reflect its population, a tangled cobweb emerged... © 2008 M. E. J. Newman
      • 8. Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
        A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen
        Hydrogen House: This house in East Amwell, N.J., looks like a typical suburban dwelling but is actually the first private home to be powered by a solar--hydrogen energy system... David Biello / © SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
      • 7. 20 BioScapes Contest Photos--Life Viewed through the Microscope
        Winners and other images from the 2008 BioScapes Photo Competition use light microscopes to portray extraordinary images of biological specimens
        1st Place -- Mr... 2008 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition ®
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      • 6. 2008 Gadget Guide: 33 Technology Innovations
        Holiday gift list: 13 high-tech toys, plus 20 green gadgets and socially responsible inventions
        Flight Motion Simulators, Inc.'s Dreamflyer: The Dreamflyer is a three-foot (0.9-meter) by six-foot (1.8-meter) virtual-reality flight motion simulator with a black powder-coated aluminum frame and sports seat that faces up to three video monitors portraying images of flight... Image courtesy of Flight Motion Simulators, Inc.
      • 5. The Neuroscience of Illusion
        How tricking the eye reveals the inner workings of the brain
        Illusory Motion: Some stationary patterns generate the illusory perception of motion...
      • 4. Birth of an Ocean: The Evolution of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
        Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one few scientists have ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe... Eitan Haddok
      • 3. Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering Throughout History
        Photography lost its innocence not long after it was born. As early as the 1860s photos were already being manipulated--only a few decades after Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photograph in 1826...
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      • 2. Art as Visual Research: 12 Examples of Kinetic Illusions in Op Art
        Art and neuroscience combine in creating fascinating examples of illusory motion
        The Enigma Illusion: Op artist Isia Leviant unknowingly combined the MacKay Rays and the BBC wallboard illusion in the now classic Enigma illusion... The image is courtesy of Jorge Otero-Millan
      • 1. 20 Winning Pictures: It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World
        Have a look at the images that won this year's Nikon Small World contest
        1st Place -- Michael Stringer: Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, UK... Courtesy of Nikon Small World Contest
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