Joachim de Posada found that most of the kids who resisted the urge to eat the marshmallow for 15 minutes while an adult left the room became successful in their later years while the same was not true for those kids who ended up eating the marshmallow right away.
In this video, various children are told to sit in a chair in a room with one marshmallow. The adult tells the child that they can either eat the marshmallow now or wait until they come back and as a reward, the child would receive another marshmallow for their patience. It’s funny to watch the kids squirm and wrestle with the temptation to eat the marshmallow. [via]
This was bound to happen. Two individuals, Dustin Curtis and Alaska Miller, have purchased the JetBlue unlimited flight pass and are intending to fly to JetBlue’s 43 JetBlue-served cities in 30 days (between September 8 and October 8).
They have researched the trip and believe that they will need about 83 flights to successfully reach all 43 cities. They have started a website called 30 Day Flight that will follow them on their journey. You can tune in beginning September 8 to see if they make it.
Ok, this is just as geeky as the last post about waves and scrollbars, but I swear it’s worth your time. Mr.doob (not me) has created this depth of field plane using 300 spheres that turn into a cube and then into a larger sphere. The animation might run a bit slow on some systems, so if you can’t get it working smoothly, you can just watch the video above.
Over at the389, you can play around with this javascript scrollbar experiment that turns a bunch of scrollbars into waves. It’s part of the Chrome Experiments website which also has a lot of awesome fun javascript goodies to play with. [via]
The Sonic Bed shown here was made in 2006 by Kaffe Matthews as an experiment in audio immersion through a semi-enclosed space that also serves as a bed. I really don’t care much about the experiment portion of this bed (which apparently includes speakers and subwoofers). I just really love the fact that it’s a bed that let’s you literally sleep inside it.
I might ask my dad to build me a new bed like this — without the sound system of course.
