The United States Narcotic Farm that tried to grow recovery

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Oct 31 2008 Published in: Social News Tags: ,

Scientific American has an article about the United States Narcotic Farm that housed just about everyone busted for drugs in the U.S from 1935 to 1975, including Sonny Rollins, Peter Lorre and William S. Burroughs.

How to: 5 ways to spot a photoshop job

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 3 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , , ,

Scientific American has published an informative article, a how to guide listing 5 ways in which you can detect doctored images.

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Composite images made of pieces from different photographs can display subtle differences in the lighting conditions under which each person or object was originally photographed. Such discrepancies will often go unnoticed by the naked eye.