Orbit's Journal

Orbit's Journal

My personal take on topics about science, crypto and fun. For Inquiries: https://orbithunter.blogspot.com/


10 Optical Illusions that will Amaze you!

15 Dec 2020 1 minute read 1 comment orbithunter

Here is the list of optical illusions that will amaze you! Hope you like it. (Click on the pictures to see the move) The Spinning Dancer Is she turning clockwise or counterclockwise? Stare at her long enough and you will notice that she can be perce...

Can You Solve This Puzzle?

23 Jul 2020 1 minute read 3 comments orbithunter

It's time for us to try solving the logic problem. You can take a look at the illustration below to help you solve the problem. Here is the scenario:  Four criminals are caught and are to be punished. The judge allows them to be freed if they can so...

The Reason Why Greenland is Larger than Australia.

13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 4 comments orbithunter

The photo below is a photo of a world map. If you look closer, you will notice that I have marked both Greenland and Australia. In particular, I would like you to take note of which landmass is larger. "Mercator projection (82°S and 82°N.)" by Strebe...

Wanna Help Fight COVID-19 AND Earn Crypto! [A Curecoin Folding Pool Tutorial]

6 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments orbithunter

Update (02/19/23) - This article is outdated because Curecoin doesn't use Cryptobullions anymore. Check out a more updated guide here. This blog post will discuss how can you help fight COVID-19 by running Folding@home on your computer and at the sam...

Foldit: A Game that Helps Predict How Proteins Fold

26 Mar 2020 2 minute read 2 comments orbithunter

What is Foldit? Foldit is a citizen science computer game that lets players predict and design the structure of proteins. This is also commonly known as Protein Folding. Knowing the structure of a protein, or the way the protein will fold is import...

Stall Catchers: A Game that Speeds Up Alzheimer's Research

1 Mar 2020 2 minute read 2 comments orbithunter

Thumbnail: Logo by Stall Catchers / CC BY-SA 4.0 Some of you might have wanted to help in the progress of scientific research. However, you either need to be a scientist or donate your money for science. Both of these ways are a bit of a long shot fo...

Three Crowdsourcing Projects You Can Try!

23 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments orbithunter

The goal of this post is to familiarize you with different crowdsourcing projects I have participated. Crowdsourcing projects aims to gather information or input from the crowd to achieve a certain task. There are a lot of crowdsourcing projects out...