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View ArticleTED: Hillel Cooperman – Legos for Grownups
Via TED: Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks’ colorful, sometimes oddball...
View ArticleBlu: Big Bang Big Boom
A new 10-minute wall-painted animation from Blu about evolution: BIG BANG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end. If you’ve never...
View ArticleMeet The Doodlers of Google
We are often asked who works on the Google Doodles, what inspired them to be artists, what some of their favorite Doodles are and how Doodles have inspired thousands of submissions for the Doodle 4...
View ArticleLikin’ the Blip.fm
Blip.fm is a Twitter-like (using similar #tags and @users) social music site that lets you play DJ by ‘blipping’ songs through their search engine. Their search engine uses their own database for mp3...
View ArticleThe Google X-ray Doodle
I rather liked the animated gif that Google showed yesterday to mark the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays 115 years ago. So, if you missed it, here it is again:
View ArticleThe Lists of 2010
A collection of the customary Top 10 (and other) lists for 2010 (and the decade)
View ArticleA Random Vintage Ad
This post pulls a random vintage ad from the RSS feed of a vintage ad page on LiveJournal.
View ArticleGary Numan – Cars
"Cars" is a 1979 pop music song by UK artist Gary Numan, and was released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle. It reached the top of the charts in several countries, and today is...
View ArticleEteRNA
EteRNA is Flash-based folding game, like Fold It, that enlists users to fold RNA for optimized versions, which can then tested in the lab.
View ArticleLa Linea
La Linea ("The Line") is an Italian animated series created by the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli. The series consists of 90 episodes which are about 2–3 minutes long each which were produced...
View ArticleRobert Sapolsky: Human Monkey Business
Dr Sapolsky shares stories of his early years as a field biologist and his findings as a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. His Pritzer Lecture,...
View ArticleBBC: How TV Ruined Your Life
How TV Ruined Your Life is 6-part comedy series by the BBC in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television
View ArticleLogical Fallacies poster / website
Recognizing logical fallacies is not only an indispensable tool in the skeptic's toolset, but it is also very useful in day-to-day discussions/debates for recognizing faulty arguments
View ArticleWired Space Photo of the Day
Small impact craters usually have simple bowl shapes; however, when the target material has different layers of different strength, then more complicated crater shapes can emerge. The most common...
View ArticleA Year of Incredible Space Photos: Royal Observatory’s Winning Images
It’s time once again to “Ooh” and “Ahh” at some of the best images of the night sky taken by amateur astronomers around the world. The Royal Observatory Greenwich announced the winners of its Astronomy...
View ArticleThe ‘Underwater Waterfall’ Illusion at Mauritius Island
Located at the Southwestern tip of the island you will find a fascinating illusion. When viewed from above, a runoff of sand and silt deposits creates the impression of an ‘underwater waterfall’....
View ArticleDogs’ Play Growls Exaggerate Their Size
Dogs present themselves differently to other dogs depending on whether they’re protecting their food or goofing around
View ArticleFree mp3s: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Vivaldi's Four Seasons from John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players. A free download from the Free Music Archive. mp3s. vbr. ~192kbps
View ArticleUndersea Alien Lifeforms
It’s said that we know more about the surface of the moon than our own oceans, and the same may be true of the lifeforms that inhabit them. Cold seawater and unfathomable pressures create alien...
View ArticleSend your name to Mars (again)
Sign-up for putting your name on the Orion mission closes on October 31, 2014. The launch is scheduled for December 4.
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