NASA scientists were able to grow plants in Moon dirt.
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Growing Plants in Lunar Soil
POSTED WONDERFUL frycook
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Nyan BART
POSTED WONDERFUL Parker
I took this picture of a nyan cat sticker on the map of the San Francisco bay area public transit system, BART. The cat’s right where all four colored lines go over the Bay Bridge, so it takes advantage of the map’s implied rainbow. I love it.
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Silent videos of Japanese trains and their bathrooms
POSTED WONDERFUL goldensloth
This is a large collection of unnarrated video of different trains in Japan and of the toilet of the train being flushed. Sometime the trains switch tracks. The poster has also transcribed the announcements from the train loudspeaker. It’s a sort of visual review of trains, and their toilets’ flushing mechanism and cleanliness.There is poetry in its simplicity. (Linked again in case I did it wrong in the other field.)
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1950s National Physical Lab Film Explains First Atomic Clock
POSTED obadiahlemon
“A film produced by the NPL Film Unit in the 1950s explaining the principles behind the first accurate atomic clock, designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physical Laboratory in 1955.”
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Logn Awaited Lehman Bankruptcy Docs Go Online (filled with so much juicy awesomeness I may actually wet mysefl)
POSTED ritholtz
How awesome is this treasure trove of emails, documents, files et. al placed online by the NY Fed?
Some of the emails between Lehman execs are laughable — naive, silly, hubristic, childish.
But my favorite piece simply has to be the Morgan Stanley research report from June 30 2008 “Overweight Rating” on Lehman Brothers — “Bruised, Not Broken, Poised for Profitability“. 60 days later, Lehman Brothers filed what was thent he largest bankruptcy in the United States. This is (literally) what the category “Really Really Bad Call” was invented for.
Who was the author of this steaming piece of shit, and where is he today? Why, he is Patrick Pinschmidt, and he is a Senior Policy Advisor at U.S. Treasury Department! (You could not make up stuff this un-fucking-believable even if you tried).
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Blimp Lamp (Just Look at It!)
POSTED Jake von Slatt
I got an email this morning from Flaminio Bovino, a young Italian designer who though I might like this amazing blimp lamp he made. He was correct!
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Portal theme song on a Treadmill
POSTED WONDERFUL jennybean42
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From Lunch to Landfill
POSTED WONDERFUL maeryan
Track your trash from start to finish as it moves through the sprawling streets of LA
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How small is an atom? Fascinating TEDed animation
POSTED WONDERFUL Bibliog
My friend Dan made this kick ass animation for TEDed, explaining how small an atom actually is!
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How To Peel a Spiral Cut Orange
POSTED WONDERFUL ClintonD
Bald chick teaches us the best way to cut an orange. Everything, from the girl, to the way she talks, to the distorted Mexican hat dance music, is hysterically creepy.
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Higgs Boson news
POSTED dsut
Higgs has a little bump!
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Communist Werewolves in Russian Submarines
POSTED WONDERFUL chuckfive
My friends made a great short film about a werewolf aboard a Russian submarine. Everything is made from scratch including the costumes, sets, music and beards. It’s a lot of fun. And it’s up on Vimeo for the first time after doing the film festival circuit.
“Oh no! Comrade Captain Ovechkin! How could I have known you are werewolf!?
And now you are eating me alive!” – Dean
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The Confused Cat
POSTED WONDERFUL frycook
Not only was the U.S. Army testing psycho-chemical agents to change human behavior patterns, but they made a promotional video about testing it on cats. The chemical changes the cat’s personality and makes the cat afraid of mice.
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The periodic table table
POSTED zamieroskik
One of the co-founders of Wolfram Research (you know, wolfram alpha?) owns a home made, wooden periodic table table with compartments underneath every element label, with samples. He designed it and built it himself in his free time. He also has a ridiculously huge and kitschy element collection. This video is awesome, I hope you enjoy
Kirk
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Smallest reptile in the world?
POSTED Dr. Sideshow
New miniature chamaleon discovered in Madagascar!
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Tiny (16mm) Chameleon Discovered
POSTED lecti
The adult chameleon can sit atop a fingertip. Please take a look at figure 8 (http://www.plosone.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0031314&imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0031314.g008) !!!!
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Science Nation Army
POSTED Ben Good
Using real footage, sounds from a working science lab, and some computing wizardry the Inside Knowledge PLOS Blog team have reconstructed the White Stripes song Seven Nation Army from scratch.
The video was recorded in the The Blast lab at Imperial College, London, a percussionist’s dream. During experiments, which examine the effects of explosions on humans, metal plates are bashed upwards under pressure, weights clang against each other and wooden planks used for forcible adjustments to the machinery were transformed into a song
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The man who prints houses
POSTED WONDERFUL gaiapunk
This is a upcoming film about a driven pioneer in the 3d printing world. You can currently help support the film via Flattr.
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Polygon Heroes
POSTED WONDERFUL danielpresling
Awesome pieces of art created by a photographic retoucher based in New Zealand. The art works are pretty much the opposite of retouching and can be purchased as prints. The prints currently cover comic book characters, sports stars and tv/movie heroes with more being added every few weeks.
Here’s the flash – http://www.polygonheroes.com/#polygon-heroes-flash
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Entire backyard ‘Cowboy Town’ for sale on craigslist
POSTED WONDERFUL boontdustie
Topeka, Kansas craigslist – Man built entire ‘Cowboy Town’ in backyard and is now looking to sell it all for $20,000. Complete with bank, saloon and livery stable… Awesome pics included.
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Follow-up to “list of 135 long-established houses of prostitution”
POSTED WONDERFUL hankchapot
This is a follow-up to “the list of 135 long-established houses of prostitution” you published a few weeks ago. I have published the long-lost Atherton Report on police corruption in 1930s San Francisco.
1937 ATHERTON REPORT ON SFPD CORRUPTION REPUBLISHED SEVENTY YEARS AFTER DISAPPEARANCE. COUNTERPULSE TALK NEXT WEDNESDAY 2.22 – 1310 MISSION 7:30 pm
Oakland, Ca – 2.13.12
Announcing the online publication of the long-lost 1937 Atherton Report on police vice and graft in San Francisco. For the first time in over seventy years, the 1937 investigation into police corruption in San Francisco has been transcribed from old newspaper clippings and made available online, free. The original report was found to have mysteriously disappeared from the county clerk’s office in 1939.
You can download in multiple formats at Smashwords and numerous other ebook retailers,
See jpgs of the original S.F. Examiner supplement,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hankchapot/sets/72157627479776996/
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT – February 22, 7:30 p.m. Counterpulse. I am presenting my research on the 1930s police corruption scandals in San Francisco at Counterpulse in San Francisco on Wednesday the 22nd. All are welcome, free. CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at 9th) in San Francisco.
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Lasquite’s Saint Bernards 2011
POSTED WONDERFUL anelson
42 Saint Bernards (and a kid) out wandering around a temperate rainforest on Lasqueti Island, BC. It looks like an unused scene from a George Lucas movie.
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POSTED WONDERFUL frycook
Mickey, the firefighting cat of Minneapolis Cat videos have been around since the 1930s. Not much has changed. Cats in a hat are always a hit.
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14 years of US weather from radar images
POSTED WONDERFUL Steve_Saus
This animation covers over 14 years of United States weather. It is composed of 120,900 individual frames spaced 1 hour apart.
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Microgravity on the Intl. Space Station
POSTED James
Expedition 30 astronaut Don Pettit uses knitting needles and water droplets to demonstrate physics in space through ‘Science off the Sphere.’ This is part of the first video in a series for a partnership between NASA and the American Physical Society to share unique videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans from around the world.
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