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Combination CNC Machine/3D Printer

audreyobscura — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:53 +0000

Woah! Another incredibly awesome submission to the Make it REAL contest on Instructables.

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Nine year old sings Tom Lehrer’s elements song perfectly

elektra369369 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:52 +0000

Grey learned the Elements song by listening to it for a few weeks and practicing it incessantly. He had already memorized the entire periodic table of elements, including the atomic numbers, spellings and information on all the elements prior. Once he found out that a song existed, he was eager to learn it and be able to sing it quicker than the original.

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90 Days in the Hole

frycook — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:50 +0000

I wonder where these guys are now. They would be in their 60s.

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Growing Plants in Lunar Soil

frycook — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:49 +0000

NASA scientists were able to grow plants in Moon dirt.

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Secret early electronic music research by Philips in 1956

mrsoreto — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:49 +0000

Philips was and is an innovative company, it brought us the cassette, the compact disc and the DVD. But in 1956 it secretly researched the posibilities of contemporary electronic music. There seemed to be a great future in it.

They asked acoustic engineer Dick Raaijmakers if he could make a real popular modern tune with the electronic equipment, to hear what was technically possible. Raaijmakers career at Philips started at the bottom, on the assembly line. But he worked his way up to “acoustic engineer”.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6959/natlabelectronics02.jpg

In this new position he found himself surrounded by the most advanced experimental equipment, and more than ten professional recorders, on which he made his dubs and sound-effects. All handmade by cutting, layering and splicing tape. The results were impressive. Even now his first commercial song “Song of the Second Moon” from 1957 still sounds remarkably fresh.

Raaijmakers worked under the pseudonym “Kid Baltan”, his work-nickname reversed (NatLab Dick)

His first song “Song of the Second Moon” from 1957 on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsk6AcjQF24

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Guess You Can Only be a Lab Technician

frycook — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:36 +0000

Lab Technician Set

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Forever alone

frycook — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:35 +0000

Viking spacecraft wait for the first humans to visit Mars.

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The World’s First Invisible Ad

mrtruffle — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:30 +0000

Invisible Ads Can Only Be Seen When Wearing Polarised Sunglasses. Using hacked LCD screens, a terrace house in Sydney and some creative video Lynx were able to create a campaign that was not only unique but one brand.

This “hack” is relatively simple so it’ll be interesting to see how others use it in the future. We’ve already seen someone in the adult industry tweet about it being perfect to advertise their content. Well trust that industry to jump on this.

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NC tries to legislate against science, sea-level rise

SamSam — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:00:25 +0000

“North Carolina’s General Assembly has proposed a bill that would prevent scientists from using scientific models to accurately predict what might happen to sea levels if climate change continues unabated.”

Maybe if we don’t study it, it won’t happen?

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Animal congregations

jlksdaf90uasdf — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:00:18 +0000

Everyone is familiar with animal group names like a ‘pack of dogs’ or a ‘herd of cattle’. Some others are a little stranger but still well known; think of a ‘murder of crows’ or a ‘pride of lions’. After coming across an ‘unkindness of crows’ and got to wondering: just how pervasive such name are?

Extensively so, and a gentleman by the name of Dave Fellows have put together a wonderful list. Here is a small sampling of the highlights:

a prickle of porcupines
a bloat of hippos
a shrewdness of apes

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Help 6 sixth grade girls with summer space project on Kickstarter

Garymon — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:00:13 +0000

Their goal is to send a payload into near-space, take measurements as well as high resolution pictures and video and re-acquire the payload after coming back to earth.

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Racism, Not Genetics, Causes Race-Based Health Problems

DEP33 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:00:09 +0000

Anne Fausto-Sterling debunks the idea that race-based health issues are caused by genetics. New paradigms propose that chronic issue (hypertension, low birth rate, cancer patterns) are caused by the pressures of racism.

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Zarco Tequila “Welcome To Zarco”

nickceg — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:00:08 +0000

Three clone-like laboratory workers create a tristilled tequila for the modern age.

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Prometheus Trailer in paper!

carolinebobaroline — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:59:57 +0000

Forget the 3D craze, clearly 2D is the future of movies!

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Ingenious, lightning-fast computing machines

frycook — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:57:50 +0000

Ingenious, lightning-fast computing machines designed to compute artillery firing tables.

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Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys

showcasejase — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:57:49 +0000

Here’s a short video I made of my son’s sea monkeys, who didn’t last long as Rob Stark was right that winter is coming (to the southern hemisphere where I live anyway)! Enjoy!

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FULL ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM RENO NEVADA ON MAY 20TH, 2012.

gamer9921 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:57:45 +0000

FULL MAY 20TH, 2012 SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM RENO NEVADA!

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Don’t destroy scientific research.

Pythagorean Crank — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:57:41 +0000

Coming up on May 27th protestors are planning to vandalize research by Rothamsted Research scientists. The scientists have been appealing to the protest group to no avail and they are still planning the action. Supporters of science have been signing a petition and campaigning over Twitter with #dontdestroyresearch.

http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/rothamsted-appeal.html

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Spaceventure Struggles

jfrisby — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:30 +0000

Webcomic Kris Straub on the Space Quest series and the Two Guys from Andromeda’s struggling Kickstarter campaign:

“Of the Space Quest series though, the pinnacle was Space Quest IV. Look at all the nourishment it contained for a growing Kris! A plot making heavy use of time travel! Over-the-top meta humor I had never encountered before that! Roger Wilco knows where he is by looking up at the status bar, for Chrissakes. And the smell and taste interface itself was a goof on Sierra’s new UI. The design of the time pod was reminiscent of the Workbee from Star Trek! How I pored over those technical manuals as a child! (You can see the same side vents in some of Starslip’s scuttlepods.)

“Via a mutual friend, I actually got in touch with the Two Guys from Andromeda, Mark and Scott, a few days ago. We talked about their Kickstarter [www.tgakick.com] (which I just did some art for) and just riffed for an hour.

“All I could think was that 13-year-old Kris would have wanted to live to see this day. It’s too bad he died at age 20, after a long battle with youth.

“I was very excited to learn that the Two Guys were back in the saddle and I hope it works out for them. I hadn’t really thought about what an impact those games had on me until I heard about the potential for another one.”

http://starslip.com/2012/05/25/space-quest-memories/

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of didgeridos, water, and vacuum hoses

lakelady — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:24 +0000

from the website: Astronaut and chemist Dr. Don Pettit does physics demos that are out of this world. Currently on board the International Space Station, Dr. Pettit presents fantastic physics that can only be demonstrated in micro-gravity.

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Apollo 15 Astronauts Cancel a Stamp on the Moon

frycook — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:22 +0000

Apollo 15 Astronaut Scott Cancels a Stamp on the Moon

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Brain Pong

mccrum — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:20 +0000

I’m part of a hackerspace in Manhattan who has finally combined the classic game of Pong and EEG brainwaves to allow the movement of a player’s paddle via concentration. Then we decided to kick it up a notch and are in the process of building a version 6′ by 8′ tall.

We’ll be debuting it at the Figment festival here in town on Governor’s Island this summer as well as Maker Faire later on in the fall.

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Is there nothing Orson Welles can’t do perfectly?

frycook — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:05 +0000

In 1975, Orson Welles made a science promo film for NASA called “Who’s Out There?”

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Women Empowerment

swapniljain — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:04 +0000

IMOW launched its latest online exhibition, “MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe.” The rare and inspiring photographs, artwork, and stories in the exhibition depict women from all walks of life explaining how their role as a mother has affected them. While the importance of mothers figure remains the same throughout history and cultures, the experiences of mothers from one generation to the next has shifted drastically as cultures and societies have evolved.
The exhibition aims to turn inspiration into action, helping fuel a worldwide movement of advocates for mothers’ human rights and advances in maternal health. To do so, it has launched an online pledge that any visitor to the exhibition can sign in less than a minute. The pledge will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September 2012 to urge world leaders to make progress on the Millennium Development Goal of improved maternal health.

View Link [mama.imow.org]

200 years of cancer research

Bill — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:50:02 +0000

The New England Journal of Medicine offers up this free article detailing the past 200 years of cancer research.

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