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Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go Digi-Comp 1 emulator toy for learning the foundations of computers Infrared portraits of scientists and staff in Antarctica How To: Close up your turkey Demspey vs Robot: Who would win? "I built spy satellites for a living" Elektriktus: "Electronic Mind Waves" (1976) Who needs SOPA when you have GoDaddy's shutdown policy? Dead Sea Salt Formations Lieberman wants Taliban blocked on Twitter Maggie talking about animal sex on the Sex Is Fun podcast How long have we known that dinosaurs were birds? Report: Kindle produces nearly no electrical interference. FAA: "LALALALALA" Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 27, 2011 04:23 am Welcome to the Gweek podcast, episode 32! Gweek is where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. In this episode I am joined by Boing Boing's technology and coding maestro, Dean Putney. Our guest host for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 27, 2011 04:10 am Avi sez, "The Digi-Comp 1 toy kit was a cool hands-on way to learn the basics of computing. The Digi-Comp 1 emulator is an interim substitute for those who can't get their hands on one." In essence the Digi-Comp I contains three mechanical flip-flops and provides an ability to connect them together in a programmable ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 26, 2011 10:05 pm Henry Kaiser—filmmaker, musician, Antarctic research diver and BoingBoing guest blogger—took a series of infrared portraits of scientists and staff at the McMurdo Research Station. I really like the way these infrared photos feel like they capture the cold environment better than a normal photo would. Another bonus: I keep having to remind myself that, no, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 26, 2011 09:31 pm Some holiday advice from the journal Veterinary Record. What's the best method to use for sewing up a turkey after you've stuffed it? Turns out, surgical staples might be your best option. (Actually, this is a trick question: The correct choice is to cook the stuffing separately and break the bird down so you can properly ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 26, 2011 07:53 pm In 1934, famed boxer Jack Dempsey, "The Manassa Mauler," claimed he could beat any robotic pugilist. Now that would be some sweet science! From Paleofuture: In the April, 1934, issue of Modern Mechanix and Inventions the "mechanical robot" goes toe-to-toe with boxing legend Jack Dempsey. In the article Dempsey relays a conversation he had with ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 26, 2011 07:32 pm KH-9 Hexagon was a series of Cold War spy satellites that the United States launched in the 1970s and 1980s. Declassified in September, the program, known as "Big Bird," fed as many as 1,000 people and their families in Danbury, Connecticut. The Associated Press recently sat with a group of retired Perkin-Elmers Corp employees who ...
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By David Pescovitz on Dec 26, 2011 07:23 pm From 1976, "Electronic Mind Waves" is the single LP from the awesomely-named Elektriktus. The name was a pseudonym for Italian avant-garde and free jazz composer Andrea Centazzo. The album has just been reissued on vinyl by Spanish label Wah Wah Records. From Wah Wah: Originally released on the PDU label, the LP Electronic Mind Waves ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 26, 2011 07:21 pm David Rusenko, co-founder of website hosting service Weebly.com, describes how GoDaddy wiped his domain name records, only restoring them after a phone call. All it took was a single complaint against a single user. "They had received a complaint about the content of a site, and that they were removing the DNS entries for weebly.com ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 26, 2011 05:11 pm The Dead Sea's salinity of 33.7 percent makes it 8.6 times saltier than the ocean. Bordering Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, it is 423m below sea level, making it the lowest place on land on Earth. A tourist hotspot for millennia, more than 1m visitors a year visit on the Israeli & Palestinian side ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 26, 2011 02:59 pm Joe Lieberman wants Islamist extremist accounts banned on Twitter. Aides for Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said the move was part of a wider attempt to eliminate violent Islamist extremist propaganda from the internet ... Twitter is reported to be rejecting the move after pointing out that unlike al-Qaeda, the Taliban ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 26, 2011 02:53 pm I recorded a special guest appearance on Sex Is Fun, a podcast about sex education, sexual behavior, and dirty jokes. Naturally, I'm there to talk about science. Specifically, the science of animals having sex with other animals. Why is one species of Australian beetles having sex with beer bottles? How do a group of professional ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 26, 2011 02:39 pm I spent most of my childhood with books about dinosaurs that played up the ancient beasties as overgrown lizards. The connection between dinosaurs and birds, while kind of flipping obvious once somebody points it out, was not much discussed among laypeople until I was in my teens. (That would be the 1990s, FYI.) But, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Dec 26, 2011 02:20 pm Nick Bilton put the FAA's claims regarding Kindles and airline avionics to the test. The result? They emit less EM interference than planes are required by law to withstand. The F.A.A. requires that before a plane can be approved as safe, it must be able to withstand up to 100 volts per meter of electrical ...
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