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Revolving bookcase/room divider Margie Profet: a controversial scientist who went missing Mispronounced tech terms Russian soft-drinks explained: tastes like forests, rye bread, licorice, bubblegum Powdered human baby shipments seized The Open Laboratory: Best Science Writing on the Web 2012 A unicycler's guide to physics The New Yorker: A Technological Solution to Global Warming? The lament of the taxonomist An interesting way to explain radiation exposure and risk House built upside-down in Austria becomes tourist attraction Savage beatings for pro-democracy, anti-Putin protesters in Russia The honeybees are still dying AAirpass: American Airlines's all-you-can-eat lifetime first class ticket, and what became of it Beautifully mechanised miniature Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade Skillets in the shapes of each of the continental states of the USA Make's latest weekend project - two solar-powered BEAM bots IV drips for cramming high school students in China Super Moon was, in fact, pretty super (big photo gallery) Revolving bookcase/room divider
By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 12:55 pm The UnWaste Bookcase was jointly created by Ben Milbourne, Leyla Acaroglu and David Waterworth to act as a loft apartment room-divider that could be opened and spun completely around, depending on the needs of the residents. It's a very clever solution: A split-level open plan warehouse conversion in Melbourne's CBD needed a flexible solution to ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 07, 2012 12:41 pm Margie Profet did not have a Ph.D. In fact, she didn't even have a bachelor's degree in evolutionary biology, the field that most of her work revolved around. But she won a McArthur Genius grant and presented some really interesting theories on the body's defenses against cancer and poisonous substances that might turn out to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 07, 2012 12:17 pm Nate Smith explains the right pronuncuations for all sorts of nerd words like "GIF" and "meme" -- if not the correct ones. [Slacktory]
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 12:11 pm On Metafilter, Deathalicious rounds up links to some of the more interesting drinks mentioned in two videos by YouTube user 513755, explaining the various uniquely regional Russian and ex-Soviet soft-drinks. A few of the drinks mentioned, with tasting notes: Kvass - a strong sweet/sour beverage, with a definite flavor of rye bread. Tarkhun - very ...
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By Rob Beschizza on May 07, 2012 12:04 pm South Korean customs officials plan to increase customs inspections for powdered human baby flesh after 17,500 capsules were smuggled in less than a year. Powdered human baby flesh cures disease and boosts stamina. [BBC]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 07, 2012 11:18 am Last week, I mentioned The Open Laboratory—an annual anthology of the best science writing on the Internet. Now the 2012 edition is available for pre-order. This is a great place to start if you want to expand your science RSS feed, discover trustworthy sources of science news, and learn lots of interesting stuff in a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 07, 2012 11:13 am Watch this video and you'll better understand both some of the basics of Newtonian physics and how to ride a unicycle successfully. It's part of a new series of videos made by MIT and Khan Academy. The videos are meant to be for K-12 students, but let's be honest. After a few years, most of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 07, 2012 11:04 am The May 14, 2012, issue of The New Yorker is the "innovators" issue, with articles about the rise of drones in the United States, an artificial leaf that mimics the way plants convert solar energy, and a look at the promises and risks of geoengineering our way out of global warming. Plus, a beautiful cover ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 07, 2012 10:47 am The good news: A recent study of preserved museum specimens revealed that the Caribbean is home to 39 different species of skink, rather than the previously-accepted six. The bad news: Turns out that 16 of those species are already extinct. (Via Tim Heffernan)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 07, 2012 10:40 am Science blogger Lee Falin has a potentially useful analogy for putting radiation dose and risk into perspective—treat it like currency. Part of the problem with explaining radiation is that there are multiple units of measurement in play and they're all unfamiliar to the average Joe and Jane. The numbers get confusing quickly and when numbers ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2012 09:38 am REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichle People sit in front of a house built upside-down by Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozhanski, in the western Austrian village of Terfens May 5, 2012. The project is meant to serve as a new tourist attraction in the area, and is now open for public viewing.
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By Cory Doctorow on May 07, 2012 09:02 am Russian democracy: protest Putin stealing your election, get the living shit beaten out of you by thugs. Meet the new boss, (literally) the same as the old boss. Check out the related videos at the end. There's hundreds of these clips. 06.05.2012 Марш миллионов. Москва. Беспорядки. (via Reddit)
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By Hannah Nordhaus on May 07, 2012 08:24 am The eerie mystery of the vanishing honeybees has not been put to rest. In the last few weeks, three separate studies explored the effect of insecticides on honeybee and pollinator health. One paper linked neonicotinoids, a new class of systemic insecticides that have come into widespread use in recent years, to impaired honeybee navigation; a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 06, 2012 11:03 pm The LA Times's Ken Bensinger tells the fascinating, dirty story of American Airlines's AAirpass, a too-good-to-be-true lifetime first-class-ticket-to-anywhere-anytime pass that the airline debuted in 1981 at $250,000 (the last one offered, in the 2004 Neiman-Marcus Christmas Catalog, was priced at $3,000,000, but none sold). Purchasers could also buy companion tickets they could use to fly ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 06, 2012 08:46 pm Guygadbois sez, "Two years in the making, this one-of-a-kind mechanized miniature Main Street Electrical Parade runs nighttime shows from a display the size of a coffee table." This guy is the poster child for Happy Mutantism. What a wonderful video. I want to grow up to be him. Mechanizing a Miniature Main Street Electrical Parade
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By Cory Doctorow on May 06, 2012 06:10 pm FeLion Studios, an ironmonger with style, has made a set of 48 interlocking "Made in America" skillets, in the shape of each of the continental states. Buy them one at a time or get the whole set (which, admittedly, would probably be a little impractical to store in most kitchens -- it's 500lbs including a ...
Read in browser Make's latest weekend project - two solar-powered BEAM bots
By Mark Frauenfelder on May 06, 2012 06:08 pm [Video Link] Here's MAKE's latest weekend project - two solar-powered BEAM bots. BEAM stands for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics. From Wikipedia: "This is a term that refers to a style of robotics that primarily uses simple analogue circuits, such as comparators, instead of a microprocessor in order to produce an unusually simple design (in ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 06, 2012 04:30 pm Photos posted on China's Sina Weibo microblogging platform reportedly depict a Hubei province high school classroom where student are cramming for exams while hooked up to IV drips of amino acids. I hope the drips are equipped with a button for as-needed amphetamine boosts. From Ministry of Tofu: "(According to Mr. Xia, director of Office ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 06, 2012 02:19 pm REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon The full "super Moon", scientifically known as a "perigee moon", rises over Los Angeles, California May 5, 2012. A "super Moon" lit up Saturday's night sky in a once-a-year cosmic show, overshadowing a meteor shower from remnants of Halley's Comet, the U.S. space agency NASA said. The Moon looked especially big and ...
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