30 September 2012

Klingon Style ~ K-Pop Takes Galactic Meaning;-)

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K-Pop goes intergalactic with Klingon Style ;-)
26 September 2012

Form 1 ~ MIT Alumco's Stereolith 3DP Launches!

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MIT alumco Formlabs Kickstarts their 3D printer Form 1 !
25 September 2012

Lovely Rio ~ Spotlights on Brazil's Blessed City!

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Nice to see the latest National Geographic piece on Brazil's Rio de Janeiro by Antonio Regalado with photos by David Alan Harvey... ...
23 September 2012

Moments of Science ~ Latest IgNobel Interludes!

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My esteemed Harvard colleague Daniel Rosenberg (of InDemoVeritas fame) and I performed two Moments of Science at the latest IgNobels . F...

Rafael Reif ~ MIT's 17th President Inaugurated!

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The past several days have seen series of events and parties all peaking on Friday afternoon with the formal inauguration of MIT's 17th...
19 September 2012

Global Trendscape ~ Gapminder 2012 Worldview!

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Mythbusting statistician Hans Rosling and Gapminder colleagues share their latest visualizations of global data! First, their interactive ...
18 September 2012

Sperm Cam ~ Imaging Elusive Spiral Swimmers!

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Nature's Helen Shen spotlights that Light-Sensing Chip Captures Elusive Sperm Swimming Pattern ... "A new three-dimensional imagin...

Baxter ~ Rethink Robotics Unveils Handy Helper...

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Rod Brooks's Rethink Robotics reveals Baxter ... "...a revolutionary new category of Robot [...] capable of applying common sens...
17 September 2012

Fire Whirl ~ Curtin Springs, Australia Tornado++

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DailyMail spots Aussie Fire Whirl !
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Welcome to the Anthropocene ~ Human Planet...

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Thanks to Dot Earthling Andrew Revkin for his piece in NYTimes on The ‘Anthropocene’ as Environmental Meme and/or Geological Epoch spotli...

100 ~ Dutch Baby to Centarian Speak Their Ages!

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24oranges spots this delighter !
16 September 2012

Bus+Train ~ JR's Dual-Mode Road+Rail Vehicle...

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Alexander Lew in Wired Autopia says It’s a Bus. It’s a Train. It’s Both!

Tethys & Rings ~ NASA's Cassini Spots Saturn!

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See Saturn's Bright Tethys and Ancient Rings via NASA's APOD!

Snollygosters ~ Forsyth @ TED on Political Speak

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Thanks to John Mills for spotting Mark Forsyth answering What’s a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak @ TEDxHousesofParliament....

Food Waste ~ Stuart @ TED on Global Scandal...

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Tristram Stuart at TED on The global food waste scandal ...
15 September 2012

Land Rush ~ International Aquisitions in Africa...

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Map Porn spots The 21st Century African Land Rush ...

Political Heatmap ~ US Red-vs-Blue 1920-2008!

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Timothy Hurst spots Animated Time-Lapse Map of Red-Blue America 1920-2008 at Ecopolitology ...
14 September 2012

Acoustic Levitation ~ Argonne's Sonic H2O Trap!

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Neatorama spots Argonne work on Acoustic Levitation which... "...uses two small speakers to generate sound waves at frequencies slig...

Quapter Formations ~ Flying UAV Art in Linz...

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Thanks to Miss Cellania for spotting formation-flying quadrocopters...

Hula Cam ~ Imaging Delights from Burning Man!

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Nice photonic joy via the Hula Cam at Burning Man!