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Skyscrapers Are Different Now
This video, like the fascinating NOVA documentary, from which it is "adapted":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec11/skyscrapers_09-06.html (see below), is certified truther-free.
Dogs and Robots Are Protecting New York from the Terrorists
Also useful: pagers that page you when they're near radiation, and a bomb suit, appropriately called _the EOD_. Interestingly, the bomb-sniffing dog in the above video doesn't bite or chew when he finds an explosive treat. For obvious reasons, he's...
KNOWLEDGE THAT WAS HIDDEN FROM MANKIND
bq. A BOOK THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. IT CONTAINS THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS OF A GENIUS WHO WAS CENTURIES AHEAD OF HIS TIME. HIS NAME WAS ARCHEMEDES {sp}. THE BOOK WAS LOST TO THE WORLD FOR MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND YEARS. PASSING...
PBS Explains Steampunk To Your Children So You Don't Have To
If only Richard Attenborough could have answered "this age-old question":http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=23278.0: bq. *"I see than many members of the forum have childrens they ''converted'' to steampunk. What make me wonder: What...
When Pythagoras Met Ear Hairs: the Science and Math of Music
I never want to have a science or math _anything_ explained to me again by anyone besides Vi Hart. Here's the "mathemusician" explaining how sound and music work -- what is up with noises? -- with science, math, and really cute cut-out animations. She...
Today Yesterday: The First Human-Powered Aircraft Capable of Controlled and Sustained Flight, the Gossamer Condor Takes to the Sky
When the British industrialist, Henry Kremer established his eponymous prize in 1959, he may have been surprised to hear that no one would manage to meet the precedent for earning it until 1977. To win, a human-powered aircraft had to be flown--in a...
The Government Is On an Undersea Quest to Reconstruct Nazi Ship Battles Off the Coast of North Carolina
*"We're studying the ship wrecks in the same way that you would study a battlefield on land, like Gettysburg, or the Custer battlefield site (the Battle at the Little Big Horn is just another name for it), or Normandy, where we're looking at the...
The Nation of Lincoln, the Poetry of Pokemon
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain keeps quoting the rousing work of a "great poet" in his speeches: "Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there’s so much on the line." The poet, of course, is Donna Summer...
The Japanese Tsunami Broke Off an Antarctic Iceberg Twice the Size of Manhattan
Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica as a result of waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March. Skip what FOX News "has to say about this":http://www...
Meet The 2011 Microsoft Excel Champion: A 15 Year Old Girl
This year at the 2011 Worldwide Competition for Microsoft Office, Rebecca Rickwood, a 15 year old from England, was able to beat out 228,000 other candidates to be crowned the Microsoft Excel world champion. The competition tasked competitors with...
The Bitcoin Beef Jerky Test
In our post-debt-ceiling-debate era, is this the definitive proof we need of the reality of new currencies? By the way, the slogan for "BitJerky":http://bitjerky.com/? "Eat it with your face." h3. Connections: * "How to Get Rich on Bitcoin, By...
It's Radioactive Dirty Work, But Somebody's Got To Do It
_The only dirty job Mike Rowe won't go near_ In Japan the recent economic downturn has produced a higher number of unemployed homeless who hang around the day laborer center. Through black markets, the clean up crew for the Fukushima disaster hire...