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“There is so much complex geometry in nature. This strange object here is a cross between a disco ball and an asteroid.”
Jason Payne is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. He is known as a leading influence in pushing digital design and fabrication by experimenting with the natural world.
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Sick Science! #147 - Bubble Snakes
Bubbles usually only come as individual spheres of soap and water. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can get a whole bunch of bubbles in one cluster… but it always seems random. Luckily, we’ve found a spectacular way to create entires snakes made of bubbles and teach you how to make them in all the colors of the rainbow!
Read the full experiment HERE:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/bubble-snakes
via Steve Spangler Science.
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The 27 sponsors of the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination for the award. The breadth of potential winners is truly inspiring as nominations were received from …
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Kenneth Rogoff in Project Syndicate: The world’s major central banks continue to express concern about inflationary spillover from their recession-fighting efforts. That is a mistake. Weighed against the political, social, and economic risks of continued slow growth after a once-in-a-century...
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Yesterday, Minneapolis had a convention pursuant to the process of electing a new Mayor. Also, sausages were made. I dare you to look: An Outsider’s View of the DFL Minneapolis Mayoral Convention ————- Photo Credit: Sri Dhanush via Compfight cc
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Richard Marshall interviews David Bakhurst in 3:AM Magazine: RM: What led you to develop a specific interest in Russian philosophy? DB: Well, I was drawn to the philosophical intensity of Russian culture, which comes through so strikingly in its literature,...
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Laura Miller in Salon: Often the debate about bias against women writers — now regularly revived by the annual VIDA survey and its dismaying figures on the gender breakdown of book reviewers and authors reviewed in prominent literary publications —...
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“Blue & Beautiful” - Neil Armstrong Tribute
A musical tribute to the legendary Neil Armstrong. mp3:
http://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-for-the-soul
Sources:
When We Left Earth
Neil Armstrong BBC Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtdcdxvNI1o
via Melody Sheep.
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Military Dolphin Finds 130 Year-Old Torpedo
The military is training all kinds of animals to help it do some of its most dangerous tasks— we’re talking dolphins, rats, and even bees! Anthony shows us how these amazing animals are making this world a safer place.
via DNews Channel.
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Writing about family life and parenthood is not simply the province of mothers: dads are carving out their own blogular niche. Single dads, stay-at-home dads, working dads, two-dad families — you can find every perspective on WordPress.com. As the US celebrates Father’s Day, here are some dad blogs we love: DorkDaddy.com What’s the point of […]
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Writing about family life and parenthood is not simply the province of mothers: dads are carving out their own blogular niche. Single dads, stay-at-home dads, working dads, two-dad families — you can find every perspective on WordPress.com. As the US celebrates Father’s Day, here are some dad blogs we love: DorkDaddy.com What’s the point of […]
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Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals - David Anderson
Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric medications — that work better and avoid side effects. How’s he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit flies angry. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.)
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And Texas moves into the lead for the most moronic government. Thursday, June 13th, Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, signed into law House Bill 308, known as the “Merry Christmas Bill”. The text of the bill reads Sec. 29.920. WINTER CELEBRATIONS. (a) A school district may educate students about the history of traditional winter celebrations, [...]
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Variation of Traits
In this video Paul Andersen explains how variation is created in a population over time. Variation in offspring is caused by genetic recombination, mutations and environmental effects. Parental DNA is recombined using the process of meiosis. Mutations can add novel genes to a population and the environment can shape the expression of genes. A K-12 teaching progression is also included.
via Bozeman Biology.
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Archaeo-Scope: Archaeology for Sale on the Streets of York
Welcome to Archaeo-Scope. In this series we take an archaeological perspective on modern culture; asking questions about current trends and observations from around the world.
Today, I get a chance to talk about a trade in archaeology which has bothered me for years.
Note: Regarding the Ancient Greek artefacts, the one in the video is from Italy. I was not able to photograph the artefacts from Greece as I was ejected from the premises
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Suddenly I saw them everywhere: news articles, tweets, and even art exhibits about edible insects. I also noticed that the American North East was getting excited about the emergence of the Brood II cicadas, and I wondered if the two were related. I thought that the mass influx of insects would have inspired the sudden [...]
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Whale Shark Highway
There’s some major underwater traffic along South Africa’s eastern coast: dozens of massive whale sharks — the world’s biggest fish — have been spotted powering their way along it each day. The Earth Touch crew dives in to investigate.
via Earth Touch.
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A few years back, a pair of House Finches built a nest under the eave of our roof. After the chicks hatched and flew away (which we missed) a second pair (or maybe the original) nested there again—clever, saving them the need to rebuild from scratch.
Over the next two years the nest was abandoned, though, until last year when a robin took up residence. That proved unfruitful; a few days after I took the picture in that link I saw the broken egg shells on the ground. I never did find out what
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From New Statesman: I first came to read James Salter 20 years ago, when I was in the US on a book tour. I was promoting a novel I’d written about a family who, from the outside, seem to have...
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From The Telegraph: From lying to your doctor about alcohol consumption, to going to parenting classes to avoid your children, Matt skewers the habits of our nation's fathers in Matt For Dads. A brilliant pocket-sized book from the Telegraph's award-winning...
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Hunger This is hunger. An animal all fangs and eyes. It cannot be distracted or deceived. It is not satisfied with one meal. It is not content with a lunch or dinner. Always threatens blood. Roars like a lion, squeezes...
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Sunday, and time for snippets from a multitude of talented authors. To reach the list at Weekend Writing Warriors click the logo above; for Snippet Sunday, click the one below. I’m afraid I won’t be around for comments this week; I’ll be barely out of surgery by the time you read this and probably won’t […]
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The Science of Money
Well, I suppose it’s really the science on money. Over the years, various national banks from around the world have adorned their currency with great scientists. Despite our intellectual stutters as a nation, even the United States has two scientists currently on legal tender: Benjamin Franklin ($100 bill, AKA “the Benji”) and Thomas Jefferson ($2 bill, rare but real).
Here we see Einstein on Isreali Lirot (1968), the Space Shuttle on a British £5 note, a
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thefrogman:
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Wiener [website]
[h/t: pleatedjeans]
Kiss, boom.
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US rivers in the contiguous 48 states, assembled in vector ink from public USGS data by Nelson Minar. It’s like elegant porcelain, made of digital water.
I’m amazed both that so much of the continent is covered by rivers, as well by the fact that there’s enormous regions with nothing. Fascinating. Click the link above to explore more.
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fuckyeahfluiddynamics:
Underwater explosions are, in general, much more dangerous than those in air. This video shows an underwater blast at 30,000 fps. During the initial blast, a hot sphere of gas expands outward in a shock wave. In air, some of the energy of this pressure wave would be dissipated by compressing the air. Since water is incompressible, however, the blast instead moves water aside as the bubble expands. Eventually, the bubble expands to the point where its pressure is less
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