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Flood
It turns out that DDoS attacks are kind of pretty!
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Prince Rupert's Drop
Destin from Smarter Every Day stopped by Orbix Hot Glass in Fort Payne, Alabama to explore a fascinating phenomenon called a Prince Rupert’s Drop. (Bubba note: We made these in class two weeks ago! They're pretty awesome.)
By: Bubba | Apr 13th, 2013 (7:46 PM) | Thanks: drinkzima
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Show Off
Look at this guy. Look at him.
By: Bubba | Mar 19th, 2013 (2:49 PM) | Thanks: rabbiwanna
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Associative Musical Visual Intelligence
Can you hear shapes? Are you good at visual learning? Take our short online music test and find out your musical visual intelligence ability.
By: Bubba | Mar 14th, 2013 (10:56 PM) | Thanks: HellsSnowMan
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First Person Vader
If ol' Darth wore a GoPro...
By: SpunOne | Feb 27th, 2013 (9:49 PM)
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Mindcraft
Is it what you know or what you don't know that matters? Just as long as you know, you know?
How the Jeopardy Master mastered Jeopardy.
By: Bubba | Dec 6th, 2012 (12:45 PM) | Thanks: mejmo06
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On The Throne
For all you George R. R. Martin fans out there.
By: Bubba | Nov 26th, 2012 (11:49 AM) | Thanks: AndYourDog2
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Smells Like They're on to Something
In a unique collaboration between the University's Veterinary School and MRC's Regenerative Medicine Centre, scientists used a unique type of cell to regenerate the damaged part of the dogs' spines. The researchers are cautiously optimistic that the work could have a future role in the treatment of human patients with similar injuries if used alongside other treatments.
By: Bubba | Nov 21st, 2012 (5:16 PM) | Thanks: pongobongo
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Odds and Ends
Drunk Nate Silver placing a wreath next to Schrodinger's cat box.
By: Bubba | Nov 8th, 2012 (1:51 PM)
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Hexaflexagons
Math geek Vi Hart explains how to use extra scraps of notebook paper to fill time during boring lectures and mess with your mind at the same time.
Part Two posted today.
By: Bubba | Oct 6th, 2012 (4:22 PM) | Thanks: jai dubs
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HoneyMap
They HoneyNet Project has developed a real time map of security attacks against their monitored honeypot network. More info at The Atlantic.
By: effeminateSWANK | Sep 28th, 2012 (5:14 PM) | Thanks: Tmoney
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This Craft of Verse
These are the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968. The recordings, only lately discovered in the Harvard University Archives, uniquely capture the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of our age. Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, the lost lectures return to us now in Borges’ own voice.
By: Bubba | Sep 25th, 2012 (1:54 PM) | Thanks: rabbiwanna
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I'll Be In My 1/100th Scale Bunk
Serenity! Legos! Everything!
By: effeminateSWANK | Sep 21st, 2012 (4:10 PM) | Thanks: DeportFrostbaks
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Femto Photography
A TED talk about a camera developed at MIT that can record at 1 trillion frames per second. Yes, that's "trillion" with a "t". It's capable of filming light as it travels.
By: Bubba | Aug 30th, 2012 (3:27 PM) | Thanks: xxJoshiexx
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DNAta
A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
By: Bubba | Aug 18th, 2012 (12:07 AM)
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7 Minutes of Terror
A detailed look at the crazy stuff happening over/on Mars today.
By: Bubba | Aug 5th, 2012 (8:31 AM) | Thanks: sixf00t4
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Next, It'll Dance, Dance, Dance
Google techs have built a massive artificial brain with access to Youtube. And, er, it likes cats.
By: Bubba | Jul 2nd, 2012 (10:08 PM) | Thanks: Stonedfish
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Boxing Lessons
Eric Kelly of the Church Street Boxing Gym has a unique approach to training his clients–or as he calls them, “miscreants.” To help them perfect their boxing technique, Eric subjects them to a barrage of verbal abuse, insults, and public degradation. (Language NSFW.)
By: Bubba | May 29th, 2012 (11:31 PM) | Thanks: masterblaster
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When Muon I Collide
Detailed, entertaining explanation of what's going on at the LHC. Complete with real-time illustrations!
By: Bubba | May 25th, 2012 (3:24 PM) | Thanks: guruthos
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A Universe From Nothing
"It turns out that in a flat universe the total energy of the universe is precisely zero. Cause gravity can have negative energy. So the negative energy of gravity balances out the positive energy of matter. What's so beautiful about a universe with total energy zero?
Well, only such a universe can begin from nothing." (1 hour!)
By: Bubba | Apr 9th, 2012 (1:12 AM) | Thanks: I U Lusco Field
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Con BRIO
A detailed explanation and demonstration of an extremely interesting reaction that is a rare phenomenon in chemistry - an oscillating reaction.
By: Bubba | Mar 6th, 2012 (6:35 PM)
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Hive Bond
Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame.
By: Bubba | Mar 4th, 2012 (2:06 PM) | Thanks: DreamCars
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Size Matters
Pretty cool little tool covering relative size and distances in the observable universe. We've seen things like this before, but this one appears to be new/updated.
By: Bubba | Feb 9th, 2012 (4:50 PM) | Thanks: Pilgrymm
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Boxie
Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people within it.
And it's ADORABLE.
By: Bubba | Jan 18th, 2012 (6:43 PM) | Thanks: Hoss
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Come to the Bark Side
A teaser for Volkswagen's new Superbowl commercial.
By: Bubba | Jan 18th, 2012 (6:21 PM)
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Cleaning the Internet With SOPA
Unless you've been under a rock the last few months, you've heard of SOPA. Well, here are the details about it from Wikipedia. In less than 12 hours, this is all you'll be able to see on Wikipedia, as they "Go Dark" in an effort to prevent the passage of SOPA.
Joining in the protest: Mozilla, WordPress, Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, Boing Boing, Minecraft, the entire Cheezeburger Network (!!!), and lots more.
Update: The Oatmeal is blacked out, but tries to explain what the problem with SOPA/PIPA is (in a potentially NSFW way, but hey, it's The Oatmeal, so what do you expect?).
By: Bubba | Jan 17th, 2012 (12:26 PM)
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The Claaaaawwwwww
After a very long weekend of installation, the mammoth Santa Claw is ready to go at Gizmodo Gallery. Beginning immediately, you can play the mother of all claw games online and win prizes for yourself and visitors to the gallery.
By: Bubba | Dec 5th, 2011 (4:03 PM)
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NeverWet
A new product called NeverWet, originally developed to help steel resist corrosion, has been found to work on a variety of surfaces. Think teflon on speed. Check out the embedded video...
By: Bubba | Nov 24th, 2011 (2:22 PM) | Thanks: Cjack Burnsburg
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Nickelblock
Ever wanted to block all mentions of Nickelback on the internet? Aux.tv is here to help with the Nickelblock plugin for Firefox and Chrome. "Once installed, NICKELBLOCK will eliminate all mention of Alberta’s finest swamp heshers from your web browser."
By: effeminateSWANK | Nov 21st, 2011 (5:14 PM)
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Futurecasting
Microsoft's concept of how 2019 will look. We've seen the old clips from the 60s and 70s and saw how many of those predictions came true. We'll check back in 8 years and see how well they did!
