I ran across two instances of octagonal (8 sides) houses in the last week in Barcelona and San Francisco. Turns out 8 sided structures are fairly common. While there are...
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From Wires Magazine: Ten years ago on March 1, the European Space Agency launched an 8-ton satellite called Envisat that would deliver back to Earth some of the most...
That is an awesome video. What kind of Rube Goldberg machine would you build? “A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine that creates a chain reaction, a really...
This is a cool little time-lapse video shot in Burma. A tilt-shift film, shot by Joerg Daiber in Rangoon (Yangon), Kalaw, Inle Lake, Mandalay and Bagan in Burma...
Flooding in New South Wales Australia, near the town of Waga Waga has forced thousands of people from their homes. But the floods have also forced many times more...
The first I heard of this was on Robert Krulwich posted Minute Physics to his blog last week. That’s why pink is an invention. It’s not a name we give to...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. What he’s talking about in this video is the fact that all the...
App Name: The Monster at The End of This Book Device: iPad and iPhone Author: Sesame Street / Developer: Calloway Digital Arts Interactive: Yes Animated: Sort of...
Check out this amazing gallery of animal portraits from Italian photographer Stefano Unterthiner. The post on the blog Colt+Rane doesn’t have any other info on the...
On a road trip recently my buddy and I were listening to the TED podcast and heard the extremely brief talk by Terry Moore on the right and wrong way to tie your shoes.