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Periodic Tables of Star Wars
Hey, if you're going to organize the characters from Star Wars into some type of diagram, it might as well be a geeky type of diagram right? The fine folks at etckt have put together two tables, one...
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Families Photographed with their Weekly Shopping
Every wonder what grocery shopping looks like around the world? A study was done surveying 30 families around the world looking at the types of food they purchase and how much they pay per week for...
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How Fast Could You Travel Across the U.S. in the 1800s?
A flight from New York to San Francisco can be an all day affair including having to deal with security and checking in at the airport. Consider, however, that same trip in 1800. How long would it take...
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Earthquake Astrophotography Light Painting
What happens when you combine a long-exposure photograph of Jupiter and the Galilean moons with a 5.8 magnitude earthquake? A beautiful image, that's what: Photographer Andrew Dare was set up near...
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American Dialect Differences: A Fascinating Time Suck
My wife and I seriously spent two evenings going through all 122 dialect maps from Joshua Katz' US Dialect Survey (You should too). Since I grew up in Michigan and then moved to Connecticut later in...
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Visualizing Bach, Beethoven, & Stravinsky
Whilst cruising through posts over at allhomosapienswelcome, I came across this impressive visualization of J.S. Bach's solo violin piece: prelude of Sonata in E Major. I enjoy being able to see the...
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World's Longest Book Domino Chain
What do you get when you add: 2,131 books + 27 volunteers + 112 slices of pizza? A new world record for the longest book domino chain! The Seattle Public Library pulled this stunt to promote it's...
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All Citizens Must Everywhere, Every Day, Constantly Fiddle with Their Cell...
at Make Use Of via Dave H., on Facebook Related Postsxkcd: Cell Phones & CancerChanging concepts of schoolMonitoring Clicks vs. Sharing JoyGoogle Before You TweetWolfram|Alpha Does Crazy Analysis...
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Honest Disney Movie Titles
Imagine someone put the Disney folks under a spell that forced the movie marketers to use "honest" titles for their films. You'd probably get the somewhat less than magical titles below: See more...
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See-through Brains
"Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can be labelled with molecular markers and imaged using a light microscope. The technique, called CLARITY, enabled its...
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Supercell near Booker, Texas [gif]
by Head Like an Orange Related PostsWell, Hello There PenguinSlow Motion Rattling- Western Diamondback RattlesnakeWigglegrams: 3D gifsDrew Sheppard: Turning Baseball GIFs into Real American Monies...
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Motion Amplification Reveals Invisible Motion
From the Bits blog at the NYTimes: "The amplification process is called Eulerian Video Magnification, and is the brainchild of a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s...
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Holy Grail of Baseball Cards: The T-206 Honus Wagner
"Starting from January 1909, the [American Tabacco Company] sought authorization from baseball players for inclusion in the T206 [baseball card] series, which would feature 524 major league players,...
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Thickness of Ice Sheets
by xkcd Related PostsArctic Sea Ice Drops below 2007 Recordxkcd: Lakes and OceansIt’s Not Global Warming, It’s Really Just Ice Getting Wimpier. I swear.The Great Biotic DebateGood Morning Chicago //...
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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
The Alaska Dispatch, in a story about the population rebound of bowhead whales noted (emphasis mine): "Bowheads seem to be recovering from the harvest of Yankee commercial whaling from 1848 to 1915,...
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Beautiful Maps: American Rivers in the Contiguous 48
Nelson Minar created this amazing map of the rivers in the contiguous 48 states. He notes on Flickr: "I'm drawing all of the flowlines. This includes lots of seasonal creekbeds, arroyos, etc. That's...
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The Beastles: Beastie Boys + The Beatles
Beastie Boys mashed together with The Beatles? Might sound odd, but djBC's skillful mashups are well worth a listen. Check out a video of "Ill Submarine" below: You can visit The Beastles online home,...
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Classical sculptures dressed as hipsters
As the article notes, having them dressed makes them look contemporary. I'm even pretty sure I saw that dude with the hog's head walking down my block last week... by photographer Léo Caillard and...
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The Periodic Table of the Muppets
Artist Mike Boon has made perhaps the awesomest twist on the periodic table I've seen to date. (and as a teacher of science, I've seen a bunch). Each square is a different character, and includes the...
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Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap
[UPDATE: My related post widget tells me that I posted this same video in March of 2012. My quick search of past posts failed me. Oh well. It's worth a repost- especially since the old post has funky...
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