February 2012
““here is a top ten list of why today was an awesome day at ixd12. #8:...”
– - ixda ‘12 diary, day 3 - Big River Labs  smiling at being referred to as a “real life anime rocket scientist chick”
Feb 4th
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January 2012
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Pink Space Porn! →
omg. NASA made a Flickr gallery mashup of pink space porn.
Jan 15th
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“…and that’s what the Internet is, too. It’s a place where we can be alone...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com (As Timoni said “a very reassuring article for anybody who works better alone, or uninterrupted.”)
Jan 15th
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Jan 12th
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Astronomer Merges Meteorite With Red Wine To Give... →
“Astronomer Ian Hutcheon combined his passions for space and wine making to create a Cabernet Sauvignon with a 4.5 billion-year-old vintage. How the hell did he do that? Hutcheon aged the red wine with a 3″ wide meteorite formed during the birth of the solar system, and which crashed into the Atacama Desert in northern Chile about 6,000 years ago. Hutcheon claims the meteorite gives his...
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/starting_ov... →
bipana: “In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to...
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Simulating the joint evolution of quasars,... →
Jan 3rd
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December 2011
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Dec 28th
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Comet "Harpoon" Being Test Fired in NASA Lab →
Dec 28th
CultureLab: Superflies bred to be the first... →
Art + science mashup
Dec 25th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Aesthetics & Astronomy | A unique combination of... →
A research project about how people view astronomy images.  “The research questions are designed to test such issues as: How much do variations in presentation of color, explanation, and scale affect comprehension of astronomical images? What are the differences between various populations (experts, novices, students) in terms of what they learn from the images? What misconceptions do...
Dec 10th
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The making of the 138 Years of Popular Science... →
Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 4th
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November 2011
“You are a mashup of what you let into your life.”
– - Paula Scher Steal Like an Artist: Austin Kleon on Combinatorial Creativity | Brain Pickings
Nov 30th
“A technology is always based on some phenomenon or truism of nature that can be...”
–  “The Nature Of Technology: What it is and how it evolves” by W. Brian Arthur  via  “Sometimes the stories are the science…” – Blog – BERG
Nov 30th
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Summing up Science Hack Day SF 2011 →
150 science hackers over 24 consecutive hours resulting in 26 unexpectedly awesome hacks. Take a browse!
Nov 23rd
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Nov 10th
“The Xbox game sensor made by PrimeSense is an incredibly disruptive sensor...”
– iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick ‘bots (Q & A) | Cutting Edge - CNET News Forget the porn industry making the first technological breakthroughs, the gaming industry is leading the way for robots, movies, etc.
Nov 6th
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WatchWatch
“Each object in this visualization is a pulsar. Pulsars are neutron stars — the ultra-dense remnants of collapsed stars. Neutron stars typically have a mass greater than our sun, but a radius of only about 10 miles!” Data used from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat Pulsar Visualization (by Laura Kogler)
Nov 2nd
October 2011
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Oct 27th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 15th
Two hidden planets discovered in old Hubble data →
“According to the researchers, this is the only alien multi-planet system of which astronomers have direct images.”  Pretty exciting.
Oct 11th
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“It may not be possible to ‘win the future,’ in President Obama’s words, but if...”
– Time-Capsules of Culture: 7 Essential Anthologies of Interviews | Brain Pickings
Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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Mail delivery from NASA →
Oct 8th
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Oct 5th
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September 2011
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Star formation rate vs. color in galaxy groups |... →
Using data generated by Galaxy Zoo to make new discoveries easier.
Sep 24th
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2 probable planets found by people like you →
Sep 23rd
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Sep 22nd
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The future: beyond 10,000 AD →
Sep 21st
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Sep 18th
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Kickstarter Project Aims to Take Geocaching Into... →
Sep 14th
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Sep 8th
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August 2011
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Hacking science: the intersection of web geeks and... →
“Science should be something that is disruptively accessible – empowering people from a variety of different backgrounds to explore, participate in, and build new ways of interacting with and contributing to science. Unfortunately, the relationship most adults have with scientific exploration is one of observation: usually watching government agencies and scientists explore on behalf of us,...
Aug 31st
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“A decade ago, blogging seemed more powerful, more revolutionary, more...”
– “Reclaim Blogging”: Why I’m giving up Twitter and Facebook. | gapingvoid
Aug 24th
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Aug 24th
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Aug 19th
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