January 2012
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Pink Space Porn! →
omg. NASA made a Flickr gallery mashup of pink space porn.
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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.”)
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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...
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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...
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Simulating the joint evolution of quasars,... →
December 2011
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Comet "Harpoon" Being Test Fired in NASA Lab →
CultureLab: Superflies bred to be the first... →
Art + science mashup
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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...
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The making of the 138 Years of Popular Science... →
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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
“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
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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!
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“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.
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Watch“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)
October 2011
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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.
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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
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Mail delivery from NASA →
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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.
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2 probable planets found by people like you →
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The future: beyond 10,000 AD →
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Kickstarter Project Aims to Take Geocaching Into... →
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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,...
“A decade ago, blogging seemed more powerful, more revolutionary, more...”
– “Reclaim Blogging”: Why I’m giving up Twitter and Facebook. | gapingvoid
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