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This Is Not a Flower
This isn’t a romantic pink rose, nor any other kind of flower you can name. In fact, it’s a wonderfully delicate crystalline bloom of germanium sulphide with petals that are just 20 nanometers thick. It was created by a team of researchers who are trying to make incredibly high surface area crystals for use in … Continued
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Using Your iPhone To Detect Ear Infections Also Keeps the Doctor Away
Forget that daily apple. Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have developed the Remotoscope, an accessory that turns the iPhone into an ear-inspecting otoscope so doctors can diagnose and treat kids remotely in the event of an ear infection. It’s a simple clip-on attachment that puts a scope over the iPhone’s camera lens and … Continued
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Ridley Scott drops hints for the Prometheus and Blade Runner sequels!
Check out a trio of sneak peeks for tonight’s Fringe. Guillermo del Toro releases a Pacific Rim propaganda poster. Bryan Fuller’s gritty Munsters reboot meets an ignominious fate. Plus tons of hints for what lies ahead on Revolution and Arrow! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from Pacific Rim. Pacific Rim Here’s an … Continued
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Brand-new panorama images reveal the full majesty of the Martian horizon for the first time
Check out this breathtaking new panoramic image that was stitched together by Stuart Atkinson from photos received by NASA just yesterday. The images were taken by the Curiosity rover which is currently romping around the Gale Crater on Mars. The misty hills in the background are unlike anything we’ve ever seen before — placing us … Continued
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Faster-Than-Light Travel May Be Possible
According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, light traveling in a vacuum is the universal speed limit. But scientists love to try and break rules—and now a tweaked version of Einstein’s equations suggests that faster-than-light travel might just be possible. Out with the old… Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity was first published way back … Continued
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iPad Mini To Be Announced October 23rd, Says All Things D
AllThingsD is reporting that “people familiar with Apple’s plans” say that the iPad Mini will be unveiled at an event to be held on October 23rd. It’s tough to say how accurate the rumor is: it’s a Tuesday, not a Wednesday, so it would break with tradition, but it could be timed to steal the … Continued
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How Viral Images Spread on Facebook, Visualized
Like counts are interesting, but they don’t tell you how a link spreads on Facebook. That’s why Stamen Design has explored how viral photos spread across the network—and the visualization they’ve created is damn pretty. The company analyzed the spread of three of the most shared images on Facebook, all of which were photos published … Continued
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Guitar Skillet Lets You Cook Steak Like a Rockstar
Kitchenware might be practical, but it isn’t nearly enough fun. Fortunately, cookware company Lodge has decided to change that by creating a seasoned guitar-shaped cast iron skillet at its Tennessee foundry. Lodge refers to it as a mini skillet, and it isn’t wrong: at a mere 11 inches, end-to-end, you’ll struggle to fit a family’s … Continued
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How to Stop Apple From Tracking You Again in iOS 6
Business Insider is reporting that Apple’s launch of iOS 6 brings with it not just Passbook and bad maps, but a new means of tracking user activity, too. That’s right; your iPhone tracks your every activity by default. Here’s how to stop it. The report suggests that Apple has started tracking users again so advertisers … Continued
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Best Buy Will Match Amazon’s Prices This Holiday Season
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Best Buy plans to match the price of internet retailers like Amazon over the holidays this year, as well as offering free home delivery when stores are out of stock. According to a good ol’ “person familiar with the matter”, the electronics chain is assuming the strategy over … Continued
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How Do You Start an Email?
I don’t really put much thought into e-mails. Some notes are quickly sent without any salutation, a few are carefully crafted but most of my e-mails just start with Hey or a person’s name. Am I being judged for my e-mail salutation? The Morning News has a rather hilarious post about e-mail salutations and what … Continued
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I Can’t Believe These Photos Are Not Fakes
Believe it or not, these photos are real, not fakes. That’s what the authors say. Excluding cropping or tone adjustments, none of these images have been Photoshopped (as in composed from many images or morphed or painted over). I look at them and I can believe them. Hmmmm. I mean. Kind of. What do you … Continued
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The Stoner Channel: Hyper Lapse Trains, Gorillaz In Glastonbury, and Where Not to Hide Your Weed
Very Little Stars What happens when you extend the typically small distances covered by time lapse video techniques to the macro scale? Well, this for a start. [It’s OK to Be Smart] Three Pyschopaths Read Honey Boo Boo If Christopher Walken can read a Chinese takeout menu and make it sound awesome, he must be … Continued
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Putting Duct Tape Over a Person’s Mouth Does Absolutely Nothing
Here’s a video that’ll shatter many a Hollywood movies: putting duct tape over somebody’s mouth doesn’t stop them from screaming, it doesn’t make them stop talking and it definitely doesn’t keep them quiet. In fact, putting duct tape over somebody’s mouth does… absolutely nothing. Kevin Nugent on YouTube was sick of all the movies that … Continued
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Chrome Panic Button Is the One Chrome Extension You Definitely Need at Work
If you read a bunch of websites that do not relate to your work whatsoever while you’re at work, well, here’s the one chrome extension worth downloading: Panic Button. It quickly hides all of your open tabs in Chrome and lets you open them up all later. Like, when your boss isn’t around. You can … Continued
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What does George R.R. Martin think of the new Beauty and the Beast show?
Long before George R.R. Martin wrote the groundbreaking novel A Game of Thrones, he was the showrunner on the classic 1980s-1990s Beauty and the Beast TV show, with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton. And now, The CW is launching a brand new Beauty, which is ostensibly based on the version Martin helped to craft. We … Continued
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This Grand Canyon Time Lapse Is So Jaw Dropping That You Don’t Even Need to See It in Real Life
The Grand Canyon is one of those natural wonders you have to see in real life to truly appreciate. It’s jaw droppingly gorgeous and looks like another world. Well, that’s what I thought until I saw this time lapse of the Grand Canyon. Using over 80,000 photos, the video is better than an ordinary visit … Continued
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