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Out-of-Character Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson

2011 Nov 28, 9:24PermalinkCommentshumor science neil-degrasse-tyson stephen-colbert video

(via Best. research paper abstract. evar.)

2011 Nov 24, 3:34


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Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA (reddit.com)

2011 Nov 14, 1:26PermalinkCommentsscience reddit neil-degrasse-tyson interview

A history of map monsters. (IMAGES)

2011 Sep 20, 9:19PermalinkCommentsScience technical

Tesla vs Edison T-Shirt from Monsters of Grok

2011 Aug 31, 10:03Awesome shirt of Tesla/Edison in the style of the AC/DC logo.
PermalinkCommentsscience humor electricity tesla edison tshirt shirt wishlist

Augmented-reality mood-detection goggles: "a primer in the law of unintended consequences" - Boing Boing

2011 Jul 9, 1:49Glasses that whisper in your ear the mood of the person with whom you're speaking and a jerk-o-meter you wear around your neck that tells you when you're being a jerk. Social devices.PermalinkCommentssocial science tool augmented-reality

That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification

2011 Apr 29, 3:54That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification
Chlo´e Kiddon and Yuriy Brun
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-2350
fchloe,brung@cs.washington.eduPermalinkCommentstechnology humor twss science paper csc technical system:filetype:pdf system:media:document

Lessig: Copyright isn't just hurting creativity: it's killing science (video) | Motherboard

2011 Apr 27, 2:22"Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information"

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.

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Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

2011 Apr 27, 2:21Competing price setting algorithms create a very high priced book. "But Peter Lawrence can now comfortably boast that one of the biggest and most respected companies on Earth valued his great book at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping)."PermalinkCommentshumor internet blog science book commerce ad

BBC News - Polar bears get the better of spy cameras

2011 Mar 10, 6:14Polar bears destroy hiddern cameras (filming them for Science!) It is a well known fact that polar bears are very protective of their rights to privacy.
PermalinkCommentsvideo science nature animals bbc humor

YouTube - Minecraft Experiments in Animal Sacrifice #3: Double Slit Experiment

2011 Mar 3, 5:53PermalinkCommentsminecraft humor video chicken science

Mind vs. Machine - Magazine - The Atlantic

2011 Feb 17, 1:01Brian Christian on his involvement in the 2009 Turing Test and his goal of winning Most Human Human.PermalinkCommentshistory ai science

Good Night, Moon by Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling and Tim Bower | Tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Stories

2010 Oct 14, 10:30PermalinkCommentstodo fiction scifi rudy-rucker bruce-sterling short-story

Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan from Gedanken Fictions: Stories on Themes in Science, Technology, and Society By Thomas A. Easton

2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy scifi fiction read short-story brain

Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures

2010 Aug 4, 2:29Using games for good! Foldit players are solving real biochemistry problems. "Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities and behavior, or simply used games to drum up excitement for the science. But this may be the first time that the gamers played an active role in producing the results, having solved problems in protein structure through the Foldit game."PermalinkCommentsvideogame game biology science research

Color Survey Results « xkcd

2010 May 4, 10:51Survey asks you for your gender and color blindness status and then shows you various colors one by one and asks you to type the name. The results of this survey are presented here. Very few differences between genders but there's plenty of interesting results in this document.PermalinkCommentsvia:swannman science statistics color psychology xkcd humor art

NOVA | The Pluto Files | Hate Mail from Third Graders (non-Flash) | PBS

2010 Apr 15, 2:52Scans of some of a few instances of hate mail Neil deGrasse Tyson received from elementary school students after demoting Pluto to non-planet status.
PermalinkCommentshate-mail mail humor cute children neil-degrasse-tyson science pluto space planet astronomy

Popular Science Archive - Google Books

2010 Mar 5, 3:15A full archive of Popular Science magazines.
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YouTube - The Internet Is Made Of Cats

2010 Jan 28, 2:27"The Internet Is Made Of Cats. This is FACT and also science. We have written this educational song on the subject. It is wonderful and will also make you clever."PermalinkCommentshumor video cat internet web lolcat music

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report -- Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 -- BMJ

2010 Jan 20, 2:03The only doctor in Antarctica has to remove his own appendix. "When Rogozov had made the incision and was manipulating his own innards as he removed the appendix, his intestine gurgled, which was highly unpleasant for us..." Oh wow, Rogozov should for sure appologize for making you uncomfortable. Jerk. There's photos in the report too. Gross.PermalinkCommentshistory science medicine antarctic appendix russia via:kottke
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