2011 Nov 24, 3:34
humor science 2011 Sep 20, 9:19Science technical 2011 Aug 31, 10:03Awesome shirt of Tesla/Edison in the style of the AC/DC logo.
science humor electricity tesla edison tshirt shirt wishlist 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.
social science tool augmented-reality 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.edu
technology humor twss science paper csc technical system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 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.
copyright science lawrence-lessig video talk 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)."
humor internet blog science book commerce ad 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.
video science nature animals bbc humor 2011 Feb 17, 1:01Brian Christian on his involvement in the 2009 Turing Test and his goal of winning Most Human Human.
history ai science 2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.
via:waxy scifi fiction read short-story brain 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."
videogame game biology science research 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.
via:swannman science statistics color psychology xkcd humor art 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.
hate-mail mail humor cute children neil-degrasse-tyson science pluto space planet astronomy 2010 Mar 5, 3:15A full archive of Popular Science magazines.
popular-science google books magazine history archive 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."
humor video cat internet web lolcat music 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.
history science medicine antarctic appendix russia via:kottke
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