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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Watch NASA’s Amazing Monkey Robot Walk, Climb and Clear Obstacles
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory drew some raised eyebrows when it …
What Happens When Water Freezes in a Box So Strong It Can’t Expand?
By Karl Smallwood – TodayIFoundOut.com
Some readers may recall a science class in which an excitable teacher walked to the front of the class to show off a small, cracked steel container, seemingly damaged by an incredibly powerful, but tiny force; only for said teacher to reveal that the damage had been done by nothing more than water. However, what would happen if you put the water in a container it couldn’t break out of and then froze it?
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WTIT: A Process of How It Seeks Itself, It Eats Itself
How do the animals we eat perceive their own existence and what do they think of us? This experimental short film from …
A genius guy invented the perfect machine to make a single cookie
By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo
Here’s the thing about chocolate chip cookies: they’re delicious. Here’s another thing: unless you’re a professional baker maestro who bakes a batch everyday and tweaks their cookie recipe after every time to adjust the flavor, it’s going to be hard to come up with the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. It’s a numbers game, you just don’t bake enough to figure out exactly what works. Not anymore. Not with this machine. This is perfection.
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Blasting the Brain with Ultrasounds Enhances Sensory Abilities
In an experiment straight out of a comic book, Virginia Tech scientists …
From Dream to 3D Reality: The Fascinating Origins of Pixar
By Matt Blitz – TodayIFoundOut.com
Before a story about toys, before monsters went corporate, before anyone …
Just four months after its introduction, Sprint is axing its ‘One Up’ early upgrade plan, instead pu
Just four months after its introduction, …
Sometimes the Only Explanation For Your Computer Fault Is Witchcraft
Despite being so user-friendly on the whole, computers are incredibly complex systems. So complex that sometimes—just sometimes—the only explanation for a fault is that it must be haunted or something. Just blame the ghost in the machine. […