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19. August 2008

Who would have thought that reCAPTCHA's were actually for something useful instead of an annoying and yet clever way to ensure you weren't a spammer?

Adam Savage Is a Geeky God

19. August 2008

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At the end of July, the H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference was held in New York. One of the featured speakers was Adam Savage, co-host of the Mythbusters. Savage talked about his geeky passion for creating and learning, and described (among other things) his personal recreation of a dodo skeleton. He also took questions from the audience.

Book Review: The Way Toys Work

15. August 2008

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Did you know that the inventor of the erector set won an Olympic gold medal in the pole vault in 1908? Or that the Slinky was named by thumbing through a dictionary looking for a word that sounded like the motion of a toy? Or that (despite popular belief), Furbies do not listen for new words to add to their vocabularies (and therefore should never have been banned from government property)? Neither did I, until I read The Way Toys Work:The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball, Etch A Sketch, Boomerang, and More.

Japanese Robots Dominate Wrestling Today, Globe Tomorrow

3. August 2008

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Japanese Robots Dominate Wrestling Today, Globe Tomorrow

If you thought early-2000s shows like Robot Wars and Battlebots were the pinnacle of competitive robotic sports, check out this clip from Wired Science's Geek Dad segment in Season 1, Episode 5.

Apollo 14 astronaut says “aliens are real”, pats Mulder on the back comfortingly

23. July 2008

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Apollo 14 astronaut says “aliens are real”, pats Mulder on the back comfortingly

Edgar Mitchell is not only an astronaut, but someone who's interested in paranormal phenomena. While on Apollo 14, in addition to doing cool back flips and science stuff, he conducted private ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.

Beautiful water on Mars - Echus Chasma

14. July 2008

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Mars never seems to disapoint when it comes to amazing images. Here's a stereoscopic image grabbed from the Mars Express spacecraft of Echus Chasma. Here you can see where liquid water was present on the surface of Mars at some time in the past.

All of evolution up to humans, Carl Sagan and line drawings with breasts. In under 8 minutes.

8. July 2008

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I grew up with the warm fuzzy feeling that I could sit down in the evenings, turn on Chanel 2 and enjoy some time with Carl Sagan and the entire Universe as we knew it circa 1980 through the awe inspiring show Cosmos. Then I would watch various wild creatures try and dismember Jim on [...]

Help SETI save Arecibo

3. July 2008

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Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope and the source for the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S. 2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills [...]

Can we call it a constellation prize?

11. June 2008

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For those who have felt bad for our little Pluto who was stripped of its title a couple of years ago of being considered a ‘planet’, perk up, all other little psuedo planets shall from hence forth be called a plutoid in honor of Mickey’s dog. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto, demoted from planet status in 2006, [...]

NASA’s going back to the Moon. Sign up by June 27th and you can go to!

16. May 2008

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Well, at least your name can. Head on over to this page and drop your name into the extremely high flying, very expensive hat. Technorati Tags: nasa, moon, name, yours, send, vroom, space, cool, technology Click the icon, share the link: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers [...]

My top 10: I really do want one of those!!!

9. April 2008

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I’ve always loved getting those little Fingerhut catalogues in the mail to flip through and think “OH COOL!” I learned my lesson of keeping my urges at bay when I purchased the Juicer- but the George Foreman Grill is pretty awesome! (I’m still livid that my ex got that in the divorce- Never use thumb [...]

Are You As Observant as a 5th Grader?

8. April 2008

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Not if you’ve visted the Smithsonian and never noticed the 27 year old mistake. Found on LiveScience which was taken from The Associated Press: ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) — Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, the 11-year-old southwestern Michigan [...]

Mars Global Surveyor snaps picture of another spacecraft orbiting Mars, protecting us from Klingons around Uranus.

2. April 2008

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Okay, it’s really a cloud, but given our tendency to take abstract patterns and glom them into something relatively familiar - we get the Starship Enterprise. It’s nice to know that while we fumble about with space flight and much, much slower than light travel that the boys and girls from Starfleet are [...]

UFO filmed outside of Airplane window. Passengers given extra peanuts to shut up about it

31. March 2008

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We all know in this day and age it’s virtually impossible to fake something like this. I mean, there’s just no way that some amature could put this together without hundreds of dollars worth of equipment and minutes of time on their hands. Still, it makes for a fun watch. Has anyone called [...]

Space Shuttle flips the bird. Then Flambés it. Is there anything NASA can’t do?

27. March 2008

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OUCH! WARNING: Bird Armageddon contained in this video. Technorati Tags: shuttle, nasa, ouch, bird, thwack, space, technology, video, carnage Click the icon, share the link: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

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“Of course I’m not wasting time on the web… I’m transcribing…”

Adam Savage Is a Geeky God

Book Review: The Way Toys Work

Japanese Robots Dominate Wrestling Today, Globe Tomorrow

Apollo 14 astronaut says “aliens are real”, pats Mulder on the back comfortingly

Beautiful water on Mars - Echus Chasma

All of evolution up to humans, Carl Sagan and line drawings with breasts. In under 8 minutes.

Help SETI save Arecibo

Can we call it a constellation prize?

NASA’s going back to the Moon. Sign up by June 27th and you can go to!

My top 10: I really do want one of those!!!

Are You As Observant as a 5th Grader?

Mars Global Surveyor snaps picture of another spacecraft orbiting Mars, protecting us from Klingons around Uranus.

UFO filmed outside of Airplane window. Passengers given extra peanuts to shut up about it

Space Shuttle flips the bird. Then Flambés it. Is there anything NASA can’t do?

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