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Category Archives: science
A Squid Responds to Cypress Hill
The chromatophores in a squid stimulated by Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Membrane. More info here
Utility Fog is a hypothetical collection of tiny robots, envisioned by Dr. John Storrs Hall while he was thinking about a nanotechnological replacement for car seatbelts. The robots would be microscopic, with extending arms reaching in several different directions, and … Continue reading
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Temari Balls
“Temari balls are a traditional Japanese craft in which colored thread is applied to a sphere in a geometric pattern. This is a modern example, given to me by the Japanese master Kiyoko Urata.” Taken from a post by George … Continue reading
Unusual Geometric Shapes
This animated image shows a structure called a hyperboloid of one sheet. It is a curved form made up of only straight lines and is one of several strucutre discussed in this blog post by “Miss Cellania” (via boingboing).
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Giant Hole in Guatemala City
This photo was taken from the Guatemalan Government’s Flickr feed and shows a “massive, spontaneous sinkhole (“hundimiento”) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha.” More at boingboing
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Tania Kovats – Tree
Here’s a video documenting the production of Tania Kovats’ artwork Tree made for the Natural History Museum in London. The artwork is a slice cut from the centre of a real oak tree and was inspired by the work of … Continue reading
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Concrete Cast of Enormous Ant Colony
“A giant ant colony pumped full of cement,and then excavated reveals one of Mother Nature’s marvellous wonders. We’ve seen what these giant ant mounds look like above ground but this is an incredible view of what the structures looks like … Continue reading
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3d Printing with Paper
There is an Irish company called Mcor Technologies who have developed a machine for 3d printing using layers of ordinary paper and PVA glue. The Models shown here were created entirely by the machine. Below is a video from the … Continue reading
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The Nerve – Music and the Human Experience
The Nerve – Music and the Human Experience is a six part radio series. The first episode, which dealt with how we perceive music, was played as the lyric feature last Saturday evening. All of the episodes except the fifth … Continue reading
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