December 2010
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Dec 30th
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Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf (NYTimes) →
Dec 29th
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Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera—A First →
Lightning Scientist Joseph Dwyer captured an image of the x-ray radiation emitted from the tip of a lightning bolt, with a custom-made camera that takes 1,000,000 images per second. Wow. (for both the lightning and the camera)
Dec 28th
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If an app is free, then YOU are the product.
If an internet application is free for you to use, then YOU are the product that the application designer is selling someone else. What does this mean? Application publishers need to make money somehow. Either they can make money by having you pay for the service, or they can provide it free for you and have advertisers pay for your personal information and your eyeballs. (Or they can sell your...
Dec 28th
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Living rock art.
BBC Story: http://ping.fm/ibGQj
Dec 28th
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Lego Compass FAIL Well, it’s not that the Lego’s fail, but to describe this as a compass is complete B.S. It’s an interesting mechanism that will consistently point in whatever direction it’s set, but if you want it to point North, you’ve got to know which way North is beforehand! For that you need a real compass. Can someone send these guys a link to...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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A Blue Eclipse on Mars NASA: “Dust particles make the Martian sky appear reddish and create a bluish glow around the sun. “
Dec 26th
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First WFTDA-Licensed Video Game Available 1/10/11
wftda: So, who are you most excited to skate as?
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat Jesus was always flapping his gums about the poor, but not once did he call for tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Romans.
Dec 21st
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Winter Solstice →
Wikipedia: The winter solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26’. More evident to those in high latitudes, this occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the year, when the sun’s daily maximum position in the sky is the lowest.[1] Since the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, other terms are often...
Dec 21st
Poverty has a huge impact on American Educational... →
Two observations: 1. This should come as no surprise. 2. This is an example of the overall average of a measure giving us a very incomplete picture of what’s going on. All original stories stressed that the US was in the middle of the pack of the world’s industrialized countries. “…data available now tells us that poverty, as usual, had a huge impact on PISA reading test...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Barn →
The barn at my Grandmother’s farm in North Carolina. Don’t let the warm colors fool you, it was 35 degrees and raining outside, and dark inside. The photos are taken with available light, using a tripod and long exposures. I chose a warmer color temperature for the set to mimic the feel that I remember from when we used to play in there in summers. I was hoping for some light rays...
Dec 14th
Dec 10th
“John Naughton, writing in [the Guardian], decried the attack on the openness of...”
– Europeans Criticize Fierce U.S. Response to Leaks By STEVEN ERLANGER
Dec 9th
Cool Data Visualization: Similarities between PhD... →
Dec 8th