Tag Archive: science


Grow Your Home

A great idea from Mitchell Joachim. Not sure meat houses are ready for the pub­lic, but grow­ing wooden houses from veget­a­tion is a rad­ical and bril­liant solu­tion to ecologically-friendly communities.

Tactile Computing

Every now and then someone at TED presents a tech­no­logy or an idea that’s so utterly amaz­ing, or ridicu­lously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT pro­ject called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been mess­ing around with com­put­ing for 25 years my jaw is still drag­ging along the floor. Check it out.

Calling all Ne’er-Do-Wells

The Evil League of Evil is recruiting!

The rum­blings you’ve been hear­ing in the crim­inal under­ground indeed are true: At long last, we are seek­ing new applic­ants to the League.

For what pur­pose, I hear you cry?

The best applic­ants, as determ­ined by the League or its des­ig­nated agents, will be included on a spe­cial DVD com­mem­or­at­ing our .

Yes, it’s a com­pet­i­tion to be included in the bonus fea­tures of the Dr Horrible DVD. Awesome, and a great excuse to fin­ish my own freeze ray.

What’s the Weather Like on Mars?

 

Martian Blizzard - by Uqbar

Martian Blizzard — by Uqbar

According to NASA, the Phoenix Lander has detec­ted snow fall­ing from clouds 4km above its land­ing site. Whilst the snow is vapour­ising before it hits the ground, this is a remark­able obser­va­tion of Mars’ ves­ti­gial atmo­spheric pro­cesses in motion.

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