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Bad Astronomer is BADA55 or…
…How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Near Earth Objects On November 8, 2011, you probably heard or read the news that an asteroid, 2005 YU55, flew between the Earth and the Moon. If you haven’t...
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Clean your room the NASA JPL way
(source) Did you see the launch of the Mars Curiosity Rover last week from NASA at Cape Kennedy, Florida? It was awesome! Curiosity is an exciting and important robot because its job when it gets to...
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Don’t harsh my placebo, man!
Source Hooray! Science hasn’t figured everything out yet. There is more to discover and explore about the world. The funny thing is, though, that when we don’t have an explanation for something it can...
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“Frequent travel may be required”
(source) “WANTED: Astronaut candidates” *sigh* The heading of the want ad of your dreams right? Many of us can’t think of a more prestigious job. Adventure! Exploration! Guts! Glory! NASA recently...
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Cary Huang’s enhanced Scale of the Universe…
Original Scale of the Universe (source) ….is a parody and I was fooled and originally had a serious post on it. I should have known better than to post anything from a 4Chan link. Cary Huang created an...
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Rubik’s Cube
(source) Back in 1981, the big toy of the year was the Rubik’s cube. We –the kids of olden times of yore– went bananas over this thing. We fiddled with them constantly and everywhere to the dismay of...
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Weird and Wonderful Gyroscopes
Have you ever played with a gyroscope? They’re pretty fascinating little gadgets. Gyroscopes can do things that we don’t see in any other objects. Here’s a video showing some kids doing tricks with...
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Amanda Palmer visits MIT’s Media Lab
Amanda Palmer picture from her Kickstarter page for her new album. Rockstar/artist Amanda Palmer, well known for her vocals, piano, keyboard and ukelele performances and recordings, explored some...
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Dinofuzz in Amber-Golden Capsules of Deep Time
Polished sphere of amber with a beetle inclusion. (source) Amber is fossilized tree resin from prehistoric conifer trees. The slow and sticky resin oozed out of a tree when it suffered damage and...
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Awesome Heros Wield Pee Power
Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola engineered this generator that turns urine into electricity. (source) A group of four girls ages 14-15 demonstrated their...
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