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judgement – take 2 – action!
Tomorrow is the real judgement day, everyone. Not like before. It’s gonna be awesome.
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scale
This stellar diagram blew my mind. VY Canis Majoris is pretty amazing.
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quantum locking
??????
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portal 2
I said more games, and I meant more games. The OS drive in my home desktop machine shit the bed last week. I dragged it into work to file taxes electronically and when I brought it home and plugged it back in it was dead. Two things were fortuitous about this happening. The first was […]
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bugs billions
Nothing to see here, Amy. Move along! Another great animation for RadioLab.
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colonization
The ah, ants moved out first right? There’s a leafcutter colony over at the wonderful Montshire Museum. They’ve recreated the various chambers and tunnels from clear plexiglass so you can stand and watch the different ants doing their respective chores. There’s the graveyard and the fungus gardens and the dumps and a chamber where they […]
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sts-133
Gives me goosebumps. Too bad I’ll never get to see a launch in person, but then again maybe if I stick around long enough I’ll get to be launched in person.
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goes poof
I’d seen this before online, and even tried it last year at work. I think it either wasn’t cold enough outside or my water wasn’t warm enough but it failed. Not this morning. I wish I could have done this all morning but we were freezing and in a hurry to get to work. It […]
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walking in circles
It’s weird, I heard this somewhere recently and now there’s an animated representation of it somewhere else entirely. Could be that I actually heard it on RadioLab. Robert Krulwich is a host on the always excellent radio show. One of their episodes nearly brought me to tears, so I sent them money. RadioLab is the […]