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Category Archives: Smarts
Gore’s Presidency: A Retrospective
Let’s keep this presidential train rolling with some juicy fan fiction. Five writers for New York Magazine take turns wrapping 2-year ribbons around the maypole, imagining what it would’ve been like if Gore had won in 2000 and 2004. Two … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001, Al Gore, Canon, Fan Fiction, Glenn Beck, Historical Fiction, History, Jane Smiley, Kevin Baker, Kurt Anderson, New York Magazine, Opinion, Politics, Retcon, The Browser, Walter Kirn, White House
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Thars Gold in them Watches
Bill Hammack is one of my favorite explainers. Keep it up, Engineer Guy. [via Make Magazine]
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Tagged Bill Hammack, Design, Education, Electricity, Engineer Guy, Gold, How Stuff Works, Make Magazine, Piezoelectric Effect, Quartz, Resonance, Resonant Motion, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, Time, Watches
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Sundog Puppy
[via the Daily What]
Identify this Celestial Body
Embiggen. Phil Plait @ Discovery Magazine explains: The Sun’s surface puts out light at all wavelengths, but the surface isn’t solid. It’s a gas, and it tapers off with height. Normally, a thin gas in space emits light at very … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Friedman, Art, Astronomy, Beautiful, Discovery Magazine, Education, How Stuff Works, Kottke, Phil Plait, Photography, Scary, Sun, Technology
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Meet the Intersection of the Future
The Diverging Diamond Interchange: [via Core77] [image via GOOD]
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Tagged Beautiful, Core77, Culture, Design, Education, Future, GOOD, How Stuff Works, Science, Technology, Traffic, What is this I don't even
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Sundog
[via Scott Beale @ Laughing Squid]
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Tagged Animals, Competition, Dogs, Food, Funny, Laughing Squid, Scott Beale
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Physical Peer to Physical Peer
It’s called Dead Drops. Hey guy, what the hell are you doing? Oh. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Becky Stern, Community, Craft, Creativity, Culture, Dead Drops, Design, File Sharing, Funny, Future, Make Magazine, Peer-to-Peer, Technology
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Not So Boring Drill
Speaking of Minecraft, here’s some real mining craft, crafting mines. Wikipedia fills us in on the Gotthard Base Tunnel: After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted the AlpTransit project in a 1992 referendum, construction of the tunnel began in 1996. … Continue reading
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Tagged Craft, Design, Drills, Future, Kottke, Minecraft, Mining, Scary, Technology, The Guardian, What is this I don't even, Wikimedia Commons
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Pineberries
Pineberries. Look like strawberries, taste like pineapples. Do want. Still looking for: Snozzberries Elderberries [originally via John Farrier @ Neatoroma, but the link went and died] [image via Wikimedia Commons]
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Tagged Beautiful, Food, Fruit, John Farrier, Neatorama, What is this I don't even, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Perfect Periodic Table
“Nothing is perfect, not even the best of periodic tables, but this website comes so close.” Play around with this for a few minutes. I really can’t imagine a better periodic table than this. [The nearly perfect ptable via the quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Beautiful, Charts, Chemistry, Design, Education, Fuck Yeah Chemistry, How Stuff Works, Opinion, Periodic Table, ptable, Science
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