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Everybody poops. Even airplanes.
Fogonazos has many more videos like this.
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Tagged Air Drop, Beautiful, Education, Fogonazos, How Stuff Works, Humvee, Scary, Technology, What is this I don't even
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Knife City Renovations
Recently, I moved my blog’s host from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. Those three little letters can cause big headaches for a guy with no web developing experience. Bear with me as I try to sprint up this learning curve as fast … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Tagged Animated GIFs, Education, Julia Segal, Knife City Creamery, Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot, Technology, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org
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Robot Apocalypse Comic
[via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
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Tagged Future, How Stuff Works, Robot Apocalypse, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Science, Smarts, Technology
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The History of American Political Opinion
Seems like a good time to post this. From the video’s creator: Using county-level data, I spatially and temporally interpolated presidential vote returns for the two major party candidates in each election from 1920-2008. The result illuminates the sometimes gradual, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Culture, David B. Sparks, Education, Future, GOOD, History, How Stuff Works, Morgan Clendaniel, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Scary, Technology
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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]
Posted in Smarts
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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Busy Day at the Airport
[via Fogonazos]
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Tagged Airplanes, Airports, Beautiful, Design, Fogonazos, General Electric, Gold Panda, How Stuff Works, Magic, Music, Scary, Science, Skills, Smarts, Technology, Time Lapse
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Conan O’Brien Stunt Reel
[via Gconnect]
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Tagged Action, Animals, Art, Conan O'Brien, Education, Funny, Gconnect, How Stuff Works, Humor, Jokes, Scary, Slapstick, Steven Ho, Stunts, Technology
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Aaron Merritt’s Year In Review
I’ve mentioned Aaron in this space before, but that was a furtively self-serving moment wasn’t it? Today’s post isn’t about me. As Aaron explains, it’s… For me specifically. But then, teachers in general. But- also- everbody. This post isn’t like … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Aaron Merritt, Advice, Alec Baldwin, Amalgamation, Art, Batman, Beautiful, Bill Watterson, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Brown, Craft, Cuba, Cultivation, Culture, Curation, Design, Donnie Darko, Edward Norton, Ferris Bueller, Henri Matisse, John Hughes, Matthew Broderick, Maurice Sendak, Panopticon, Peanuts, Pikachu, Powerpoint, Prison, Prison Presidio Modelo, Roald Dahl, Rubik's Cube, Scott Pilgrim, Shel Silverstein, Skills, Smarts, Spider-Man, Superman, Technology, The Giving Tree, The Goddamn Batman, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, What is this I don't even, Where the Wild Things Are, Wile E. Coyote, Willy Wonka
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Bill Gate's Favorite Teacher Does It for Free
[image via azstarnet] We really shouldn’t care what Bill Gates thinks since he’s the quintessential black swan, but I wanted to catch your eye with a Sully lede. It is true though. Bill Gates sits there with his kids and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Bill Gates, Black Swan, David A. Kaplan, Education, Fortune Magazine, Future, Khan Academy, N. N. Taleb, Passion, Sal Khan, Salman Khan, Smarts, Technology, The Browser, Thoughts, Writing
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Two Square Meters of Sunlight = Death Ray
Maybe not a death ray actually, but definitely a death spot. [BBC's Bang Goes the Theory via Sean Michael Ragan @ Make Magazine]
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Tagged Bang Goes the Theory, BBC, Beautiful, Design, Education, Fire, How Stuff Works, Make Magazine, Scary, Science, Sean Michael Ragan, Smarts, Sun, Technology, Wood
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