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Katie Lewis
Beautiful art installations based on carefully charting bodily phenomena then removing any description of the phenomena or graphing axes
art  science  charting  infographic 
july 2011 by amdavidson
The Physics of Angry Birds | Wired Science | Wired.com
Hilarious study of the physics of an iPhone game, Angry Birds, and if it complies to simplified newtonian physics
game  games  iphone  physics  science  gamedesign  birds  angrybirds  angry  gravity  newtonian  from delicious
october 2010 by amdavidson
Homemade Spacecraft on Vimeo
Wonderful video of the "Brooklyn Space Program". A successful attempt at sending a camera to space on a weather balloon by a parent and a couple of kids.
astronomy  inspiration  interesting  awesome  camera  science  space  diy  earth  experiment  video  spacecraft  homemade  gps  balloon  kids  videos  from delicious
october 2010 by amdavidson
Wayward Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus stop - Telegraph
A german elderly care home uses a fake bus stop (donated my the local transportation agency) to trap alzheimer's patients that are trying to escape the care facility and head to their old homes.<br />
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The facility allows them to stand out there for a short while until they've either forgotten about wanting to leave or are willing to be invited in for tea and coffee while waiting for the bus.
humor  psychology  science  bus  city  elderly  health  memory  alzheimers  disease  aging  from delicious
july 2010 by amdavidson
johndlowell22
a photographer in crimea took a photo of the son at the same time, every ten days for an entire year. clearly showing the analemma of the sun.
astronomy  blog  cycle  earth  sun  time  analemma  photography  photos  science  solar  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Warning: Your reality is out of date - The Boston Globe
An interesting article about a class of facts the author terms "mesofacts" or facts that change slowly over time, such that you may quote them for years and eventually find yourself wildly inaccurate.
science  information  knowledge  learning  mesofacts  facts  reality  article  culture  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan — Tokyo’s rail network grows like slime mold
Awesome study of the way that slime mold generated a mesh between oat flakes laid out as major landmarks in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and how the mesh resembles Tokyo's heavily engineered rail system.
slime  mold  biomimcry  tokyo  japan  rail  network  science  biomimesis  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
Cell Size and Scale - University of Utah
A cool interactive graphic that shows you the relative size of stuff from the size of a coffee bean down to a carbon atom.
animation  awesome  science  infographic  visualization  size  scale  nanometer  metric  dimensions  picometer  pinboard 
october 2009 by amdavidson
/dev/why!?!: The loss of ZFS
an interesting article on the use (or more accurately non-use) of ZFS in Apple and other desktop systems.
apple  zfs  file  systems  fs  engineering  computer  science  technology  windows  osx  hfs  hfs+  fat  pinboard 
october 2009 by amdavidson
http://ingersoll.com/news/Mongoose/Mongoose_V1-081212.mov
Really cool fiber layup technology. Lays individual bands of tape in various directions... Complex patterns, complex shapes.
carbon  fiber  layup  tape  placement  cut  patter  materials  manufacturing  process  science  technology 
july 2009 by amdavidson
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Awesome information on a very cool, but scrapped, propulsion idea from the 50s.
science  nuclear  wikipeida  physics  orion  propulsion  space  travel  nasa 
may 2009 by amdavidson
MCE-5’s Variable Compression Gas Engine Promises Power and Efficiency - PickupTrucks.com News
Interesting article on variable compression motors from a french company... Claims are outlandish, but the idea (varying cylinder compression) makes sense... Might even enable HCCI engines that have been in development for decades.
cars  compression  science  ICE  internalcombustion  engine  piston  crankshaft  head  automotive  automobile  technology  HCCI 
april 2009 by amdavidson
NTSC Video - Whassit all mean anyway?
awesome article on image compression and our ability to see blue.
photography  video  TV  links  design  vision  color  compression  image  science 
april 2009 by amdavidson

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