Beautiful art installations based on carefully charting bodily phenomena then removing any description of the phenomena or graphing axes

Hilarious study of the physics of an iPhone game, Angry Birds, and if it complies to simplified newtonian physics

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.

An amusing jab at the capabilities of liberal arts graduates in the event of an impending earth-asteroid collision.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A cool interactive graphic that shows you the relative size of stuff from the size of a coffee bean down to a carbon atom.

an interesting article on the use (or more accurately non-use) of ZFS in Apple and other desktop systems.

Really cool fiber layup technology. Lays individual bands of tape in various directions... Complex patterns, complex shapes.

Awesome information on a very cool, but scrapped, propulsion idea from the 50s.

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.

awesome article on image compression and our ability to see blue.