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april 2007 by maciej
world's biggest cryo facility
lhc
physics
cryo
cold
magnetism
cool
april 2007 by maciej
Lens an Astrophysicist!
march 2007 by maciej
demo of gravitational lensing using point masses in front of giant images of astrophysical luminaries
ha
cool
gravity
demo
physics
lensing
einstein
grocklebar
march 2007 by maciej
A collection of TRACE images (26) (great Sun porn)
march 2007 by maciej
climb aboard that old Solar Lander!
sun
astro
nasa
trace
img
cool
march 2007 by maciej
Orbits in Strongly Curved Spacetime
march 2007 by maciej
awesome little interactive java app
app
gravitation
relativity
black
hole
physics
astro
cool
march 2007 by maciej
Giant Ichneumon Wasps Ovipositing
january 2007 by maciej
amazing photo series
insect
entomology
wasp
parasitism
photo
cool
january 2007 by maciej
Tales of old Shanghai - Library
october 2006 by maciej
absolutely fantastic collection of old English-language writing about China
etext
lib
china
cult
hist
colonialism
cool
lit
october 2006 by maciej
Conrad First: Home Page
october 2006 by maciej
electronic editions of every magazine where Joseph Conrad's work first appeared
cool
etext
conrad
lit
polish
english
october 2006 by maciej
Kokuhaku: Pictures at Black Ship
october 2006 by maciej
amazing photos from the recently-published (in Japanese) book of an American defector to north korea
north_korea
mil
us
history
photo
cool
october 2006 by maciej
James Tauber : Poincaré Project
september 2006 by maciej
attempt at a plain English explanation of the conjecture and its proof
poincare
math
popularization
blog
cool
september 2006 by maciej
Free the Maps
august 2006 by maciej
this is a great idea, and the ransom apparently has been met
geo
data
map
internet_archive
gis
pubdomain
cool
august 2006 by maciej
dorodango - japanese mud balls
august 2006 by maciej
these are unbelievably pretty
japan
cult
craft
kidculture
mud
art
cool
august 2006 by maciej
Coulter's Smithing Projects
august 2006 by maciej
really neat home science projects that make me wish I were a rich beardo
sci
homebrew
cool
hack
physics
dyi
august 2006 by maciej
Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » ZOMBIE COCKROACHES
august 2006 by maciej
craziest parasitic wasp I have read about yet
insect
etym
wow
cool
bugs
eco
neuro
august 2006 by maciej
The Loom : A Dead Dog Lives On (Inside New Dogs)
august 2006 by maciej
dog tumor propagates its way into immortality, other dogs
bio
med
weird_science
cancer
cool
august 2006 by maciej
American Scientist Online - The Source of Europe's Mild Climate
july 2006 by maciej
everything I thought I knew about the North Atlantic conveyor is wrong
thermohaline
debunk
climate
geo
cool
weather
sea
july 2006 by maciej
Article on Beijing's Russian 'hood
july 2006 by maciej
apparently the pedicab drivers say "bayaheli"
russia
beijing
cult
neighborhood
explore
cool
china
grocklebar
july 2006 by maciej
Introduction to Wubi for English speakers
june 2006 by maciej
my Chinese input technique is unstoppable
chinese
hanzi
input
encoding
system
cool
intimidation
june 2006 by maciej
Video Animations - n-body problem
june 2006 by maciej
pretty math animations, including giant buckyball with symmetry sauce
math
gravity
physics
sim
visualization
cool
june 2006 by maciej
Shredding Scissors
june 2006 by maciej
neat gadget for shredding without a shredder
snip
engineering
design
tool
cool
june 2006 by maciej
Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Ground Effect and WIG Vehicles
june 2006 by maciej
neat photos of ground effect planes, including the Russian monsters
aviation
cool
lift
physics
russian
engineering
june 2006 by maciej
World Language Mapping System User Area: Huffman Language Phyla
may 2006 by maciej
beautiful language distribution maps
linguistics
map
obsess
lang
geo
cool
may 2006 by maciej
languagehat.com: THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR BALDERDASH.
may 2006 by maciej
Why is there this craving to see Chinese as some sort of weird Forbidden City? It's just a language, much like any other; it happens to be written with a more complicated set of graphs than most
essay
chinese
language
orientalism
cool
lang
linguistics
writing
may 2006 by maciej
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
may 2006 by maciej
cute exercise in chinese constrained writing illustrating the gulf between modern and classical chinese, as well as the problem with homophony in the language. Entire poem consists of the repeated syllable "shi"
chinese
classical
poem
constrained
writing
lit
cult
cool
may 2006 by maciej
Avoidance speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
may 2006 by maciej
some australian languages had a whole other lexicon you would use within earshot of taboo relatives
wtf
lang
linguistics
australia
cult
cool
ethno
may 2006 by maciej
Learn Chinese Characters
may 2006 by maciej
amazing interactive website for playing around with chinese characters
chinese
writing_systems
cool
ui
etym
may 2006 by maciej
A few words on Quechua
may 2006 by maciej
neat sketch of the language
lang
south_america
linguistics
etym
reference
cool
peru
may 2006 by maciej
Razzle Dazzle — Dazzle Painting
april 2006 by maciej
neat word war one era camouflage for ships
art
military
navy
design
cool
april 2006 by maciej
Mapping religion in America (regionsofmind.blog-city.com)
april 2006 by maciej
great maps of religious affilliation by county
usa
religion
jeebus
demographics
map
cool
april 2006 by maciej
Mother lode of interesting usenet postings
april 2006 by maciej
lots of good stuff in aviation and nukes, probably more
aviation
reference
usenet
nukes
computing
cool
april 2006 by maciej
Piraha - language without number, raises doubts on "Universal Grammar"
april 2006 by maciej
fascinating paperby slightly sun-baked linguist deep in the Amazon on a language unlike any other
linguistics
anthro
amazon
brazil
culture
cognition
cool
pdf
grocklebar
april 2006 by maciej
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Irish documentary on Hugo Chavez
april 2006 by maciej
Excellent documentary in eight parts
south_america
venezuela
chavez
documentary
film
cool
globalization
april 2006 by maciej
Stung - insects and the ways they hurt us
april 2006 by maciej
"There I was, 10 feet up a tree, holding a bag of live wasps in one hand, basically blinded with pain."
entomology
bug
ow
pain
bio
eco
cool
april 2006 by maciej
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » 1906 Ground Motion Simulations
april 2006 by maciej
very cool simulations of the 1906 SF quake
san_francisco
earthquake
disaster
sim
visualization
cool
april 2006 by maciej
Clipper Ship Cards. Advertising voyages between Boston and San Francisco.
march 2006 by maciej
beautiful gallery of clipper ship sailing cards, color ads the size of a large postcard
advertising
hist
sail
marine
econ
design
cool
gallery
march 2006 by maciej
perito-moreno.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x600 pixels) - Scaled (96%)
march 2006 by maciej
fantastic aerial photo of the perito moreno glacier
glacier
argentina
img
cool
patagonia
march 2006 by maciej
The New Yorker: Interview with Jon Lee Anderson
march 2006 by maciej
covers liberia and his own year in Africa as a kid
liberia
jon_lee_anderson
writer
explore
cool
interview
march 2006 by maciej
Halteres - insect guidance system
march 2006 by maciej
neat vestigial wing flappy thing that helps flying insects see straight
insect
flight
biophysics
aviation
cool
march 2006 by maciej
A mystery of Earth's wobble solved: It's the ocean
march 2006 by maciej
Chandler wobble - a 433 day fluctuation in earth's spin. The poles move by 3 to 15 meters.
earth
geo
astro
cool
wobble
measurement
marine
march 2006 by maciej
Russians plan to drill through into Lake Vostok
march 2006 by maciej
spat over whether the russians will contaminate the lake, which has been sealed off for 10 million years and might have strange life in it
exobiology
antarctica
drilling
russia
eco
science
geo
cool
fossil
march 2006 by maciej
The boundary cross at Jungholz
february 2006 by maciej
neat bit of Austrian border arcana
border
law
cool
geo
austria
germany
february 2006 by maciej
Maradona - Life is Life - Google Video
february 2006 by maciej
Maradona warms up at a Dutch stadium. Incredible ball tricks
smoove
ha
soccer
maradona
argentina
cool
video
february 2006 by maciej
Arslanián: túnel se habría hecho hace 3 meses y algun ladron salio
february 2006 by maciej
more info on the great Buenos Aires bank heist of 1/13 [spanish]
heist
cool
buenos_aires
bank
es
february 2006 by maciej
amicima :: home
january 2006 by maciej
neat app for throwing files, voice, images etc. at other people, includes NAT penetration
p2p
app
cool
january 2006 by maciej
Great Circle Mapper
december 2005 by maciej
Fun app for displaying air routes, including ETOPs restrictions
aviation
app
cool
map
geo
december 2005 by maciej
Close to the edge
november 2005 by maciej
test pilot describes the terrifying spin-testing program for the RAF tornado
aviation
story
cool
november 2005 by maciej
This week in mathematical physics
november 2005 by maciej
great newsletter
math
physics
newsletter
cool
november 2005 by maciej
Cold Explosions
october 2005 by maciej
Russian article on how and why some methylated cyclohexane + chlorine mixtures explode when chilled to around 10K
cool
chem
physics
russian
boom
grocklebar
october 2005 by maciej
NSF Artists and Writers program, Antarctica
october 2005 by maciej
Free travel and polar clothing, hang out at the bottom of the world
antarctica
art
grant
cool
october 2005 by maciej
1903 Siberian ornithology expedition
october 2005 by maciej
fascinating trip with photos by some Australian bird geeks at the turn of the last century
siberia
travel
birds
hist
cool
october 2005 by maciej
Most Heat Tolerant Insects
september 2005 by maciej
desert ants appear to define the limits of animal heat tolerance, 53 degrees C
biophysics
desert
eco
insect
cool
september 2005 by maciej
NYC Hurricane Evacuation Application - Find Your Location
september 2005 by maciej
enter your address and this handy utility will tell you whether or not to panic (with map)
nyc
geo
hurricane
cool
gis
disaster
metro
september 2005 by maciej
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