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Scientist plays Pacman with living organisms. by The Register: Topflight boffins in America have well and truly gasted the world’s flabber by building a sort of miniaturised live arena version of Pac-Man, in which players guide minuscule single-celled organisms to gobble up little balls. The game, dubbed PAC-mecium (the organisms which chase around gobbling balls … Read more
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Noise canceling drill plays mp3s of your choice. by Daily Mail: Scientists have developed a device which plugs into an MP3 player or mobile phone and uses a filtering technique to cancel out the noise of the drill – but still allows the patient to listen to music through headphones and hear what the dentist … Read more
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Vampire flying frog species discovered in Vietnam. by National Geographic: The mountain jungles of Vietnam are home to a new breed of “vampire”—a “flying” tree frog dubbedRhacophorus vampyrus. First found in 2008, the 2-inch-long (5-centimeter-long) amphibian is known to live only in southern Vietnamese cloud forests, where it uses webbed fingers and toes to glide from … Read more
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NYC: UnderCity by Vandalog: UNDERCITY is a really interesting and daring documentary by Andrew Wonder, in which he follows urban historian Steve Duncan in to the belly of the New York Underground system.From the tops of bridges to the depths of sewer tunnels, Steve’s explorations of the subterranean environment are said to help him “puzzle together … Read more
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Vasconcelos Library by Alberto Kalach by Arch Daily: The project integrates the public library with a botanical garden. A 250 meter steel, concrete and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. Mexico City is one of the largest, most polluted and agresive urban environments in the planet. We believe that the planning of public … Read more
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Word Lens App For iPhone & iTouch. by The Smoking Section: The Word Lens iPhone/iTouch app that translates printed words into different languages. It only allows for English to Spanish translation & vice versa for the time being, but other languages should be in the works. If they can find someway that would allow foreign languages to … Read more
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Journalist shows up at Parliament in Bunny costume for interviews. by Yahoo! News Dressed head-to-toe as a white bunny with two huge ears comically sprouting from his head, Roman Vintoniv, a journalist for national Ukrainian television, somehow managed to keep a straight face as he conducted lobby interviews with besuited lawmakers. He said his action was a … Read more
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Introducing DeleteMe (video). THIS IS A GIFT FROM THE HEAVENS! LOL But really, this is a great $$ maker for college students with a backlog of weekend getaways that really weren’t made for Facebook.
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Scorpions glow in the dark to detect moonlight. by New Scientist: Scorpions may use the mysterious green glow they emit in ultraviolet light as a crude tool for deciding when the night is too bright for them to go out safely. As scorpions are nocturnal hunters, it seems odd that they fluoresce instead of camouflaging themselves. Carl Kloock … Read more
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Library of Congress needs your help –identify these Civil War soldiers. by Library Congress Flickr: In remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Liljenquist Family recently donated their rare collection of almost 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress. Most of the people … Read more
