Ok, this is awesome. TechCrunch just reported on Shapeways, I guess it’s kinda like a Threadless, but for 3D plastic objects. (more types of plastic and metal to come?) You can skip the voting part and just get your 3D work printed if you’re good with CAD but the brilliant part is that even if [...]

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Now this is what I’m talking about. We are planning on doing some moon research and when I say we I mean NASA and when I say research what I mean to say is, smash a spaceship as hard as possible into the moon and watch the ensuing havoc! Man, I tell you, scientists get [...]

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Art. Monday. 2008??!Turns out scientists love studying the laydeees. This time they’re finding that not only are curvier women smarter, their children are smarter too! Some kinda something about fat and optimus prime fats or something. Is it just me, though, or are they recommending that women eat fish for their kids sake? Aren’t pregnant [...]

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The Telegraph has published the secrets - discovered by scientists (of course! you see why I love scientists now?) - of rock, paper scissors. Personally, my secret was always the last tip they give - throw the move that would have beaten your opponent’s previous move and it’s stood me in good stead over these [...]

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In a daring display of one-upsmanship scientists of the auroras borealis were not content with all the press their newer noctilucent cloud studying brethren were getting and have discovered (maybe) the source of power for these northern lights! Using satellites and magic they believe that they are caused by “comes from a stream of charged [...]

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So some random website is reporting that Korean scientists have cloned cats but with a sciency twist. The twist? Obviously they made the cats glow in the dark. Now there’s every possibility that this is a hoax - most likely on the part of the internet, but it’s true that the Korean’s now have a [...]

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You know, when I was growing up, all we had in the way of wierd lights in the sky were UFO’s and Aurora Borealis. But now there’s night-shining clouds for the whippersnappers to gaze upon. These so called noctilucent clouds are coming on faster, lower and brighter than ever before and scientists (my favourite, you [...]

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 monday. monday. art. art.
You know a lot of people think that MetaFilter has gone down hill these past years. But I still read it and it’s posts like this one that remember me why that’s so. It not only notes that this summer has not one but two Judd Apatow films (Knocked Up and Superbad), [...]

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Flaming ice. That’s right, ice. On fire. That’s some cool stuff. I guess there’s ice that contains methane all trapped up in some lattice. BP is looking at these to see if they can find a new source of natural gas in Alaska. Not too many details, I hope it doesn’t involve too much destruction [...]

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So Ballmer is talking about tightening the screws on the pirates to squeeze more money out of BRIC. But wallstreet is saying that Brazil/Russia/India/China is so 2006 and they’ve moved onto the new frontier with countries like Vietnam and Qatar. To bad Microsoft can’t admit that nobody’s buying Vista because there’s not much in the [...]

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