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The 315-Year-Old Science Experiment
The most arrogant astronomer in Switzerland in the mid-20th century was a solar physicist named Max Waldmeier. Colleagues were so relieved when he retired in 1980 that they nearly retired the initiative he led as director of the Zurich Observatory. Waldmeier was in charge of a practice that dated back to Galileo and remains one of the longest continuous scientific practice in history: counting sunspots.
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Meet the robots making Amazon even faster
As Amazon gears up for Cyber Monday and the busy holiday shopping season, it's getting help from thousands of robots that search through millions of items to ensure the right item gets shipped to the right customer. CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi takes us inside an Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, Calif., to watch the robots in action.
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YouTube Experiments With 4K Video At 60 Frames Per Second
The six 4K videos feature clips from a volcanic explosion and in-game footage from the space-based game Star Citizen.
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Extraordinary Toroidal Vortices (ring-shaped bubbles) made by dolphins and whales.
It's fascinating to me to see these animals create these almost magical toys to play with.
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Steampunk Star Wars Illustrations by Björn Hurri
Concept artist and illustrator Björn Hurri has been releasing a series of steampunk illustrations as a tribute to Star Wars. Björn is currently working in the entertainment industry as Lead Artist ...
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Murdered son's final work mysteriously finds way to dad
It's a story of either fate, destiny or incredible coincidence. Nine years after his son was murdered, a man comes across the last thing his son touched, with a special inscription from a stranger.
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Emergency Party Button
A big red button is, by human nature, an object of compulsion. If you see it, you are overcome with the desire to push it. But what happens when you do?
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22 month old toddler on a climbing wall
Start them young...
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This Guy Invented Shoes That Grow Five Sizes In Five Years For Kids In Developing Countries
Kenton Lee was working at an orphanage in Kenya when he noticed a little girl with the ends of her shoes cut off and her toes sticking out. It was then that he came up with the idea for The Shoe That Grows. “For years the idea of these growing shoes wouldn’t leave my mind,” he told BuzzFeed News. The first step was starting Because International with a few friends in 2006, a nonprofit devoted to “working with and helping those in extreme poverty,” their site says.
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Dancing Typography - Never Gonna Give You Up
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The Professional Designer's Guide to using Black
Who knew there were so many colors of black?
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Take My Lightning But Don't Steal My Thunder
British artist Alex Chinneck's latest project is what appears to be a floating building. Actually, it looks like a 40-foot-long section of the historic, 184-year-old Covent Garden Market Building is cut horizontally and levitating more than 10 feet over its detached lower half.
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Driveable LEGO Hotrod Built from 500,000 Pieces and Runs Entirely on Air
This impressive-looking, life-sized LEGO-built hotrod isn’t just for show - it really works!
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Weather quirk makes Chicago skyline mirage over Lake Michigan
The weird image over Lake Michigan wasn't extra-terrestrial, it was something almost as odd: a mirage of the Chicago skyline, upside-down, from the other side of the lake — about 60 miles away.
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Beautiful Chemistry
Beautiful Chemistry is a project collaboration between the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University Press. The goal of this project is to bring the beauty of chemistry to the general public through digital media and technology.
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What Has Four Legs, Four Eyes, and Will Blow Your Mind?
At first glance you might see a chameleon walking along a branch...
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Imaging at a trillion frames per second
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel Becomes The Grand Overlook Hotel in Wes Anderson’s The Shining
Most movie mashups force two disparate films together to mild comic effect, but Steve Ramsden’s coupling of Kubrick’s The Shining and Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel is something more: an expertly edited reimagining that educates as much as it entertains.
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When 100 people lift a bus
The story of how about 100 strangers lifted a double-decker bus to free a unicyclist trapped underneath.
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What Is Life? Is Death Real?
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