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Alan, originally uploaded by dav1d. Hey all — I’m still in the process of acclimating to Earth after several weeks cruising the outer systems of Nebulous 9 aboard the Raygun Gothic. I’ll have a full report as soon as my primary systems are back online (reentry is a bitch) and various field reports start coming [...] What?!? You haven’t seen The Neuron Chamber yet! Well if you live in the Bay Area now is your chance! The Neuron Chamber will be at The Crucible’s 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival July 15-18, 2009. That’s starting tomorrow night! Click here for directions! Charge up your jet pack, set your raygun to indigo, run a final system check and power-up your un-licensed, un-tested n-phase thrust generator and plot a course to … In honor of my dog Piper, who had a very bad day recently when he got a huge fox-tail stuck in his nose, I’ve posted the audio of a talk I delivered a few weeks ago at The Exploratorium about the evolution of the domestic dog. If you have ever wondered exactly how the ferocious wolf [...] I bet you’re wondering what the Swine Flu genome sounds like? Well, luckily Stephan Zielineki has converted it to music. You can listen it it here. Swine flu has been sequenced. More out of curiosity than anything else, I wrote code to translate a key gene into a piece of ambient music: Swine Flu Hemagglutinin (mp3, 6.7 [...] Thanks DS! I knew having my own time machine would pay off some day. Thanks Jeremy! This German forklift safety video is packed with over-the-top gory humor. The action takes off at around the three minute mark and keeps building. The worlds best industrial safety video … not for the faint of heart: Amsterdam Real Time During the months October through December 2002, inhabitants of Amsterdam were invited to be equipped with a tracer-unit. The tracer unit is a portable PDA (Personal Digital Assistant such as an i-Paq or Palm Pilot), which is connected to a GPS unit (Global Positioning System). Using satellite data the tracer calculates its geographical [...] I recently found out about the architectural work of Gramazio & Kohler who use industrial robots to build highly patterned brick walls. . I’m very intrigued by the possibility of creating highly complex, repeating, organic constructions by harnessing the high-precision capabilities of robotic construction. This is an obvious and natural continuation [...] Here’s a charming little video of an old man making typeface. Apparently it’s a trailer for a movie. Videos like this just make me smile. This is literally a mapping of the influence that various scientific fields have on each other generated by Eignfactor.org: Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by Eigenfactor score™. Blue arrows represent citation flow between fields. An arrow from field A to field B indicates citation traffic from A [...] Reuben Margolin is a fantastic, kinetic artist who makes stunning wave machine. Take a few minutes out of your day and watch this Make video featuring him. Reuben and I are fellow member of Applied Kinetic Arts. Speaking of AKA, we are doing another show at Maker Faire this year and Almost Scientific will be installing The [...] |
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