| Scientists at the University of Chicago and University of Twente in the Netherlands used high speed X-ray cameras to capture a new state of matter. The experiment itself is simple: drop a marble into losely packed sand. This creates a jet of sand grains that behaves like super-cooled, ultra-dense gas. You can even do this experiment yourself with marble and a cup of sugar! http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/051206_new_matter.html |
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| When expecting a baby, the Goodfellas in all of men need the "Goodfather", a funstructional CD-ROM to teach men how to handle "a baby they can't refuse". Link (Thanks Jason!) |
| Check out Takayasu Tanaka, the champion of the 2005 Japanese Yo-Yo championship. Link |
| Elizabeth Hickok depicts various landscapes of San Francisco using jello. This one above is the Bay Bridge. "I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds. I then cast the buildings in Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, I add backdrops, which I often paint, and elements such as mountains or trees, and then I dramatically light the scenes from the back or underneath. The Jell-O sculptures quickly decay, leaving the photographs and video as the remains." Link (via grow-a-brain) |
| Sixteen-year old Michael Viscardi won first place in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition, the world's most prestigious high school science competition, and a $100,000 college scholarship. The homeschooled senior solved a century old math problem called Dirichlet problem (which is way too complicated to explain here). Way to go, Michael! Link |
Stephen Wulffraat discovered a new species of mammal in the island of Borneo, Indonesia.
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| Saara Salmi's Everything You Did Not Want to Know About Alice and the Rabbit. I knew there's a back story to Alice in Wonderland! Link |
Edward Burtynsky's Rock of Ages documents abandoned quarries. This one's the marble Adam-Pirie Quarry in Barre, Vermont. Link (Thanks for catching the mistake, p3on!) |
What animals do these weird skulls belong to? The California Academy of Sciences has the answer! http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/animal_match.html |
You know these people right? President Bill Clinton and Vice President All Gore. Wrong - look again. It's Clinton's face twice, with two different haircuts. |
| Check out this dog in Japan who got dressed up as a little panda! Link (via Unique Daily) |
This is what became of that spider hole Saddam was hiding in! (via DarkCreek) |
| Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert traveled to 34 countries to make balloon hats for people and take photos of them. For Real. Link |
| This one is called "Bartered". See more of Yuri Matrosovich's cool collection of Anti-Alcohol posters of the Soviet propaganda era: Link |
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