June 2012
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Kennedy Space Center 50th Anniversary Video Celebrating 50 years: 1962-2012
Take a look at Kennedy Space Center’s rich legacy as the spaceport celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 1, 2012.
This is where dreams are made, where the impossible became possible and the minds of men conquered the cosmos.
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The Physics of Toilets →
How a rush of water, a carefully placed tube that you can’t see and the physics of water cohesion and siphons keep the canoes running downstream:
“Toilets have three major components. The first is a bowl. We all know what that’s for. The second is a tank. We can all see that. The last is behind the bowl, in that little tube from whose bourn - hopefully - no traveler returns....
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“Other countries are sending more kids to college. They’re getting higher...”
– A conversation with Bill Gates about innovating higher education
A really fascinating look at how truly homogeneous and screwy our higher education system’s standards are, how low our completion rates are, and how the Gates Foundation and others are trying to make it better.
It won’t...
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… the ratio of record highs to record lows so far this year in the United States.
But with state legislatures declaring that talking about things like projections of rising sea level should be illegal, we can all go ahead and look the other way.
Actually no we shouldn’t. Climate science battles are fought with armies of thousands of informed citizens. Check out this guide on how to...
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“Science sells itself. It needs no polish or varnish or manufactured appeal to be...”
– Megan Garber, reacting to a European Commission ad titled “Science: It’s a Girl Thing!” (via theatlantic)
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Google's Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat... →
Google’s X Lab designed a particular neural network to discern whether an algorithm could learn to recognize faces without being fed information on exactly what a face was. It did great at that task.
It also found cat videos quite well:
The “brain” simulation was exposed to 10 million randomly selected YouTube video thumbnails over the course of three days and, after being presented with a list...
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My 10 Favorite Styles of Science Stories On The...
Because sometimes, we need to laugh at ourselves or cry or something …
1) 10 bullet points from a slideshow list that I copied off another website
See? Here’s one now!
2) [space picture with no context]
3) Are we asking questions in our headlines about things that our article doesn’t answer?
4) Research suggests that thing A was mentioned in the same press release as thing B and I will now...
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“I was learning about regeneration. We were injecting axolotls and seeing how...”
– Emma Stone, discussing how she learned about stem cells while filming Amazing Spider-Man, as if we needed another reason to love her.
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“… the technology is advancing about four times faster than Moore’s...”
– Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, speaking about his new project “Revive and Restore”.
His team plans on tackling the ethical, environmental and technical aspects of working to bring extinct species back to life, and making sure that habitats and humanity are ready for...
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