Category: Sciences
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Best business card ever
Plenty of people will try to teach you how to create a good business card. Catchy, well-designed, well-balanced and unforgettable. Apart from the plain design (OK by that time), here the best possible business card. You will never forget about this guy. Unfortunately, we will not know who W.W.Green is. The exact text: USED CARS…
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The DTB saws cameras in half
The Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin is a museum presenting a large mount of technology history. Quite naturally, they are biased toward presenting a lot of German achievements and this country is known for hosting some of the very best optical engineers and being rightfully proud of brands like Carl Zeiss, Leitz/Leica. Charlie Sorrel wrote a piece…
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100 public libraries on Internet
CollegeDegree.com lists 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access. Knowledge is always free.
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Civilian uses of the atom bomb
The atom bomb is obviously usable (it has been used more than 60 years ago) for war. But some people had the weirdest idea: Using the bomb (Not a nuclear power plant, mind you! A real bomb) for civilian uses. Wired has an interesting list. Digging a hole, a big hole, a harbour Digging a…
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International Space Station in motion
The International Space Station is the product of a complex assembly process out of elements brought upt here by rockets and the space shuttle. Here is a video animation from USA today showing the sequence of events in this build-up.
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Man/woman? Your browser knows it
You can browse, but you can’t hide… from your browser. Actually, your browser knows a lot about you. Some scientists believe that from your browsing habits they can recognize fairly precisely if you’re a man or a woman. Using your browser URL history to estimate gender Be patient, it may be long. According to it,…
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Roomba dance
The Roomba autonomous and (nearly) intelligent vacuum cleaner runs around to clean the floor. Example of its convoluted path: Not bad for a vacuum cleaner which has a very limited and very artificial intelligence!
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Zoom into steel
Visit the infinitely small as we zoom right into steel. Zoom into Steelpar Weird_Weird_Science
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Big Earth
True Marble™ is a true color, photo-realistic, high resolution, 3 terabyte image of the earth. All data is provided at a base 15 meter resolution. Even if this was not shot in a single time (sattelite imagery is a bit more complex than Gigapan panoramas), this is really stupendous. But even more, you can download…