In 1960, the US Air Force asked the RAND Corporation to evaluate the possibility of using stationary rockets to pause the Earth's rotation in the event of a nuclear attack.… Read the rest of the article: US Air Force proposal: pause the Earth's rotation so nukes would miss targets
Ralph Jay Triumfo's official title for this piece is "1% Guitar Skills 9% Chopsticks Skills 90% Editing Skills."
A fellow who walked into an abandoned home in Houston, Texas to smoke weed was surprised to see a caged tiger in the garage. Fortunately, he called police. "We questioned… Read the rest of the article: Texas man wanders into abandoned home to smoke weed, finds large tiger
Police in Fontana, California were searching a suspected gang member's home when they found a manhole built into the floor. Down the ladder was a small secret underground hideout containing… Read the rest of the article: California police find street gang's underground lair
In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright proposed the Illinois Sky-City, a skyscraper taller than one mile (~1,600 meters). That's more than twice the height of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest… Read the rest of the article: Can there be a mile-high skyscraper?
Teams of researchers are developing sesame seed-size neuro-implants that detect brain activity that signals depression and then deliver targeted electrical zaps to elevate your mood. It's very early days in… Read the rest of the article: Brain-zapping implants that change mood and lift depression
Kevin Gill, a NASA software engineer who deals in data visualization and analysis, created this new, director's cut of his low flyover movie of Jupiter's moon Europa. Cut from recently… Read the rest of the article: Watch a low flyover of Jupiter's moon Europa
Kisaragi double 6 created this fantastic hand-drawn stop-motion animation of the Super Mario Bros (1985) World 1-1 level. 動画内では分かりづらいものの、紙ならではのこだわりを持った出演者達です。実際に折ったり燃やしたり、クリボーのやられ方を考えるのは、とっても楽しかったです。 pic.twitter.com/GeawVAkagb — 如月 二重 6 (@KisaragiHutae6) February 11, 2019
In the 1960s, when Scientific American copy editor Michael J. Battaglia was 15, he had a chemical romance with the periodic table. In fact, Battaglia was so fascinated by the… Read the rest of the article: A teenage science geek's quest to collect every element on the periodic table
Bioengineer David Aguilar (aka "Hand Solo") continues to upgrade his DIY LEGO prosthetic arms that we posted about previously with this fantastic fourth generation model. From Reuters: All the versions… Read the rest of the article: Young engineer upgraded the LEGO bionic arm he built for himself
In this 1939 newsreel, the great Lucille Ball demonstrates the Sonovox, a device that brings amplified sound effects from vinyl records into the throat where the tongue and lips modulate… Read the rest of the article: Watch Lucille Ball demo a 1939 ancestor of the "talk box" famously used by Peter Frampton
Legendary designer Dieter Rams lays out the ten principles underlying his approach to "good design." A scene from "Rams", Gary Hustwit's new documentary about legendary designer Dieter Rams, with original… Read the rest of the article: Dieter Rams's "10 Principles of Good Design"
LipPass is a user verification system for mobile devices that verifies your identity by the unique way that you move your lips. Developed by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University,… Read the rest of the article: Your locked phone could verify it's you by listening to your lips move
Of course don't forget to personalize it. (via r/StarWars)
Biomedical engineers prototyped a pill that integrates a syringe to inject insulin into the floor of the stomach. From Science News: The shape is designed to guide the device to… Read the rest of the article: Syringe-pill injects you on the inside
Chocolate contains cocoa solids, except when it is white.
Fluffy the cat's human caretakers found her frozen and unresponsive last week in a Kalispell, Montana snowbank. From CNN: "She was essentially frozen," said Andrea Dutter, director of the Animal… Read the rest of the article: Cat frozen outside like a snowball was dethawed and is just fine
"Humans have massage chairs so why shouldn't our pets have petting machines. I gave it a Rube Goldberg style flare to make it interesting to watch."
This spring, HBO will air a new documentary about Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the Serial podcast. The four-part series is directed by Amy Berg ("Deliver… Read the rest of the article: New documentary about Adnan Syed from the "Serial" podcast
https://youtu.be/QpR_UZz-BS4 Back in 1947, decades before cat memes became a way of life, experimental documentary filmmakers Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid gave us a lovely glimpse of the "Private Life… Read the rest of the article: Watch the Private Life of a Cat
