Photo [mikelao26 via Flickr] Modern interface designers hate you. With few exceptions, the modern gadget is as impossible to navigate as were the seas before the sextant and the marine
Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their construction.
A pharmacist at the Tricks of the Trade weblog has a tip on how to get down hard-to-swallow capsules: Place the capsule in your mouth, take a drink of water, and tilt your head forward instead of backward. The capsule should float, and will be at the back of your throat, read to swallow.
The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find out where the works of over 8,000 different fine artists can be viewed online.
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I'm here to tell you that there’s more to us Crazy Australians than kangaroos, the outback, and Sydney. So, to help you understand why we are the way we are, I've compiled a list of things that culturally shape Australians into the fun-loving, laid-back, hard-asses that we are... - The-TrukstoP.com, the website of Greg Davies - web head, geek, and general nuisance
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The Lab has found some of the funniest, most entertaining segments from the Why is it so? series, and made them available for twenty first century enjoyment - over both dialup or broadband connections. Now you too can watch some 'enchanting experiments' with the good professor!
Scientists in Norway have unearthed the remains of a prehistoric sea reptile previously unidentified by researchers. University of Oslo researchers found new teeth, skull fragments, and vertebrae on the Svalbard
Scientists announce the discovery of the world's most intact dinosaur mummy -- a 67-million-year-old plant-eater that contains fossilized bones and skin tissue, and possibly muscle and organs.
A young professor has used her favorite childhood toy, a laser printer, and a toaster oven to make microfluidic devices - tiny computer chips with plumbing that are usually fabricated
In FAR OUT: 101 Strange Tales From Science's Outer Edge Mark Pilkington charts some of the more curious byways, scenic detours, and inspired failures of scientists, inventors, and, yes, crackpots, over the past few hundred years.Check out the excerpt below or on Scribd.com
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