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Get inside the brain of the mastermind of HowStuffWorks.

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by Marshall Brain

Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory – “Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear…”

Half Bicycle – Half Motorcycle – “Learn about the ErockIT ,motorcycle with pedals”

AMD’s Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal – “AMD’s current notebook platform Puma, which uses Turion X2 Ultra dual-core processors (Griffin) and ATI Radeon Mobility 3000 series graphics, is a competitive product. But it is designed strictly for mainstream notebooks, the relatively inexpensive models with 14- or 15-inch displays that you see on Best Buy shelves…”

10 Gadgets That Have No Business Using a Jet Engine – “Ever since we started putting high-powered engines into jets, there has been a long line of skilled but misguided lunatics eager to rip them out to use in their stupid and dangerous contraptions…”

Hadron Collider repairs cost £14m – “Repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will cost almost £14m ($21m) and “realistically” take until at least next summer to start back up…”

That’ll teach ‘em for using an actual valid placebo control – “I bet he’ll never make the mistake again of including the best possible placebo control in any future study of acupuncture that he undertakes…”

Shark-cam captures ocean motion – “It is as thick as your arm, gungy and smells disgusting – and it has just been caught on camera for what is thought to be the first time…”

KEO – “KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which will be launched in 2010 or 2011[1] carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it will reenter Earth’s atmosphere…”

Build an electric car – “With these six incredibly awesome resources, you too can be on your way to a gas free commute. Learn to design, wire, and build your own electric vehicle…”

How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names – “From iPod and BlackBerry to Twitter and Wikipedia, we take a look at the processes and people who came up with the names for these iconic tech products…”

thingiverse.com – “This is a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects. Let’s create a better universe, together!”

What Toyota knows that GM doesn’t – “OK, here’s a better question. How many hourly jobs has Toyota’s American production system laid off in the same time frame?”

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