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The Enneagram Personality Test evaluates a person’s character based on nine different personality types and a geometric figure called an enneagram. Molly, Cristen and a special guest take a closer look at the enneagram and the nine types in this episode.
In 1795, a farm boy named Daniel McGinnis found a strange depression in the ground on an island in Nova Scotia’s Mahone Bay. As he and his friends began to dig, they realized they’d stumbled on much more than an ordinary hole. Tune in and learn more.
Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new weapon – “Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build…” Electric Motorcycles Buyer’s Guide – “When it comes to electric propulsion, motorcycle companies [...]
1) Mac Funamizu’s USB drive concept lets you see the data 2) UPS, Fold It, Tape It, Ship It 3) Creative & Modern Office Designs Around the World 4) Why Doesn’t Facebook Look Like This? 5) Printing With A Pencil Stub 6) The Future of Cars (in the past): Concept Cars of Yesteryear 7) Space [...]
As a boarding school alumna, I have an unhealthy love for the film “Dead Poets Society.” Maybe it’s because Welton Academy’s sprawling and picturesque grounds remind me of my own alma mater. Maybe it’s because I could relate to the all-encompassing control that the adults — parents, teachers, headmasters — held over the students’ lives and the way they ached to escape it. Above all else, though, I think it had more to do with a deep-down desire to have a teacher who’d rip the pages out of assigned textbooks and teach us how to speak our own truths. Or maybe we just wanted to jump on our desks and recite Walt Whitman until our throats throbbed.
At TechStuff, we’re preparing for our 200th episode and we’re getting excited. In the meantime, we published episodes 189 and 190 this week. Monday’s show was about the video game controller that shook up the industry just a few years ago: the Wii remote. On Wednesday, we explored the subject of cybernetics and asked ourselves if cyborgs were real or science fiction.
We run into all these different kinds of alcohol. Let’s look at the differences. First there’s the alcohol you drink, like whiskey, beer and wine. This is ethyl alcohol that is produced by yeast. The yeast eat some kind of sugar or starch and turn it into carbon dioxide and alcohol. In wine the process [...]
An attack by the 5th-century Sri Lankan King Kasyapa I’s armed men would have been frightening. But so would one by Sri Lankan honeybees — their stingers three times the length of their European counterparts.
Attacks of the latter sort have become a bit of a problem at the Sigiriya rock fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and one of Sri Lanka’s top tourist destinations.
Holy mackerel, people. What a crazy week it’s been here at the SYSK HQ. I can’t get into everything here, but let’s just say it’s been an exciting and terrifying time here for team SYSK. Don’t worry, nothing bad is going down, but there’s been a flurry of activity on all fronts. I love these weeks – it sure beats being bored!
One of the things going is the new launch of our Facebook and Twitter pages. I assume most of you visiting us here have signed up there, but if not please do. We’re having a good time interacting with everyone. Like we always say, the SYSK Army is the finest collection of people who have never met. Search Stuff You Should Know on Facebook and become a fan. You can follow our crazy Twitter feed @SYSKPodcast.
Moving on…
High Speed Stuff Wrap-up: Armored Cars and Road Construction
by Scott C. Benjamin | April 23, 2010
Well, it’s Friday once again. And you know what that means, right? It’s time for the High Speed Stuff podcast wrap-up! So let’s get this thing underway.
On Tuesday, Ben and I talked about armored cars. And while we started out with our focus on armored trucks, not military trucks, but rather the kind we often see in the city loading and unloading bags of cash and coins at local businesses, we eventually did bring the conversation back around to armored cars. Near the end of this episode, Ben even surprised me with a use for armored car technology that I hadn’t thought of prior to Tuesday. What exactly did he say?
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