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Click for the photo – Tropical storm leaves more than 115 dead in Central America – “At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported…” NHK Japan is Promising Functional Holographic TV by 2016 and Will Work With Korea to [...]
Autistic spectrum disorders are typically associated with boys, a fact which may make it harder for girls with autism to be diagnosed properly. In this episode, Molly and Cristen define autism and discuss how it manifests differently in boys and girls.
Pandora is an Internet radio service that provides personalized musical content, based on input from users and a unique analysis system called the Music Genome Project. Jonathan and Chris explain how both work in this episode.
When Joshua Norton returned to San Francisco following a disastrous business deal, he was a little bit loopy. Norton went to the newspapers and declared himself emperor of the United States. Here’s the crazy part: it worked. Tune in and learn more.
Watch closely, ‘Star Wars’ hologram TV is coming – THREE-DIMENSIONAL television may be the latest in home cinema, but it will soon seem so 2010. Scientists are already planning its successor — holographic television. On a holo-TV, images will be projected into the middle of a room as a “cloud” that can be enjoyed from [...]
1) Porsche Pickup Truck
2) Lufthansa’s “customers’ wishes integrated into design” of First Class A380 cabins
3) 5 Fantastic Notebooks and Sketchbooks for Designers
4) Applied physics
5) 40 Free PSD Files
6) 15 Modern And Creative Staircase Designs
7) Cardboard Tube Art
8 ) Proposed urban park designs
9) Gorgeous Shipping Container Art Studio in New York
If you take a look at How House Construction Works, you can see the standard building techniques used to build a house in the United States.
What if you would like to build a house for much less money, using natural materials that have less impact on the environment? You can see an example of these building practices in this video…
Did you know that some high schools give out a varsity letter in robotics these days? And that some schools send off their robotics teams to matches with a hearty pep rally? You get what you celebrate, says FIRST President Paul Gudonis, who was kind enough to talk with us the weekend of the FIRST Championship, held here in Atlanta, about a month ago. And this podcast, we were celebrating the sport of competitive robot building.
The main point of the game is to run through an environment without getting yourself killed. Unfortunately the environment is filled with things like buzz saws, swinging axes and deadly spikes…
Steganography — a method to hide information in plain sight — is starting to hit the mainstream as a marketing tool. The BBC has an article on the practice, which takes advantage of the human eye’s difficulty in seeing the color yellow to hide one image inside another. Cameras can pick out the image clearly and reveal it to the user.
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BrainStuff
- Thank You and Best Wishes to Marshall Brain
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Keep Asking
- Why can a 5 foot 8 inch man dunk a basketball on a 10 foot rim while some people of taller stature can’t?
- What happens to our sun once it runs out of fuel?
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Stuff Mom Never Told You
- Who invented the Christmas card?
- How the Kinsey Report Fueled Whiskey Sales
- How to Get Your Wedding Announcement into The New York Times
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
- Space Music: DJ Food and ‘The Search Engine’
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- Space Music: Jay-Z and Beyoncé to Film Music Video in Orbit
Stuff You Should Know
- The Southern Death Cult, the Maya and Georgia
- Deformed Baby Spider Brains
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The Stuff of Genius
CarStuff
- Why is NASA studying car safety?
- Tips for in-car Navigation Systems
- Tips for Using Bluetooth in the Car
How-to Stuff
- How to Swim with Dolphins (When Deep Water Terrifies You)
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PopStuff
- PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 36: Now Available in 3-D
- PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 35: Let’s do brunch!
- PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 34: Play it again, Sam
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Stuff to Change the World
- Who will own the Arctic?
- Obesity: The New Global Crisis
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
- Butch Cassidy: Should we read between the lines?
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