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“Contraband” Reveals Strange Souvenirs
by Deblina Chakraborty | September 24, 2010
One of the most annoying aspects of international travel is going through customs, particularly if you have an exotic taste in souvenirs. But a glimpse of Taryn Simon’s new photos series called “Contraband” may put your mind at ease.
Really? Airline seats are going to get smaller?
by Amanda Arnold | September 24, 2010
Here’s a good way to make 98 people really uncomfortable on a flight: Have them stand.
OK, OK; they wouldn’t exactly stand. But they wouldn’t exactly sit, either. Airline seat manufacturer Aviointerior’s newly launched SkyRider line features “stand-up seats” with just a 23-inch pitch.
Phreaking on the Phone and Wielding Swords and Lasers
by Jonathan Strickland | September 24, 2010
This week on TechStuff was special. Chris wrote about it the other day. But as is our custom, we give you guys a roundup each week of what we talked about so now you’ll get to hear my take on it. Our episode on Monday was all about phone phreaking, the precursor to computer hacking. Wednesday’s show was our Dragon*Con special and featured guest appearances by Sword and Laser cohosts Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont.
The new Mars rover “Curiosity” is unveiled, getting ready for launch in 2011
by Marshall Brain | September 24, 2010
NASA has unveiled it new Mars rover, named Curiosity. By rover standards, Curiosity is huge, about the size of a small car. You can see what it looks like and get a sense of its size in this unveiling video…
This documentary covers how your body clocks work, how we discovered them, how they affect behavior and health, etc. For example, medicines taken at the right time are more effective. By changing the time you exercise, you can get more benefits. And so on. Really interesting…
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Chivalry and Celibacy
by Molly Edmonds | September 24, 2010
This week’s episodes of Stuff Mom Never Told You were brought to you by the letter C (and I’m not just referring to Cristen). We talked about chivalry and celibacy, two big topics that we hope will start some good conversations — another C-word!
First on the docket was chivalry. While chivalry originally referred to a code of conduct followed by knights, the meaning of the word has evolved to denote any act of courtesy provided by a man to a woman.
Podcast Goodness: Octopi and Hypnosis
by Charles W. Bryant | September 24, 2010
How about a little podcast goodness wrap-up?
This week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast program, we covered something from nature and something from the mystical realms of the unknown. Well, sort of. Tuesday’s show was all about one our favorite sea creatures, the octopus. We’ve gotten some good feedback from other folks who also claim that the octopus is their favorite sea creature. We had n idea these amazing eight legged bags of ink were so darn popular. My favorite thing about the octopus?
In most cameras, you take a large image sensor (say 12 million pixels) and use those pixels to capture more detail across the X and Y axis of the image. What if you changed the lens on a camera so that it used all those pixels to capture more data about the Z dimension instead? That is the basic idea behind the plenoptic lens shown here…
Nor’easters are storm systems that frequently occur in the eastern United States during winter. In this episode, Marshall explains where Nor’easters get their name, how they work and why some Nor’easters are more powerful than others.
In 1632, Pope Urban VIII had the following words inscribed on the Pantheon: “The Pantheon, the most celebrated edifice in the whole world.” Tune in to find out why he wasn’t exaggerating — and why the Pantheon ranks among the Coolest Stuff on the Planet.
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